What Can White Folks Do for Black History Month? Keep Their Promise.

Shane Paul Neil

4 min readFeb 1, 2021

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Whites yelled Black Lives Matter at the top of their lungs in 2020. Blacks haven’t forgotten the promise assumed in doing so.

It’s been a little over six months since social uprisings and protests swept the country. 2020 was the year where Black people had enough (again). Between police brutality, white supremacy, and everything Trump, Black people…

Shane Paul Neil

Written by Shane Paul Neil

Writer (duh) and photographer. Bylines @levelmag @complex @ebony @huffpo shotbyspn.com/findme

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