Robin DiAngelo's 'Nice Racism' suffers disappointing debut Robin DiAngelo, author of the 2018 smash hit White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, may soon relinquish her title as America's preeminent "antiracist" influencer. DiAngelo's much anticipated second title, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm, sold just 3,500 copies in its first week of publication and barely made the New York Times bestseller list during what one literary executive described as an "unusually slow" period for book sales. For the sake of comparison, disgraced governor Andrew Cuomo's pandemic memoir, American Crisis, sold nearly...