Race and Racism: Tim Wise debates David Horowitz Tim Wise, in 2000, wrote a piece called Gore-Vey about Lieberman’s Vice-Presidential Candidacy with Al Gore and the Democratic Party. Some time afterwards, David Horowitz found it and wrote to Tim: ‘You’re a patronizing racist who thinks American blacks are inferior and can’t live by the same standards as everyone else. What would you think of Jews who blamed every community and individual failing on 2,000 years of persecution by Christians? You would probably understand conservative arguments better if you took time to listen instead of knee-jerk name-calling.’ Tim Wise replied, and an interesting debate ensued, about race and white privilege: The Wise/Horowitz Debate on Racism Gore-Vey: The original Wise Commentary