Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility is one of the bestselling books of 2020 and one of the resources most commonly recommended to those who are concerned with issues of race, racism, and racial reconciliation. In a previous article I attempted to summarize the book as a kind of narrative that explains what the world should be like, tells what the world is actually like, prescribes actions we ought to take to improve the world, and describes the future we can imagine when we’ve done so. In brief, the world should be marked by peace, equity, and equality between the races. However, Western nations were founded upon principles of white supremacy that have elevated whites while marginalizing people of color. It now falls to whites to set aside our white fragility and own our intrinsic racism which will allow us to raise our racial consciousness and begin to divest ourselves of our whiteness. The degree to which we do this is the degree to which we will stop harming people of color and usher in a time of greater (though still limited) equality and unity between the races.
In this follow-up article I want to turn to the Bible to
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