White fragile This week, writer Robin DiAngelo made headlines due to shocking information leaked in a video interview posted to YouTube.
Until she was 34 Social Justice Advisor Explain that she is color blind.
As you know, carelessness has been hailed as a virtue for decades.
But recently, morality has gone upside down.
Gone are the days of preaching the American dream of Martin Luther King Jr. Judging by their skin color.
In our new age, we are told Must see the color.
Robin admitted, however, that she didn’t care for more than thirty years.
Perhaps the most interesting part of her confession is that she has been colorblind after walking on the earth for nearly thirty years… Herself.
The interviewer opened a can of Caucasian worms:
“Tell me about when you first realized you were white.”
Robin’s response:
“It’s a very abstract feeling. To be honest, I believe I was about 34 years old.”
Label her a late bloomer:
“I have a college education. I am a parent. Someone handed me Peggy McIntosh’s article. I read through the list and I have an out-of-body experience. I can tell you where I sit. I will never forget that moment when I suddenly thought,’Oh, my God. I’m white. I feel so pale that I remember that I was hesitating to go out. I don’t want to go out. Because everyone can. Seeing that I am white.”
Whether she grew up without a mirror or never glanced in the right direction, it must be shocking.
As for Peggy McIntosh’s article, Robin probably refers to the 1988 “White Privilege and Male Privilege: Reading Personal Descriptions of Letters Through Women’s Research Work,” or its shorter 1989 iteration,”White Privilege: Open the invisible backpack. “
At least in the latter, Peggy provides 26 checkpoints.
Here is half:
- I can go shopping by myself most of the time. I am very relieved that I will not be stalked or harassed.
- If I want to, I can definitely find a publisher for this article on white privilege. Stories and information about people who look like me will be valued and supported.
- I can go to music shops to find music that represents my race, supermarkets to find staples that conform to my cultural traditions, and barber shops to find people who can cut my hair.
- Whether I use checks, credit cards, or cash, I can count on my skin tone to not violate the appearance of financial reliability.
- I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who may not like them or who may hurt them because of their appearance, voice when they speak, or where they are from.
- I can swear, Or wearing second-hand clothes, or not replying, or being late at the meeting and no one attributed these choices to the bad morals of my race, poverty or illiteracy.
- I can speak Open to a group of powerful white people in public, without putting my race on trial, being told that I was playing race cards, or being punished for being too emotional or angry.
- I’ve never Asked to speak on behalf of everyone in my ethnic group.
- If the traffic police pull me over, or if the IRS reviews my tax return, I can be sure that I have not been singled out because of my race.
- I can go home from most meetings of my organization and feel a little constrained instead of being isolated, untimely, outnumbered, unheard of, distanced or scared.
- I can choose public accommodation without worrying about my race being inaccessible or being abused in the place I choose.
- I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help, my race will not be against me.
- If my day, week, or year is not going well, I don’t need to ask whether every negative event or situation is racially colored.
Peggy was still nearby-she gave one away Ted Talk in 2012.
polite Tednet:
Many of us believe that we live under an elite rule, deserve what we have, and sympathize with those who have less. But this is not the case: academic and activist Peggy McIntosh stated that because of skin color, whites have gained first-hand and sustained advantages, while people of color suffer the same arbitrary disadvantages.
Obviously, she opened the door to a saturated world for the 34-year-old Robin.
Although the future New York Times Bestseller The writer seemed to be humiliated that day, which is a valuable lesson.
from Washington Liberty Lighthouse last year:
DiAngelo’s customers, [per] Her websites include Amazon, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Unilever, and the YMCA.According to reports, DiAngelo charges up to $15,000 [each] session — For example, an appearance in March 2019, Costs University of Kentucky $12,000, And a telephone charge of $5 per minute. The most recent virtual event can cost up to $175 per ticket. DiAngelo said that the eight to ten private events she participates in each month can net her at least $1.5 million a year. …
The publisher of DiAngelo says [White Fragility] 1.6 million copies have been sold, and 1 million copies have been sold this year alone. Taking into account the conservative 8% royalties, this means that this book made DiAngelo more than $2 million.
Regarding justice, she has almost no peers: according to her description of racial enlightenment, she is a model citizen on both sides of our culture. When color blindness is a virtue, she is completely ignorant of color so that she does not notice her own.Now the opposite is glorious, she is so adapted to the game that she Literally wrote this book on her.
In addition, her account depicts a Saul vs. Paul-Similar conversion.
Despite such heroism, Robin was not the first person who didn’t understand his race until his later years.
You may remember that the honor belongs to other people:
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