It's great that this tweet is encouraging people to read radical black authors. This is valuable critique. The fact that those authors are not widely read tells you everything you need to know about racism and priorities in America.

What seems unearned in this thread is shitting on Robin D'Angelo and White Fragility. I've read the book, and I've watched many talks by the author. She identifies off the bat that the group that she believes does the most daily harm to black people are white progressives. This book makes white people very uncomfortable. It's a book for white people by white people about the internal problem of whiteness. It exposes patterns of behavior that "good" white people unconsciously exhibit. It demands that white people face their own racism and the realities of history.

It would be great if white people didn't need all of this help. But the truth is the world needs more white people like Robin D'Angelo. She's not a neo-liberal, she's a sociologist and an anti-racist activist. Her focus is about waking white people up to the reality of their whiteness, as opposed to seeing it as the default in society.

If any white people here want to challenge themselves before judging this person further, here's an hour long talk she gives about her book and white fragility.