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Anti-racist commentator Tim Wise perfectly explains how Trump is so successful in just three minutes. According to Wise, Trumps meteoric ascension to the top of the polls is just the latest in a centuries-long trend.

When we look around and we see today, in our politics, a rich white man telling working-class white people that their problem is brown people, Tim Wise begins, we need to understand the historical pedigree of that.

Wise explained that whiteness, a concept born in the 17th century, is a power structure that relies on dividing and conquering people of European descent. In the early days of the colonies, black slaves and indentured servants shared solidarity with white slaves and indentured servants, as both were property of elite landowners. Through this kinship, black and white slaves and indentured servants took part in various armed uprisings.

But those landowners soon realized that their grip on power could be solidified by giving white-skinned indentured servants power over black slaves by creating a race-based hierarchy.

They created this mentality that said, Youre now a member of the white race, youre on our team. Youre wearing our uniform. Now, youre at the end of the bench, you may not get in the game, but youre on our team,' Wise explained.

After creating the concept of whiteness, wealthy landowners deputized poor whites to go on slave patrols to police black slaves to quell any inkling of rebellion.

They didnt really give them any land or any real power, except the power to control people of color, which is why folks of color say and they are right in saying that modern policing traces to the system of slave patrols in slavery, Wise said.

Even though you might not have much, at least youre not black. At least youre not indigenous. At least youre not Mexican. At least youre not Chinese, working on the railroads to build the transcontinental economy, Wise said around the two-minute mark of the video. You may not have much, but you at least have, as W.E.B. DuBois said, the psychological wage of whiteness.'

Wise further contextualized Trumps popularity by alluding to how white landowners convinced poor whites in the South to fight for the cause of slavery in the Civil War, even though those people would have jobs if slavery ceased to exist.

Why would you do that? Why would I go fight for your property? Well because you told me that if I dont, these slaves are gonna take my job! No, fool, they got your job, thats the point! Wise said. If you gotta charge a dollar a day, and you can make them work for free because you own em, guess who got the gig, Jack? Not you!

Wise further illustrated how racism undermined the class struggle in the early days of the industrial revolution, when white union bosses discouraged black membership, even though it would have strengthened their bargaining position.

When you go out on strike, they cant replace your happy ass with the brown folk that you didnt want next to you in the first place. Because when they do replace you with them, then you will blame them, and not the elites, Wise said.

You see how this works? Its a trick. It has worked for hundreds of years and it is working on some folk right now, and it is our job to resist that with every fiber of our being, he concludes.

This is not the first time a Trump has come along, and it probably wont be the last. Thankfully, Tim Wise and so many other activists are there to peel the mask back on this hateful rhetoric.

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FREMONT - Sixteen-year-old Joni Holland is haunted by the memory of the night, about a year ago, when her younger sister attempted suicide.

The night before, she had done the same.

She felt horrible, wretched from the previous nights attempt, whenshe overdosed on pills.But Joni went downstairs with her mother, Darla Holland, to check on her sister. Nicole, then 14, was non-responsive.

She had overdosedon pills.Nobody knew what pills Nicole took, or how many. Or what they should do.

Nicole Holland, 14, of Fremont talks about the night she took pills and almost died from a suicide attempt.

Nicole had tried to contactthree friends before taking the pills, reaching one and telling her she was going to commit suicide.

But she didnt confide in her older sister.

That hurt the most because Ive always protected her when she was scared, Joni saidas she, Nicole, and Darla sat on a couch in their Fremont home. And it was like, I cant protect my baby sister. And thats the worst thing I ever went through my whole life, knowing that I could not be there for my baby sister and that I could not protect her and stop what was happening.

The impact of suicide or attempted suicide can be devastating on a persons family, loved ones and co-workers.

Tim Wise, site director of Fremonts Firelands Recovery and Counseling Services, said friends and loved ones feel guilty when someone they care about attempts or commits suicide.

They feel as though they should have recognized what was going on and helped prevent it.

The sad reality is, sometimes people dont share the pain of whats going on in their lives, Wise said.

Unanswered questions

A suicide, or an attempt, raises more questions than it answers.

Sitting with her daughters at their Fremont home, Darla Holland said that, as an adult, she gets depressed.

But shes never attempted suicide and cannot imagine burdening others with a suicide attempt.

Holland watched her youngest daughter, Nicole, go from being sleepy and disoriented to hallucinating and eventually non-responsive after swallowing the pills.

After her two daughters attempted to commit suicide, Darla Holland said she dumped out a lot of the pills in the household. There are no more cold medicines or antihistamines in the house, she said, only prescribed medications. (Photo: Molly Corfman/The News-Messenger)

She wasn't sure what Nicole had taken or how many pills her daughter had ingested.

