Robin DiAngelo Is The “Vanilla Ice” Of Anti-Racism
<p>The week of June 21st 2020, a month after George Floyd was killed, an unprecedented <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2020/06/21/combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">eight of the top ten New York Times bestsellers</a> were about race.</p>
<p>The “racial reckoning” prompted by Floyd’s death was the first time many white people had thought about racism. It was the first time they’d questioned their attitudes and behaviour. It was certainly the first time they’d thought to read a book on the subject.</p>
<p>And so, as those newly race-conscious readers set out to learn about the black experience, they looked at those eight books…and chose the only one written by a white woman.</p>
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