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A review by ohsoreads
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
5.0
Wow, this was quite an intense read. I picked this book up for the first time on 13 September and have put it aside multiple times. It was partly because I borrowed this as a ebook so reading off my phone was quite a pain but it was also because it was quite content heavy & provocative. I decided to give this book a go because there has been a lot more news coverage on white supremacy & it’s piled up flaws. Hence I wanted to educate myself & find out more about it.
Whilst reading, I found myself backtracking my own experiences to recall if in any way I’ve been racist as well. If maybe in some ways I might have acted or said something that might’ve hurt other persons of colour. And if I did, I want to understand what I’ve done wrong & learn to make amends. Indeed I’ve learnt a whole handful of advices & read many scenarios, my reading journey has been fruitful. I feel much more conscious now, in a good way; I would want to take a step further and right the wrongs as and when I can as well. No doubt I’m not a white person, but being a Singaporean Chinese, I definitely have received privileges that align with what the whites have received; ease in employment and so much more. Which is why, I would want to first share this book & next talk to more people of colour, starting with ones closest to me to understand from their pov. But racism has been an ongoing discussion for decades if not centuries, it can’t be a one-person effort to see change. Thankfully the generation now is vocal about all these, I think it’ll (hopefully) make a visible improvement in the time to come.
Whilst reading, I found myself backtracking my own experiences to recall if in any way I’ve been racist as well. If maybe in some ways I might have acted or said something that might’ve hurt other persons of colour. And if I did, I want to understand what I’ve done wrong & learn to make amends. Indeed I’ve learnt a whole handful of advices & read many scenarios, my reading journey has been fruitful. I feel much more conscious now, in a good way; I would want to take a step further and right the wrongs as and when I can as well. No doubt I’m not a white person, but being a Singaporean Chinese, I definitely have received privileges that align with what the whites have received; ease in employment and so much more. Which is why, I would want to first share this book & next talk to more people of colour, starting with ones closest to me to understand from their pov. But racism has been an ongoing discussion for decades if not centuries, it can’t be a one-person effort to see change. Thankfully the generation now is vocal about all these, I think it’ll (hopefully) make a visible improvement in the time to come.