She explores how a culture of “niceness” protects racism, how White progressives try to “out-woke” one another and why anti-racist education can sometimes create more “efficient “racists. We will see no further action needed because we see ourselves as outside the problem.”ĭiAngelo, an affiliate associate professor of education at the University of Washington in Seattle, makes other provocative claims throughout the book. “To the degree that we see ourselves as “not racist,” we are going to be very defensive about any suggestion to the contrary. “We are the ones – with a smile on our faces – who undermine Black people daily in ways both harder to identify and easier to deny,” she writes. “Nice Racism” is built around a startling claim: White progressives can cause the most daily harm to people of color. When you’re the only white person in the room.A preaching ‘genius’ faces his toughest convert.How an internet mob falsely painted a Chipotle employee as racist.What it’s like to be a white woman named LaKiesha.Her father was called ‘the most dangerous racist in America.’ She wants a different legacy for her son.“I was a nice White progressive, but what I was actually doing was both objectifying that couple by bringing the conversation to race immediately in a way I would never have if they were White and then subjecting them to all those racist comments and jokes all night long.” “I thought what I was doing was showing that I recognized how racist these things were, and I would never do them,” she says now. Well-meaning White liberals do this by casually dropping into conversations such comments as, “My grandchildren are biracial,” or “I don’t see color,” or “My best friend is Black.”ĭiAngelo thought at the time that her progressive credentials preempted any suggestion that she could be racist. She didn’t know it at the time, but DiAngelo was doing something she now calls “credentialing” – a conversational tactic White progressives sometimes use to show Black people they are not racist. She proceeded to tell the Black couple how racist her family was and spent the entire evening recounting every uncensored racist joke, story, and comment she could remember them making, despite her dinner companions’ growing discomfort. But she saw herself as a proud progressive and a feminist. When DiAngelo arrived at the restaurant, she was excited to see that the couple waiting for them at the table was Black.ĭiAngelo was a college student who had no Black friends and had rarely spent any time around Black people. A friend invited her to join a few friends of hers for dinner. One evening, Robin DiAngelo became a nice racist.ĭiAngelo, author of “White Fragility,” remembers the precise moment it happened.
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