Seeing White Fragility (RISE District)

"Most white Americans don’t realize our culture protects us from having to truly confront racial inequality, which gives us a major blind spot when it comes to understanding what the reality of systemic racism is for people of color or how complicit we may be in their oppression. We think of racism as something “bad people” engage in, instead of something we’re conditioned into from childhood. As a result, when indirect, unconscious, or less obvious forms of racism and discrimination are exposed for what they are, it challenges our beliefs about ourselves and our world, provoking our own blind spots when it comes to race. And more often than not…well, let’s just say we don’t handle it well."

This video provides a crash course in how to identify and overcome white fragility in order to a) improve our racial literacy, b) become better allies, and c) amplify black and brown voices in the interest of achieving equality and justice for people of color.

Source material: Diangelo, Robin. "White Fragility," The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 2011. Read the full article here: http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/view/249

Видео Seeing White Fragility (RISE District) канала RISE District