by dina gilio-whitaker | robin diangelo’s brilliant 2018 manifesto on white fragility was a much-needed truth bomb at a time when it’s more clear than ever that we are light years away from the “post-racial state.” perhaps most important about the book was its clarity that racism is systemic and structural, that no white people are immune from it, and that their fragility about it is based on a belief that they are being judged as bad people (the good-bad binary). in this second part of a two-part series (see part one here), i take on the similar but very different concept we in indian country call settler privilege and its companion, settler fragility. ...read more