So far, I highly recommend this book. From the Amazon Website: The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

Also from Amazon: In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.

I'm looking forward to finishing the book, as I have often wondered how to constructively talk with other white people about racism.

It starts with dividing humanity into “us vs them”. Then we make comparisons and judgments. “We” see that the “others” have valuable characteristics that are superior to our own and “we” begin to fear that “they” will overpower and annihilate our group. This calls for aggressive promotion of our own group.

The truth is that people are about the same the world over. It’s just that we notice and magnify in our minds the significance of what is insignificant. All peoples have valuable genetic and cultural traits—that’s why their group is still surviving.

There is nothing whatsoever to fear as evolution takes its course. The human landscape in a thousand years will be made up of people who are intelligent, strong, energetic, creative and beautiful. They’ll have a variety of whatever genetic traits prove valuable in the environment of the future.

They are us and we are them. We/they are not our bodies IMO.