Thank you for this article. I share the same pubisher for my book Some of My Friends Are...as DiAngelo and when I read her book I was dumbfounded that it did not meet the same rigorous standards of citations, checked sources, and logic to which my book was being held.

Most disappointing is that DiAngelo fails to cite all of the black psychologists (Janet Helms, Thomas Parham, William Cross) who have researched, written and taught the concept of racial stamina and white fragility for decades. Yet somehow she "coined" the word and is the originator of the concept. Who and what white people choose to believe about racism is telling. For many, this has become their bible for understanding racial dynamics and, as a psychologist, I find her advice perscriptive and damning to any kind of healthy progress in race relations.

What I find most surprising is that whites would buy into the notion of being white means that you are inherently and inextricably racist. What explains the 25 years of genocide and racism in Rwanda?

You have outlined well the fallacies in her theory adding to the ever growing list of criticisms of this book. Thanks again.

I have also written about the fallacies in an article recently updated from 2018 and posted on Medium. https://medium.com/@deborahlplummer/why-blacks-are-tired-of-hearing-about-white-fragility-and-why-it-matters-62c16ef9df35?source=friends_link&sk=958532ea2e2fa86c843c533503d64555.