![]() Racism is what happens when you back one group's racial bias with legal authority and institutional control. Nice, white people who really aren't doing anything other than being nice people are racist. ![]() "Because the forces of comfort are quite seductive." "We've got to start making it uncomfortable and figuring out what supports we're going to put in place to help us continue to be uncomfortable," she says. ![]() To sustain the momentum of these protests, DiAngelo says, it must become uncomfortable for white people to continue to benefit from racist systems. The status quo in the United States is racism, DiAngelo says, and "it is comfortable for me, as a white person, to live in a racist society." ![]() ![]() "This is going to be a process."ĭiAngelo is the author of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.The book came out in 2018 and is back on the bestseller lists as streets fill with protesters calling for an end to police violence against black people. "It's a little bit like saying 'I want to be in shape tomorrow'. White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo says the question white people should be asking themselves is not have I been shaped by race, but how have I been shaped by race? Above, protesters demonstrate in New York on June 1.įor white people who have just recently recognized their own complicity in America's racist systems and are looking to "fix" that - it's not going to happen overnight. ![]()
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