White Allies: You Don’t Get to Not Be White Right Now

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Two weeks ago a dear white friend of mine reposted a TikTok video in her Instagram story of a clever white young man saying “I denounce my whiteness. I’m off-white, I’m beige, you can call me pink, you can call me snowflake… I don’t care what you call me just don’t call me white. Those people on the news— those are white people…”*