Yeah. This piece definitely has the right of it. Your students are in good hands. I’m another white person who wants to contribute to the conversation, but then I become another white person pontificating. I agree that White Fragility is not some sort of golden calf, but it probably is as good a place to start as any. Tell this to a white person?

“The tendency has really been, insofar as this was possible, to dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing.”
— Baldwin

This is a brilliant quote, of course, but…the average white person is going to just start giggling or blustering or shutting down in some way. At least DiAngelo has found some way of fixing us wypipo in our discomfort long enough for some self-realization to start to sink in. If a white person needs another white person to tell them to listen to Black voices, and that’s the beginning of the journey, then okay. I don’t think we’re in disagreement on this?