The NBC News “Think” page offers a preview by author Robin
DiAngelo, of “White Fragility: Why It Is so Hard for White People to Talk About
Racism”, from Beacon Press (June, 2018).
The NBC article is titled “White people are still raised tobe racially illiterate. If we don’t recognize the system, our inaction will uphold
it.” Then she offers the tagline, “the question is not whether I have been
shaped by the forces of racism, it’s how I’ve been shaped by them.”
She criticizes the libertarian interpretation of the story
of individual black successes, like Jackie Robinson, as a false user of
meritocracy. In the movie “42”, Jackie Robinson finally plays for the Brooklyn
Dodgers when “white people” let him play – and some road games were actually
canceled because of Robinson in the movie at first.
The problem is, what is someone to do individually if asked
to make up for his own use of “privilege”. This complicates the idea of individual
karma tremendously.
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