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I strive to be less white.

—Robin DiAngelo

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If nothing else, studying, practicing and applying in real time the white fragility flow chart can help reduce the unintentional harm we well-intended white folk inevitably cause people of color every time we—against our best wishes and highest values—“go white.” I myself return to the study and practice of this chart again and again when I go white, applying it when I am mindful enough to remember to, and holding myself accountable, with self-compassion, when I am not. Every time we white folk can catch and check our impulse to go white and instead choose humility and curiosity over denying and defending (and thus reinforcing racism and white supremacy) interrupts and begins to untrain 400+ years of white conditioning. It is my experience that we white folk cannot study and practice this skill enough.

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→ White fragility flow chart ←

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