I Am Not Your #HashTag: Why I Am Critical Of White Allyship

Brittany Talissa King
8 min readJul 4, 2020

By: Brittany Talissa King

The current state of America is one for the history books.

It’s the 4th of July,

Mitt Romney has marched with black liberationists, the NFL has apologized for opposing racial protests, and NASCAR has banned the Confederate flag from their franchise. But bigger things have occurred; over 25 million Americans have crowded the streets in protest against white supremacy, from California to the New York islands. And the…

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Brittany Talissa King

Writer and journalist. I explore race and social issues through history and pop-culture. @b.talissa IG. @KingTalissa Twitter. Journalism MA — NYU.