Coming Together Speaker Series: Dr. Robin DiAngelo

Ah. This woman and her subject matter is everything I despise, loathe and resent. But hers is the microphone, and the valid but contemptible academic credentials, and the hour or two allotted her to speak without interruption. So, in Ms. Maleficent's terms, our protesting that we have already heard entirely too much, and more than we need, about putative Racism, is a "micro-aggression."

But, in a fashion inconceivable to la DiAngelo, having long since proved myself an American Transcendentalist Individual, instead of acceding to the Christian peremptory demand that I acknowledge myself sinful by nature, I am fore-armed against her similarly insulting insistance that I am unconsciously socialized and incapable of objectivity--which sounds to my ear indistinguishably like an imputation of Original Sin.