ROME — Robin DiAngelo, Woke White Writer white fragilitycalled Michelangelo’s painting of the Creation of Man in the Sistine Chapel a symbol of “white supremacy.”
recent D’Angelo talked On Jaron Johnson’s podcast, Not Your Ordinary Parts, he slammed Michelangelo’s depiction of God as creating Adam as a “white supremacist.”
“The single image I use to capture the concept of white supremacy is Michelangelo’s God creating humans in the Sistine Chapel,” she says. Said“You know, God is in the clouds and there are many angels reaching out and touching him. I don’t know who it is, David or what, but God is white and David and the angels are white.”
“It’s the perfect blend of white supremacy and patriarchy, right?” she added.
“I was raised Catholic, so I saw a lot of images like that from my childhood,” D’Angelo continued. “So I was sitting in church and I looked up and I saw these images. I don’t think to myself, ‘God is white,’ but in many ways that’s the power.” There’s no need for that. God is a reflection of me. ”
FILE/The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Author Robin DiAngelo during an interview on June 17, 2020 (NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty)
According to DiAngelo’s website, her research interests include whiteness studies and critical discourse analysis, which traces “how whiteness is reproduced in everyday narratives.”
In his introduction to DiAngelo, Jaron Johnson defines the expression white fragility as “when a white person’s whiteness is emphasized or mentioned, or when his or her racial worldview is challenged.” He said he coined the term to mean “any defensive reaction, regardless of whether it is targeted or not.”
D’Angelo beamed and told Johnson, “You shot it really well!”
writing for new york post On Wednesday, Ricky Schrott said: “DiAngelo was an unknown white studies professor at the University of Washington whose 2018 book, White Fragility, was published in 2020. new york times Bestseller list after George Floyd murder. ”
“Her message that all white people are inherently racist ignited a scourge of white liberal self-flagellation that made her immensely rich,” Schlott added, reportedly DeAngelo reportedly made more than $700,000 a year from speaking engagements and workshops in the year after George Floyd’s assault. Murder, except for royalties from her book.
D’Angelo’s “rise to anti-racist superstardom has been extraordinary,” Schrott observes. “Liberal white women wagging their fingers at other liberal white people, monetizing their guilt, and doing almost nothing to actually combat racism or improve the lives of black people in America. See you.”
