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In Chapter Ten of White Fragility, Robin Diangelo addresses white fragility again, but this time, chronologically with steps of how the concept comes out to play. The author points out the fact that she has been working with white people for a long time and hosting workshops that she sees a continuous pattern at hand. She seems to be confident that she figured out the way of the whites when it comes to giving them feedback about racism and anything regarding race. “To not give [feedback] at all” is the claim she makes to not trigger white fragility (Diangelo 123). Therefore, she is making a statement that you cannot prevent white fragility if race is mentioned. Race is the trigger of white fragility, what causes the whites to be sensitive and react so defensively. So do not give them feedback when it comes to the topic. Then, Diangelo goes on to list more rules if someone plans to offer a white person feedback on racism. And she is very specific about it too, probably because she knows...

In Chapter Nine of White Fragility , Robin Diangelo outlines how white fragility comes to be. In doing so, she uses a plethora of real-life experiences that she saw fit to describe the concept of white fragility and how it plays out. I like how she begins the chapter with one of her experiences at a workplace. She points out how a man, when he once heard the term “white” for Diangelo’s workshops, no longer wanted to continue with the workshop at his workplace. I am really curious as to why he got offended by the term, because is white not the superior race? What is wrong with hearing that a workshop talks about white when majority of the workers are white? Diangelo goes on to describe more situations where white people do not really pay attention to minority races or where minorities feel their lives do not matter. Throughout all of her experiences, she sees a recurring pattern within a workplace that has a majority of white people that she wanted to point out. When Diangelo points out...

Chapter 8 of White Fragility by Robin Diangelo describes how white fragility comes about as a result of life experiences and what white people were taught at an early age. I believe this to be true as I do think that whatever you learn at an early age and how you were raised really affects how you will live when you grow older. What you were taught as a foundation and what you have seen from experience during your childhood greatly influences your opinions and decisions in the future. Because habits are hard to break, if you are exposed to certain things and see certain things at a young age, you may not be able to unsee it, and even sometimes children will follow in those footsteps. Not everybody was raised in a caring home or had a roof over their head, so for each individual, these experiences are different. But in this case, Diangelo compares these childhood experiences to race. She quotes Debian Marty, a professor of communications: “As in other Western nations, white children bo...