'There Is No Neutral': 'Nice White People' Can Still Be Racist : NPR"For white people who have just recently recognized their own complicity in America's racist systems and are looking to "fix" that — it's not going to happen overnight." says author Robin DiAngelo...the author of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.
The status quo in the United States is racism, DiAngelo says, and "it is comfortable for me, as a white person, to live in a racist society."
To sustain the momentum of these protests, DiAngelo says, it must become uncomfortable for white people to continue to benefit from racist systems.
..."Nice, white people who really aren't doing anything other than being nice people are racist. We are complicit with that system. There is no neutral place."...
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