Whoo boy! Can you say "hypocrisy"?
Robin DiAngelo, who is most famous for writing the bestselling "anti-racist" book "White Fragility" is facing ridicule and criticism after accepting a speaking request this summer. The Washington Free Beacon reported that the woke white lady DiAngelo received 70% more for a speaking request at a University of Wisconsin speaking gig than a fellow keynote speaker who is a black woman.
Oopsy!
From the Free Beacon:
The prominent diversity consultant Robin DiAngelo raked in $12,750 for a speaking gig last month at the University of Wisconsin—70 percent more than the other keynote speaker, black female author Austin Channing Brown.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Division of Diversity, Equity, and Educational Achievement paid Channing Brown just $7,500 for her keynote address at its annual Diversity Forum, receipts obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. The payments were negotiated with the Harry Walker Agency, a New York-based speakers bureau that represents both women.
DiAngelo has called such inequitable treatment the racist heart of capitalism, claiming that "capitalism is dependent on inequality.… If the model is profit over everything else, you're not going to look at your policies to see what is most racially equitable." As she writes in her bestseller White Fragility, she believes racism helps white people and hinders non-white people at every step of the employment process: "Whiteness has psychological advantages that translate into material returns."
If that last sentence taken from DiAngelo's bestselling book is true then DiAngelo is the prime example of someone "benefitting from their whiteness." Diangelo has become a multi-millionaire selling her book and doing speaking engagements where she tells corporations, universities, and even congressmen that they are racist. All for the modest fee of a few thousand dollars. That's her grift.
Of course, if you call it a grift it's because of your "white fragility" and reluctance to acknowledge your racism. You either admit that you are racist, or deny it and thereby prove your racism.
Maybe DiAngelo will see the inequities in her speaking fees and redistribute it to the other speaker, Brown, who received $5,000 less than DiAngelo for the same job. Obviously, if DiAngelo received a higher payment it wasn't due to anything she has said or accomplished, it's only due to a racist society that would elevate a white woman to such heights. At the expense of a person of color.
Or maybe that principle only applies to everybody else.
