Published: February 16, 2019
Robin DiAngelo’s bestselling book, White Fragility, explains how racial inequality is perpetuated in the US. Here she tells of her mission to promote truly open minds
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Why is it so hard for white people to talk about racism? It is a question posed by the white academic Robin DiAngelo, whose book White Fragility has now spent seven months hovering at the top end of the New York Times bestseller list.
“The problem with white people,” she says, “is that they just don’t listen. In my experience, day in and day out, most white people are absolutely not receptive to finding out their impact on other people. There is a refusal to know or see, or to listen or hear, or to validate.”
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