“White Fragility,” Vaccines, and Waldorf Education

I am a parent member of a diversity, equity and inclusion committee at the Portland Waldorf school in Oregon. We agreed to read “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism”, by Robin DiAngelo,[i]^⁠ which I found to be penetratingly accurate and helpful.

It helped me to understand better how to minimize my own defensiveness and sensitivity to racism so that I can actively participate in its undoing through better self-awareness of my own education, socialization, and biases, and that of my children. In other words, the task presented by this book is a fundamentally spiritual task: to know myself.

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