A Simple Thought Experiment Can Tell if Black Lives Really Matter to You

At the very least it can demonstrate how racism shapes our perception of human worth

Tim Wise
AfroSapiophile
Published in
8 min readJan 5, 2023

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Image: 18th-Century Enslaving Shackles from Tamale, Northern Ghana, Wikimedia Commons

This is a thought experiment in two parts.

Here’s the first.

It’s 1942, and a small group of Jewish prisoners at Dachau have stolen some surplus…

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Tim Wise
AfroSapiophile

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)