BOOK REVIEW: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

This book can be hard to listen to, because it will challenge your mind to think about your racism. Yup, that's right, I said it: your racism. Whether we want to believe we are enlightened or not, Western culture is rooted in white superiority, and every white person is complicit within the system.

Some examples DiAngelo uses throughout the text forces white persons to honestly take a look at their behaviors and words. Even a comment that a white person may think is innocuous could have negative cultural roots.

And lastly, the section about how to talk to white people about their racism was not only hard to hear (because we need to be brutally honest and remember that most people think that the only people who are racist are bad people), but so important to understand why people get upset when they are called out on their behavior, and what to do about it.

Oh, and apologize for your behavior.

I cannot give this book enough props for helping me navigate the world of racism. And, my short reviews (because that's my specialty) don't even begin to give a glimpse into all I learned.

RATED: 5 Stars

NOTE: I bought and paid for the audio book on my own, and did not receive any compensation for this review.