Can a White Person be a Good Ally?

jsykgrl — Thu, 12 May 2016 12:55:59 +0000

After stumbling upon Macklemore’s “White Privilege II,” I was excited to hear what he had to say. It felt like a direct application of the concepts that we had been learning in Contemporary Racism. The song directly references protest slogans from the Black Lives Matter Movement, police brutality, the double standard of hip-hop, and (of course) white privilege. He goes as far as to call himself out for the base of his fame from—and the ...

Macklemore – Contemporary Racism

Can a White Person be a Good Ally?