White fragility (lot of this around here recently!):

[TeacherB87]

64. It's a good article.

"White fragility" refers to the fact that many white people get defensive in and around conversations about race, it is not the same as the literal definition of "fragility," with which you appear to associate it.

Of course people should not hijack a candidates event when thousands showed up to see said candidate, especially when he offers to let the people speak after people see what they came to see. That has nothing to do with their race or the righteousness of their cause, and yes their cause is a righteous one (no religious connotation implied here). I also understand that you deserve to react to what happened. I am a huge Bernie fan and consider him to be one of the greatest advocates for racial equality that has ever run for president, so I see it as unfair that that he is being associated with "white supremacist progressives."

However, "white supremacist progressives" do exist, as do all of the examples of "white fragility" cited in the article. I have seen them over and over again as a native son of Southern Virginia. I have heard the conversations that some white people have when they think no people of color, or those that support their equality, are around to listen to them. It is awful and embarrassing that I have to be associated with people like that, even in my own family.

Even now, as I live in a large (and very "Liberal" city) I still here more subtle and subliminal reflections of the same attitudes that were expressed all around me by the rednecks around which I grew up.

If you haven't seen/heard these mindsets reflected in others, and forgive my assumption here if it is incorrect, then you aren't looking in the right places. I've worked almost entirely with students of color during the decade I've been in my career and I see these things all the time.