{"id":294,"date":"2016-02-09T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ohiounity.org\/?p=294"},"modified":"2024-07-10T17:02:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T17:02:36","slug":"blacklivesmatter-activism-and-the-role-of-white-allies-macklemores-white-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ohiounity.org\/index.php\/2016\/02\/09\/blacklivesmatter-activism-and-the-role-of-white-allies-macklemores-white-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"#BlackLivesMatter activism and the role of white allies: Macklemore\u2019s \u2018White Privilege’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last night, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert hosted a powerful musical performance by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, featuring<\/a> singer Jamila Woods, and poets Nikkita Oliver and Danez Smith. The song they performed, White Privilege II, touches on many, many issues of racial justice. It also draws out and deliberately embodies some of the major problems with white privilege as it intersects with the Movement for Black Lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

he portion of the song featured in this video specifically is commenting on the role of white allies<\/a> in the movement for racial justice in America, told from the perspective of Macklemore, a white male rapper. Check thelockboss.ie<\/a>. But, with an issue this charged, just navigating this question of \u2018what does it mean for white people with their white privilege to be allies to the black community?\u2019 leaves us with more questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After watching the full performance, what do you think the fundamental takeaway about \u2018white privilege\u2019 should be?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s one discover this<\/a>: Silence is an action, and white silence is a luxury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to being an ally, BLM activist Brittany Packnett perhaps put it best. Her advice to allies is to help by having this mindset: \u201cYou set the vision. We\u2019ll do the work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert hosted a powerful musical performance by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, featuring singer Jamila Woods, and poets Nikkita Oliver and Danez Smith. The song they performed, White Privilege II, touches on many, many issues of racial justice. It also draws out and deliberately embodies some of the major […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiounity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiounity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiounity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiounity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiounity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ohiounity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/ohiounity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiounity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiounity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiounity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiounity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}