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In the fourth chapter of White Fragility , Diangelo describes her own experiences as a white person and the privileges of white people. She compares the lives of white people to the lives of people of color, and how both sides of the race card prove different outcomes. She starts the chapter off by describing how she “belongs” in society because of her skin color and in part because of how she was raised by her parents. “If I were born in a hospital, regardless of the decade in which I was born, any hospital would be open to me because my parents were white” (51). I like how thereafter she describes the social hierarchy of white people compared to people of color. She writes that white people are given more opportunity and are treated better in almost any situation; the scenario she gave was the hospital. She claims that white people would receive better treatment and have more experienced healthcare workers attending to their needs than people of color would. Like I have mentioned bef...

In the second chapter of White Fragility , the author Robin Diangelo, emphasizes how white people are the superior race in society. I am not saying that I like the reality behind it, but that is just how things are in our world today, and how it has been for the longest time. White dominance has been around for the longest time, since our country gained its independence. Even before that, when European immigrants began colonizing North America. They brought over slaves from Africa through the Triangular Trade. Since then, white people have seen black people as a race inferior to them, and all other races to be inferior to them as well. There is something that Diangelo mentioned that caught my attention. She derives this quote from a historian, Ibram Kendi, who claims that “‘The beneficiaries of slavery, segregation, and mass incarceration have produced racist ideas of Black people being best suited for or deserving of the confines of slavery, segregation, or the jail cell. Consumers of...

The author of White Fragility , Robin Diangelo, emphasizes how “fragile” or how weak white society is when the topic is race. She writes that white people will get defensive in those situations. It is even more inspiring when the author herself is white, and she speaks openly about her own race. I like how Diangelo says that “My experience is not a universal human experience”; she is acknowledging the fact that her race does not get the same treatment as other races (Diangelo 7). She is acknowledging the fact that her race, the white race, will never truly understand what it is like to not be white. It is true when Diangelo writes that people will never really know what something really is or the meaning behind something until they take time to learn it. If they do not dwell into and get to know the ins and outs of that topic, they will be ill-informed and not fully understand it. This is seen when she states, “Unless we have devoted intentional and ongoing study, our opinions are nece...