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Chapter 4 examines racial patterns that shape white fragility and influence the lives of white people. It highlights forms of white privilege I had never considered and how they affect access to opportunity. While no one chooses to be socialized into racism, none of us are exempt. The work now is recognizing how this conditioning appears in our daily lives and responses when challenged.

Chapter 3 explores racism after the civil rights era. Though newer generations seem committed to equality, racism has adapted to such cultural changes. Color blindness, the co-opted idea that people should be judged by character not race, lets white people ignore the ongoing impact of race. Now subtler and coded, it attempts to avoid legal and moral consequences, yet pretending race does not matter changes nothing.

“Today we have a cultural norm that insists we hide our racism from people of color and deny it among ourselves, but not that we actually challenge it. In fact, we are socially penalized for challenging racism.”