



"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.
