by Robin DiAngelo
© 2018Chapter 1 - The Challenges of Talking to White People About Racism
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• The author feels "taken aback" about racism because she is White.
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• White people feel uncomfortable about questions about racism because they are already made comfortable that they are the best. I think they would feel guilty of racism, too.
Chapter 2 - Racism and White Supremacy
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• Biology makes the topic of race "easy," but I think some qualities are better and available from different races that aren't in others. I think that people get "high strung" at certain stereotypes of certain European ethnicities experiencing issues from different people and factors that others learn to live without, like Asians enjoy their intelligence and manners but also adventurism, while other races use them as a target, barring them off. It's like different families holding off other families. 😅
page 22
• Any race or ethnicity may have problems with another, but in the end I feel Asians or me as a European-seeming Eurasian get ignored in different ways that make the least sense, and it takes awhile to get that people such as me didn't really succumb or "buckle."
page 24
• Some people just say they aren't racist but I guess still cause problems indirectly to me.
page 30
• You can consider the term coined "white supremacy." Asians are thought to be respected, at least before, but you can't "coin" the situation as positive as for whites. However, all the other races seem to be more accepted, but they still are how they are and accepted.
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• Whites pretend not to be racist but usually are to me.
page 35
• It is my opinion that my life was ruined because I had more pressure to keep a 4.0, not a 3.9 or 3.8. People lost faith in me and didn't know what they were doing to me, when I didn't understand what they said they felt.
page 36
• I wouldn't say races segregate, it's only natural for Whites themselves to divide by Irish, Scottish, etc. I say some people who claim to be good and White are suggestive to Latinas, for instance, rather than finding their way out of the hate.
page 38
• Black people may try to segregate younger people who are not all White. I wonder how Native American indians took this, it seems they are only used as a weapon but unaccepted by Whites.
Chapter 4 - How Does Race Shape the Lives of White People?
• I'm guessing it shapes the lives of Americans more because it's true and documented that, for one thing, that people give their White babies to African Americans to nurse them so they're better. It's true I believe that African Americans are the bridge to Europe, at least that they are simply immigrants and didn't decide to move here. The people who dealt with Black people were already Americans, it seems. It's like White people benefiting from the Japanese. Some people even have babies mixed with White men and Black women, and they do look White, however experience the same racism, it seems, to me.
page 59
• Trump is an example of "White Fragility." (President of the U.S. recently.)
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• No one should be racist to people who are White just because it makes Blacks more jealous, like if they and others can see who is the "creme of the crop."
page 63
• It is my belief many White men hate Asians and want to be mean to them and use Latins as the scapegoat.
page 66
• I think that someone will always be around more White people at some point, so trying to be too nice might not make sense, after all Black people can be racist and corner you, I dunno but at least if you have some issue with your race, like being part Scottish, Asian, Native American indian, or even Black.
Chapter 5 - The Good/Bad Binary
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• Today, people hate Asians, I think, but they think the topic of racism should only be confined to death.
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• Something is funny how I feel people are racist to me even if they don't want to be and I am the one getting all the highest grades.
Chapter 7 - Racial Triggers for White People
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• Whites are "comfortable," and they use other races to get ahead in college and therefore in "real life."
Chapter 9 - White Fragility in Action
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• Before Generation XY grew up, they used to have terms like "the race card" where now you're not even supposed to talk about "Black Lives Matter."
Chapter 10 - White Fragility and the Rules of Engagement
page 123
• People just have a common bond to say don't talk to me about "race."
• I'm not stupid, I know that "Cancel Culture" came to fruition and that racism is indirect and "the" decision for where the US is at.
Chapter 12 - Where Do We Go From Here?
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• The author "reminds" us that in a previous chapter she said not to let your education on racism to come from "people of color."
• She says to "demand" education without having to take a college course! I'd like that.
• The author seems to want to say she is not wrong in how she is and therefore not racist, but she wants us to know that it might seem like I think I'm White like them and okay in race in other ways, when she seems to do the opposite.