So she assessed her for an hour, called poison control and then took her to the hospital.

Nicole said she just remembers waking up and being in wheelchair in the hospital. Someone asked her if she could walk and she said no,she didnt think she could move her legs. She was told she needed to walk, Nicole said.

Darla remembered that her daughter kept crawling out of bed at the hospital.

Joni said Nicole showed, non-verbally. that she knew her older sister was there.

Every time I touched her hand and said her name, she had looked at me with those big wide eyes and she looked at me lovingly and she knew who I was. Even though she was delusional, she knew who I was, Joni said.

Since Nicole's suicide attempt, the sisters and their mother say they've made changes in words they use to each other and how they speak and act.

Darla said she dumped out a lot of the pills in the household. There are no more cold medicines orantihistamines in the house, she said, onlyprescribed medications.

Its too high of a risk, Darla said.

Fremont Fire Chief David Foos lost one of his firefighters to suicide. "He and I were in contact every shift seeing how things were going," Foos recalled. (Photo: Molly Corfman/The News-Messenger)

Ripple effect

When someone commits suicide, law enforcement and emergency responders are often the first ones on the scene. They're the ones who have to give family members and loved ones the crushing news.

Fremont Fire Chief David Foos said people dont understand the deep impact and ripple effect a suicide has on immediate family and first responders.

You dont understand unless youve been through it, he said.

Fremont Police Det. Jason Kiddey said hes personally dealt with suicidal subjects and has been to a lot of suicide scenes. Within the past year, Kiddey said he responded to a suicide where a man took his life with a firearm.

It can stay with you over the years, he said.

Its tough for officers to give death notifications to family members under those circumstances, Kiddey said.

The family often demands to know why their loved one would end their lives.

Foos still thinks about the firefighter in his department and his cousin, a former Fremont police officer, who committed suicide. He also had a good friend commit suicide.

The circumstances were different and the suicides took place several years apart, but Foos knows the anniversaries of their deaths and has a hard time on those days.

With the three people he knew and had close ties to, Foos wishes they had reached out to him or somebody else for help.

If any one of them had said, Hey, I could use a hand, people would have been jumping up to help them, Foos said.

Assistant Fire Chief Dean Schneider got a frantic phone call from his mother one night. She said Schneiders uncle, who lived in Westlake, was in a Lowe's parking lot in Sandusky and had threatened to take his own life. Molly Corfman/The News-Messenger

An uncle's desperate act

Assistant Fire Chief Dean Schneider got a frantic phone call from his mother one night.She said Schneiders uncle, who lived in Westlake,was in a Lowe's parking lot in Sandusky and had threatened to take his own life.

The uncle used to stop in atthe Fremont Fire Departments central headquarters all the time, Schneider said, and never gave any indication that something was wrong.

Schneider's mothers called the Perkins Township Police Department about her brother in law, who ran into an outdoor storage shed when he saw police coming.

Before an officer could reach him, there was a loud bang. His uncle had committed suicide.

So my mom calls me back in tears, sobbing that Uncle Bruce is gone, Schneider said.

What Schneider knows of his uncles final hours is limited.

The uncle, who had four siblingsincluding Schneiders father,went to a funeral in Port Clinton, then made his own funeral arrangements for reasons never completely clear to the family, Schneider said.

Schneiders uncle returned to Westlake and had an argument with his wife about making the funeral arrangements.

He decided to drive to Sandusky, and stopped on the way to buy a gun at a gun store.He left a note on the seat of his car.

That was it, Schneider said.

Schneider said he doesnt know if his uncle had health issues.

When he came through Fremont, Uncle Bruce used to drop off spice samples at the fire department, Schneider said, and he and other firefighters used the spices for cookouts and barbecues.

It was rough on everybody, just because I think it was so unexpected. To my knowledge, my uncle never talked to anyone about it, Schneider said.

He and the rest of the family were left to cope with the questions of why.

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ABOUT THE SERIES

Although many people don't want to talk about it, suicides and attempted suicides are a grim reality and a growing problem in Sandusky and Ottawa counties. Hotlines receive desperate calls for help every day, and emergency responders are dealing with increasing numbers of people on the verge of taking their own lives.

For this three-part series, The News-Messenger spoke to dozens of residents, mental health officials and police officers to shine a light on the dark and often overlooked crisis of suicide.

