I Enjoyed Having White Allies In Antiracism While It Lasted

But now, most of them have gone silent

Rebecca Stevens
An Injustice!
Published in
4 min readAug 25, 2021

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Photo by Taylor Boggs on Unsplash

I’m not naive, I knew the day would come when my antiracist white allies would go AWOL, but I guess that I didn’t imagine it would happen so soon. Last year, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, I started publicly writing about my experiences as a Black woman living in a racist world.

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I write about racism, but there are so many other things I would like to write about instead. Help me dismantle racism so that I can get to that.