For the past couple of weeks I have been laboring to write the third and final part of my review of Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility. The first two parts took an unusually long time to prepare, but in the end I was pleased with the results. In the first article my goal was to summarize the contents of 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 the second article I tried to summarize what the Bible says about race and racism by following much the same structure. And then I began to write part three, which was meant to bring the other two together. I wrote a draft and scrapped it. I wrote another draft and scrapped it again. And again. And again. My drafts folder is full of attempts, none of which I’m happy with.
I am not sure why I’ve struggled so much. I’ve reviewed hundreds of books over the years and have rarely had difficulty in summarizing them and
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