For white people, their identities rest on the idea of racism as about good or bad people, about moral or immoral singular acts, and if we're good, moral people, we can't be racist - we don't engage in those acts. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
One of the most important misunderstandings for white people to get over to move forward is this idea that racism is a good-bad proposition - that if we're good we can't be part of it, that being uncomfortable means you're… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
We whites who position ourselves as liberal often opt to protect what we perceive as our moral reputationsrather than recognize or change our participation… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society... Maintaining… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
White people are very wily when it comes to race. We will do everything that we can to get out from under the idea… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
This is what I have learned: Any white person living in the United States will develop opinions about race simply by swimming in the… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
A fundamental but very challenging part of my work is moving white people from an individual understanding of racism - i.e. only some people… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
For a lot of white people, just suggesting that being white has meaning will trigger a deep, defensive response. And that defensiveness serves to… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
Like a nontechnical user trying to understand a technical problem, our racial illiteracy limits our ability to have meaningful conversations about race. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
“It has taken me many years of intensive study and practice to be able to recognize and articulate how I am shaped by being… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
