Why Sharing Videos of Black Pain is no Longer an Effective Method of Allyship

Now more than ever, I am ready to re-activate my pledge about refraining from the instinctual urge to share and repost graphic content about upsetting events, that are used to coerce the empathetic swell of disgust and horror.

The stinging repercussion of those actions exposes how very disturbing content only mildly beckons at the…