No, Michelangelo’s Depiction of God Doesn’t Capture the Essence of ‘White Supremacy’
Robin DiAngelo, author of the infamous White Fragility and a matchless grifter, recently appeared on a podcast on which she made comments about Christian art that were both deliciously uninformed and self-congratulatory.
DiAngelo’s 2018 book jumpstarted the “all white people are de facto racists” trend. Owing to its success, she has crafted a fine living for herself supported by self-flagellating, progressive funders.
As Reason pithily summarized the grift:
For DiAngelo, racism is not merely a set of negative attitudes about minorities—it is more akin to a spiritual illness that afflicts virtually all white people. Luckily for DiAngelo, she is selling the cure, in the form of her books, lectures, and other speaking engagements. The work is lucrative: the University of Connecticut, for instance, paid her $20,000 to teach at a seminar, and she reportedly charges between $10,000 and $15,000 for a few hours of work. (Or $320 per phone call!)
One can only wonder how much she was paid for her January appearance on a little-known podcast, Not Your Ordinary Parts. On that podcast, DiAngelo explained:
The single image I use to capture the concept of white supremacy is Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: God Creating Man. Where God is in a cloud, and there are all these angels, and he’s reaching out and he’s touching — I don’t know who that is, David or something? — and God is white, David is white, and the angels are white. Like, that is the perfect convergence of white supremacy, patriarchy.
DiAngelo mistook Adam — you know, the first man God created; the fresco is actually titled “The Creation of Adam” — for King David. She stamped all the figures in the fresco with the worst of all possible descriptors: “white.”
