White women paying $2.5K for a dinner to learn how they’re racist

Liberal white women are paying a steep price to “smash” their “white fragility” with dinners to learn how they’re racist.

Regina Jackson, who is black, and Saira Rao, who is Indian American, have been hosting $2,500 “Race to Dinner” events with Caucasian women attendees intent on having their subconscious racism challenged.  So far, they’ve held 15 dinners in big cities across the US, including Denver, since spring 2019.

“If you did this in a conference room, they’d leave,” Rao tells the Guardian. “But wealthy white women have been taught never to leave the dinner table.”

The dinners are two hours long with eight to 10 white women as guests, one of whom volunteers her home for the event — and sometimes covers the full $2,500 price tag for the evening. Or the fee is divided up among the guests.

White men and Trump voters are not invited, as Jackson and Rao perceive them to be lost causes.

“White men are never going to change anything. If they were, they would have done it by now,” Jackson says, adding they focus on liberal white women because they feel they can actually influence them. Those women, in turn, will likely go on to influence their own circles.

“If they don’t hold these positions themselves, the white men in power are often their family, friends and partners,” says Jackson.

There’s also required reading before attending a dinner, including “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo that postulates everyone has moments of racism in their lives.At a recent dinner, which featured carbonara, women went around and shared racist thoughts and actions, however subconscious, they’d recently had.

“I want to hire people of color. Not because I want to be … a white savior. I have explored my need for validation … I’m working through that … Yeah. Um … I’m struggling,” said the night’s host, Jess Campbell-Swanson.

“The dinners are a starting point,” according to Race to Dinner’s about section. “A place to start thinking through how you actively uphold white supremacy every minute of every day.”

Jackson and Rao met while Rao was running for Congress in 2018.

“When Regina joined the campaign, she noticed the throngs of white women anxious to meet Saira with the sole intent to tell her that they weren’t racist,” the Race to Dinner site explains in its history section. Done with “getting berated by women,” Rao came up with the dinner concept and asked Jackson, who works in real estate, to co-run them with her.

The pair also offers consulting services, charging $150 for an hour with either of them or $300 for the two women.

“So you are willing to set aside your white woman tears?” the application form asks.

https://nypost.com/2020/02/04/white-women-paying-2-5k-for-a-dinner-to-learn-how-theyre-racist/