Robin DiAngelo is making bank for her work as a public intellectual on matters of race. The Daily Mail estimated that she makes 3/4 of a million dollars a year peddling her idiotic ideas to corporations and institutions that are obsessed with signaling their racial virtue to one another.
That’s a nice living, selling a form of absolution to White people for their racism by congratulating them for being concerned about race.
Her book, “White Fragility,” zoomed her into stardom, and in its wake her speaking fees became astronomical. They averaged $14,000 according to Ms. DiAngelo, who defends them mightily on her webpage. She is well aware that more than a few people have noticed that she is getting wealthy peddling the idea that Black people are uniquely disadvantaged.
There is more than a little irony in that, although DiAngelo readily admits that she is privileged as a White…
