Nguyen,Mary_28432

In Chapter Six of White Fragility, the author Robin Diangelo makes the claim that every individual race of color has experienced their own kind of persecution that is different from the rest, and that no race will really understand what other races have experienced unless they have experienced the same thing. She makes the claim that black people and all people of color have a small amount of privileges, and that when a privilege is “given” to them, it should not be taken for granted. I agree with her claim. In a position for a job, the manager or supervisor is most likely going to choose the white person over the black person, even if the black person is more experienced and skilled. I also like how she mentions that each ethnic group in a race are not the same; they may be similar, but they each ethnicity itself is unique; I like how she confirms this comparing the Chinese and Japanese cultures. I agree when Diangelo says that the black race is the most hated race by the whites, an...

In the fifth chapter of White Fragility, Robin Diangelo points out a very unique factor: the good/bad binary. The good/bad binary is not just specific to race. It is a broad idea that can be discussed in any moral situation; it relates to anything pertaining to judgment really. I like how Diangelo pointed out an instance from the past, when it was okay for white people to treat black people harshly: “… it was socially acceptable for white people to openly proclaim their belief in their racial superiority” (Diangelo, 71). This was before the Civil War; and during the Civil War, when white people saw the violence brought against blacks and said it was not okay to treat them that way, they saw it as immoral. They became the racists. The Southerners became the racists, because they were for slavery, while the Northerners were against it. What I am understanding from this piece of historical evidence is that things are okay to do or not okay to do based on what the white people said. When D...