For a supposed champion of equity in modern society, recent comments made by anti-racist academic Robin DiAngelo were strikingly similar to those of segregationists from past decades.
During a webinar hosted by Berrett-Koehler Publishers that was subsequently shared to YouTube by the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, DiAngelo — the author of several books teaching white people to hate themselves — encouraged people of color “to get away from white people and have some community with each other.”
DiAngelo’s language eerily echoes that of Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the Supreme Court established the principle that the 14th Amendment permitted “separate but equal” treatment of African-Americans. However, the Court reversed that decision in Brown v. Board of Education.