Why ‘Raise Black Voices’ Is The Latest Destructive Catch-All Phrase

The most terrible thing in all of this is that that is what we’ve told white people they need to do in order to be allies

Two years ago, and a couple of months into the pandemic, there was a vocal uproar on the heels of the Black Lives Matter movement.

At the time it felt like people from all levels of society were joining in the same chant: Raise Black Voices.

Even then, there was something immensely disappointing and discouraging about that.