{"id":206916,"date":"2021-03-10T05:14:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T10:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=206916"},"modified":"2021-03-10T05:14:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T10:14:50","slug":"robin-diangelo-balked-at-10k-fee-from-public-university-insisted-on-13k-for-prerecorded-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/robin-diangelo-balked-at-10k-fee-from-public-university-insisted-on-13k-for-prerecorded-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin DiAngelo Balked at $10k Fee From Public University, Insisted on $13k for Prerecorded Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frobin-diangelo-balked-at-10k-fee-from-public-university-insisted-on-13k-for-prerecorded-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=206916&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Robin-2018-scaled-e1615320113112.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: left\">Robin DiAngelo, the white author of a bestselling &#8220;antiracism&#8221; book, balked at a request to accept a&nbsp;reduced&nbsp;speaking fee from a public university amid the coronavirus pandemic, insisting that her $12,750 rate was already a bargain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">DiAngelo agreed&nbsp;in early 2020 to be the keynote speaker at the University of Wisconsin&#8217;s annual Diversity Forum, which takes place in October. When the university alerted her in July that the event was transitioning to a virtual format due to the coronavirus pandemic&nbsp;and&nbsp;asked whether she would accept $10,000 for the gig,&nbsp;DiAngelo declined.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;15k is already below her current rates for virtual events, and we&#8217;ve agreed to discount that price by 15 percent,&#8221; DiAngelo&#8217;s assistant told the university. DiAngelo was paid $12,750 and&nbsp;delivered a prerecorded keynote for the event, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/17_UWDiAngeloLehman-Responsive_Emails_Redacted.pdf\">emails<\/a>, which were obtained through an open records request .<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Culture<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/robin-diangelo-balked-at-10k-speaking-fee-from-public-university\/\"><strong>Robin DiAngelo Balked at $10k Fee From Public University, Insisted on $13k for Prerecorded Speech<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/the-power-of-choice\/\"><strong>Reflections on Becoming a U.S. Citizen<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/a-mammoth-disappointment\/\"><strong>A Mammoth Disappointment?<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The university&#8217;s request came amid the widespread protests&nbsp;following&nbsp;the death of George Floyd and as students began to question why DiAngelo, a white woman, was being given the most prominent speaking slot at Wisconsin&#8217;s Diversity Forum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;In the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s murder and the worldwide protests, it seems one thing is overwhelmingly agreed upon by people seeking equity\u2014that now is the time to elevate people of color&#8217;s voices,&#8221; a student argued in an <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/17_UWDiAngeloLehman-Responsive_Emails_Redacted.pdf\">email<\/a> to DiAngelo, which was shared with the university. &#8220;On that note, I was wondering if you could share why such a prestigious speaking spot should be saved for you rather than a person of color.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">DiAngelo, the author of the acclaimed book&nbsp;<em>White Fragility<\/em>, told the university she would &#8220;completely support&#8221; a decision to move her down the event&#8217;s speaking list, adding that&nbsp;the student made a &#8220;good point.&#8221; The university decided to stick with DiAngelo but did ask whether she would lower her fee given the event was made virtual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The&nbsp;<em>Washington&nbsp;<\/em><em>Free Beacon<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/1ebc3a9361927462f0cc9ebdde2e9a7421f0cd5a?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffreebeacon.com%2Fculture%2Fantiracism-icon-robin-diangelo-paid-more-than-black-woman-for-same-job%2F&amp;userId=6348687&amp;signature=6304bdaab1c904d7\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/1ebc3a9361927462f0cc9ebdde2e9a7421f0cd5a?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ffreebeacon.com%252Fculture%252Fantiracism-icon-robin-diangelo-paid-more-than-black-woman-for-same-job%252F%26userId%3D6348687%26signature%3D6304bdaab1c904d7&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615404276967000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFlSxohXUAv_0EbHS36aH1lB34k6A\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;last November that DiAngelo&#8217;s payment was 70 percent larger than what was given to the event&#8217;s other keynote speaker, black author Austin Channing Brown. Neither DiAngelo nor the university responded to requests for comment on the emails.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">DiAngelo, who is set to release a new antiracism book this summer titled&nbsp;<em>Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm<\/em>, has defended her high speaking fees. On her website&#8217;s &#8220;accountability&#8221; page, which was overhauled after&nbsp;a&nbsp;<em>Free Beacon<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/7869a6af12580ba726cdb822e0ceecbea5065f93?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffreebeacon.com%2Fculture%2Fthe-wages-of-woke-2%2F&amp;userId=6348687&amp;signature=aae91541ea0af1d0\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/7869a6af12580ba726cdb822e0ceecbea5065f93?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ffreebeacon.com%252Fculture%252Fthe-wages-of-woke-2%252F%26userId%3D6348687%26signature%3Daae91541ea0af1d0&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615404276967000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFx7fEGeRsStGCRflIkxQu03XroGQ\">report<\/a>&nbsp;on her exorbitant fees, she says charging upwards of $30,000 is &#8220;well within the standard range for a best-selling author who is in high demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">While DiAngelo acknowledged the merits of arguments against a white woman headlining the diversity event, she also argued that her placement made sense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I assume that you chose me because you are a primarily white audience and my message is primarily to white people (and you value my work :), and you made this choice before the events surrounding the killing of George Floyd,&#8221; DiAngelo wrote in a message to the university&#8217;s event coordinator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">DiAngelo&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robindiangelo.com\/accountability-statement\/\">website<\/a> now has an extensive section dedicated to &#8220;the ethics of a white person being paid to do antiracist work,&#8221; in which she says critiques of her work &#8220;have been inflamed&#8221; by&nbsp;<em>Free Beacon<\/em>&nbsp;reports on her finances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">DiAngelo&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/12_UWDiAngelo2Lehman-Responsive_Emails_Redacted.pdf\">emails<\/a> with the University of Wisconsin reveal further that the author was &#8220;quite distressed&#8221; to learn that Charles Lehman, a former <em>Free Beacon<\/em> staff writer, had contacted her and the school with questions about her fee for the diversity event. She praised the school&#8217;s communications director for giving brief answers and asked the university not to cooperate further.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I was quite distressed to see this journalist&#8217;s email in my inbox again this morning,&#8221; DiAngelo <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/12_UWDiAngelo2Lehman-Responsive_Emails_Redacted.pdf\">wrote<\/a>, adding that &#8220;the less we can engage the better and the less he has to twist our words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">DiAngelo told the university that Lehman was &#8220;definitely not interested in racial justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin DiAngelo, the white author of a bestselling &#8220;antiracism&#8221; book, balked at a request to accept a\u00a0reduced\u00a0speaking fee from a public university amid the coronavirus pandemic, insisting that her $12,750 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310410,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Robin-2018-scaled-e1615320113112.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Robin DiAngelo Balked at $10k Fee From Public University, Insisted on $13k for Prerecorded Speech","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Robin-2018-scaled-e1615320113112.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Robin DiAngelo Balked at $10k Fee From Public University, Insisted on $13k for Prerecorded Speech","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}