Đức Nhật's Reviews > White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

4,25 stars ... What a great time to be a person of color.

I'm slowly getting myself into the world of social justice. The race issues have been brought up plenty times in other books that I've read, as a form of struggle for the main characters. Now, it has its spotlight in this nonfiction. The ideas that the author presented are easy to absorb and I gained a lot of first-hand knowledge of the issue.

This book took an approach to the reason why DiAngelo found it so hard to talk to other white folks about race issues, also attacking some common defense from them. "I don't see color", "I value hard work", ... While these people show that the racism issue is no longer lying in an individual's behavior, it shows itself in an unconscious form. The effect it has on POC is systemic and drastic, can only be seen through statistics and big data collection.

In an attempt to prove that the whites are non-racist themselves, they avoid the main conversations about helping POC, about the hardship, the challenges, the obstacles. They shake off their shoulder the responsibilities to solve the racism issues, thus keeping the POC oppressed.

The way the author handled some part in the book is pretty weak, IMO. I would like to dig more about the ways POC keeps being oppressed, e.c.t. But overall a wholesome read.