White fragility

This was an amazing book. I am a bit further along in the journey of self-reflection on my own racism than the book intends me to be, but it does eventually catch up to the gaps I've overlooked on my journey.

This book itself does make me look closer at the “discrete” ways white people talk about race, some I already knew (anti-immigration, urban vs suburban), and others I hadn't truly noticed before (test scores, good vs. bad neighbourhoods, good vs. bad schools).

This book helped provide pathing on “okay, so I am aware I have implicit bias about races; now what?” and start to question just what I am missing out on in my life because I am so surrounded by white people & white culture. Even the foods I consume that I think of as not-white are considered either white (Italian, French) or ‘honorary' white (Mexican).

This book has helped me further question the ‘agenda' that is unintentionally passed on: Why are black neighbourhoods considered more dangerous? Yes, they're poor, thanks to redlining. Yes, poverty and crime go hand in hand, but if an entire neighbourhood were poor & white, we wouldn't think that neighbourhood unsafe, even if the crime statistics matched a poor & black neighbourhood.

Definitely a lot of things to work on & fix in my own worldview.