White? Get Mighty Uncomfortable
Robin DiAngelo’s bestselling book White Fragility has provoked an uncomfortable but vital conversation about what it means to be white. As protests organized by the Black Lives Matter movement continue around the world, she explains why white people should stop avoiding conversations about race because of their own discomfort, and how 'white fragility' plays a key role in upholding systemic racism.
“Why do so many white people find it difficult to talk about race? It serves us not to speak about it. Racism is the status quo. It is the status quo of your society, of my society, of all western oriented white settler colonialist cultures. ”