Help with mental health/suicideissues

NAMI crisis hotline 800-826-1306

Mental Health & Recovery Board of Erie and Ottawa Counties- (419) 627-1908/1-800-627-4999

Mental Health& Recovery Services Board of Seneca, Sandusky and Wyandot Counties- (419) 448-0640

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On March 14 at 4:00 p.m. Dr. Tim Wise will deliver the 2017 Last Lecture in Foundation Hall.

Biography:

Dr. Tim Wise is a professor of management and marketing and is the chair of the Department of Management, Marketing, and Information Systems. Dr. Wise was born in Panama City, Florida, but spent most of his youth in northwest Louisiana. He attended Louisiana Tech University where he earned a BA and an MA in education. After teaching in the public school system for two years, he returned to Louisiana Tech and earned an MBA and a DBA in business. His major was Management and his minors were Marketing and Industrial Psychology. He joined the faculty of Southern Arkansas University in 1993 as an Instructor of Marketing. He has taught a variety of classes but now teaches mostly organization theory, entrepreneurship, and strategic management courses. Dr. Wise has had a lifelong interest in written and visual storytelling and has been interested in theology and philosophy since his teens. He started a studio/publishing company, Professor Theophilus Emporium of Imagination, Inc., in 2002 and independently published his first novel, Intrepid Force, in 2003. In 2007, he enrolled part-time in the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is scheduled to receive an MDiv with a specialization in Christian Apologetics (a branch of theology and philosophy) in May 2017.

A reception to which all are invited will follow the lecture.

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The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion sponsored its first social justice equity lecture last Thursday featuring Tim Wise, anti-racist educator and social justice activist.

We need those of us who are white to be willing to go and read the words of and really listen to people of color when they talk about race, Wise said. Its fine to come to this talk, (but) the question is are we really listening when people of color say the same things?

In order to involve people in the social justice conversation who are not already, you just keep having the conversation until people get dragged and compelled to come, according to Wise.

Im of mixed mind on this, but obviously, the more you have the conversation, the more likelihood that people will be caught up in the web of that conversation at some point, Wise said. My mixed mind piece of this is look, I want everyone to come and engage in this discussion, but I also realize that sometimes preaching to the choir isnt always a bad thing. I think the more that we practice and the more we engage, the better well get at it.

Wise went on to state that he doesnt necessarily want the adversary in the room all of the time.

I dont want him to know what Im planning. I dont want him to necessarily know what were thinking, Wise said. So Id love for more people to be engaged and have this hard conversation, but it cant be forced and in the meantime, we got to talk to the ones who come and we got to build with the ones who come.

Make America Great Again, which was President Trumps 2016 campaign slogan, is coming from people who think the past was this wonderful splendid place, ignoring how not splendid it was for millions of their countrymen and countrywomen, according to Wise.

Lets be real, it isnt just the past we (white Americans) have a problem with, Wise said. Its the truth, the complexity of the past.

According to Wise, history is important because too often when we talk about race and racism, white Americans in particular are extraordinarily quick to look at people of color, who talk about the past and say Why do you have to bring that up? That was a long time ago. Why cant we move on? Why cant we get over it?

If you dont understand what happened yesterday, metaphorically speaking or last year...its very hard for you to look at whats going on this week and understand it fully because the past and the present are so inextricably connected, Wise said.

Audience members learned many things about the history of racism in America from the social justice lecturer, including redlining.

A lot of the history was kind of new to me, said Chloe Soetaert, senior graphic design major. I didnt know a lot about the redlining thing. It was kind of one of those things where you kind of assume that theres something going down, but he explained it more thoroughly and like he said, its really important to learn the history.

Redlining was a very common practice for decades and it was perfectly legal until 1968 when the Fair Housing Act was passed and even after that, they continued in sort of indirect ways, according to Wise.

Banks would take maps of neighborhoods and they would put them up on the wall in the loan office, Wise said. They would take a red marker and they would draw a line around the black community and anybody who lived in the boundaries of that red line would not be able to get a loan. As a result, that meant that certain neighborhoods, particularly in the cities, were starved of capital. Essentially, they just werent able to build wealth.

President Allison Garrett attended the event as well and said that she was very grateful that Wise came to ESU.

He clearly has such a command of facts in such an engaging way of sharing what sometimes is a hard message, but that we needed to hear, Garrett said. Im just excited that Emporia State could have someone of his caliber in to present and hope that we can have similar terrific presenters in for the future.

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is scheduled to send students to the University of Texas for the Big XII Conference on Black Student Government Feb. 16 thru 19.

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Campus Conversation: Tim Wise speaks on race the Inkwell While some consider this controversial, Wise has authored nine books on race and produced the crowd-funded 2013 documentary White Like Me, which explores privilege and racism through experiences in his family and community in Tennessee.

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