Are White Protesters Helping or Hurting?

Allies or Enemies?

William Spivey
6 min readSep 5, 2020

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Photo by Kalea Morgan on Unsplash

In the immediate aftermath of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers. Organic protests took place, not only in Minneapolis but all over the country and in major cities across the world. One of the first things noticed was that the majority of protesters were white. I grew up in Minneapolis and attended high school just off the campus of the…

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