Exploiting the White Liberal Guilt Complex
Posted by John Engelman Raceology, April 2020 Edited by Independent Thinker Robin Diangelo, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism , Beacon Press, Boston, 2918, 168 pp., $16.00 (paperback) In White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism , Robin Diangelo claims that we whites do not want to talk about our racism because we do not want to admit that we are racists. Robin Diangelo expects whites to be forever saying the secular equivalent of “Forgive me Father for I have sinned.” The civil rights legislation that we passed and the anti-poverty programs designed specifically to help blacks that we finance with our tax money were not nearly enough to absolve us of our guilt. The fact that blacks still tend to be less prosperous than we are is proof of our sinful nature. Black problems are my fault, my own fault, my own most grievous fault. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa....