White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

by Robin DiAngelo

Race is a condition. A disease. A card. A plague. Original sin.

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The identities of those sitting at the tables of power in this country have remained remarkably similar: white, male, middle- and upper-class, able-bodied. Acknowledging this fact may be dismissed as political correctness, but it is still a fact. The decisions made at those tables affect the lives of those not at the tables. Exclusion by those at the table doesn’t depend on willful intent; we don’t have to intend to exclude for the results of our actions to be exclusion.