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‘WHITE FRAGILITY’ AUTHOR CALLING MICHAELANGELO PAINTING OF GOD ‘WHITE
SUPREMACIST’ IS A NEW LOW
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Robin DiAngelo (right) claims Michalangelo's "God Creating Man" is white
supremacist. @sfmcguire79/X
In 2020, Robin DiAngelo was the queen of DEI, raking in a healthy six-figure
salary to scold other white people about their privilege. But now her diversity
empire has withered — leaving her spewing nonsense in obscure crevices of the
internet.
On a recent episode of the “Not Your Ordinary Parts” podcast, the “White
Fragility” author slammed Michelangelo’s depiction of God creating man as “white
supremacist” — and repeatedly misidentified the Old Testament’s Adam as David in
the process.
DiAngelo told host Jalon Johnson that the iconic painting “The Creation of Adam”
is “the single image I use to capture the concept of white supremacy.”
As she described the masterpiece to the podcast’s whopping 188 YouTube
subscribers, DiAngelo made a major gaffe: “God is in a cloud and there’s all
these angels, and he’s reaching out and he’s touching — I don’t know who that
is, David or something?”
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According to DiAngelo, Michelangelo’s work is a “perfect convergence” of white
supremacy and patriarchy. savcoco – stock.adobe.com
Johnson smirked as she continued, “And God is white and David is white and the
angels are white — that, that is the perfect convergence of white supremacy, of
patriarchy.”
She then goes on to mention she was raised Catholic (did Adam and Eve not get a
mention in Sunday school?), and recollects looking up at art in church.
“I didn’t think to myself that God is white, but that, in a lot of ways, is
power,” she explained. “I don’t need to. God just reflects me … I always belong
racially to what is depicted as the human ideal.”
It’s a bizarre word salad, punctuated with academic jargon like “patriarchy” and
“white supremacy” — and a strangely self-indulgent descriptor of herself as the
“human ideal.”
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Did it not occur to DiAngelo that, as a 16th-century Italian artist,
Michelangelo might not have had racial animosity in his heart as he painted
works such as the Sistine Chapel? Mistervlad – stock.adobe.com
Even a 500-year-old masterpiece is an expression of modern white supremacy when
viewed through DiAngelo’s tortoiseshell spectacles.
Did it not occur to DiAngelo that, as a 16th-century Italian artist,
Michelangelo might not have had racial animosity in his heart as he painted God
and “David”?
It’s worth zooming out for a moment to appreciate DiAngelo’s fall from grace —
from leader of a DEI movement that swept corporate America, to some wacky lady
misidentifying supposedly white supremacist biblical figures on minor podcasts.
DiAngelo was an obscure whiteness studies professor at the University of
Washington in 2020, when her 2018 book “White Fragility” soared to the number
one slot of the New York Times bestseller list following George Floyd’s murder.
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DiAngelo reportedly makes more than $700,000 from speaking engagements and
workshops in a year. JasonPToews/Wiki Commons
Her message — that all white people are inherently racist — ignited a scourge of
white liberal self-flagellation that enriched her greatly.
“The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped
by the forces of racism, but how,” DiAngelo wrote in her book. “The antidote to
white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement,
humility, and education.”
That summer, DiAngelo capitalized on social unrest — and thrust herself into the
spotlight as the go-to expert for racial justice training at corporations,
schools and organizations alike.
She reportedly raked in more than $700,000 just from speeches and workshops in
the year following George Floyd’s murder — not to mention royalties and her
salary as a professor of whiteness studies.
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“White Fragility” shot to the top of the bestseller charts following George
Floyd’s death. Linda Jrita Mason/Facebook
The author even pocketed $12,750 for a 2020 speaking gig at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison Diversity Forum, while black speaker Austin Channing Brown got
only $7,500 for the same event.
For her brave work spreading white guilt across the nation, she was even
bestowed with two honorary degrees from Starr King Seminary and Lewis & Clark
College.
The optics of DiAngelo’s rise to antiracist superstardom were astounding: A
liberal white woman wagging her finger at other liberal white people, monetizing
their guil, and doing just about nothing to actually fight racism or improve the
lives of Black people in America.
But, as it turns out, being told you’re a racist gets old fast — and DiAngelo’s
jig is up.
Recently, major players in the business world have taken aim at DEI.
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Business leaders like Bill Ackman and Elon Musk have taken aim at DEI. REUTERS
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman tweeted that “DEI is racist because reverse
racism is racism, even if it is against white people (and it is remarkable that
I even need to point this out).”
Meanwhile Elon Musk rejiggered the letters of DEI—short for diversity, equity
and inclusion — to DIE on X.
Although demands for DEI roles soared by 55% in 2020 — 76% of which were taken
by white people like DiAngelo, and only 3.8% by Black employees — corporations
are scaling back en masse.
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Zoom, which laid off its DEI team, is one of many companies to scale back. Getty
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Diversity job postings are down 44% year-over-year, and companies like Google
and Meta slashed their budget for external DEI consultants by as much as 90% in
2023. Zoom also recently laid off its DEI team.
Turns out paying hustlers like DiAngelo to tell you your company is irredeemably
racist isn’t a winning business strategy after all.
Just as the DEI industry has risen and fallen, so too has DiAngelo — a scold
whose stardom was propelled by a momentary moral panic, and who apparently could
use some brushing up on her biblical and cultural references.
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Did it not occur to DiAngelo that, as a 16th-century Italian artist,
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