Summary

The author states that to overcome the fallacies of individualism and color blindness, whites must think of themselves as a group. While people of color are often classified as a group, there are variations among their experiences. DiAngelo directs the narrative to examining the particular anti-Black sentiment among whites. The idea of "blackness" has always been necessary to supporting the idea of "whiteness" and its superiority. Scholars have examined the ways in which whites divorce themselves from negative feelings and project these feelings onto blacks. For example, slave masters referred to slaves, who were toiling all day, as lazy.

Affirmative action shows the white dislike of Blacks. This program is meant only to benefit qualified applicants, and it only applies to government agencies. However, white men often bristle at its very mention. Studies have shown that whites will begin to move out of a...