October 20, 2019
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
- race
- racism
- white fragility
- white privilege
- white supremacy culture
The FCU delegates for last year’s UU General Assembly (i.e., the offsite delegates and I) all learned a lot from a workshop on the topic of “white fragility” co-presented by Robin DiAngelo (author of “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism”) and Aisha Hauser, a UU religious educator. Why is it so often unsettling for white people to talk about race?