This is a book that everyone needs to read. And I mean EVERY ONE! I wish I had a pocket-sized Robin DiAngelo that I could defer to when I’m feeling overwhelmed by white people’s feelings about racism.

DiAngelo does a great job of breaking down how Western society deals with race - it doesn’t. Instead it chooses to ignore it because bringing up racism...is racist? No, because the rhetoric of color-blindness has made our society believe acknowledging race is in itself racist! When really keeping quiet is white supremacy’s next evolution to protect itself.

White Fragility is very accessible and a good first text for white people who want to do better, learn, and unlearn. I’d also recommend this to non-black POC who want the tools to address their own anti-blackness. As a lot of the WF talk applies to us and our communities as well. As for the other content, it can give us the language to better handle WF when we encounter it in real life and we don’t have any white accomplices around us.

I listened to this book on Audible. While the narrator isn’t great (my partner and mom both compared her to a robot), I think her tone was a conscious choice so readers could listen without being distracted by any inferred accusations and therefore end up stuck in a shame hole. I also bought a hard copy on back order recently so I plan on going through again with a highlighter in order to build a reference guide.

Definitely a book any anti-racist needs to read.