"What White Women Can Learn From Adele’s Grammys Speech"

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It is not Adele’s fault that she won the Grammys she won. But as white women, we can learn from her instinct to use a public moment that was, perhaps wrongly, afforded to her to honor the work of a woman who truly deserved that moment herself. Adele showed us one small way to practice sisterhood rather than exclusionary White Feminism.

White women must use their privilege to actively step back and elevate women of color. It is not enough to recognize that white supremacy generally exists. It is far more impactful to call out specific injustices ? especially when they work to benefit you directly.

As Americans, we all consume and enjoy the cultural experiences, pains and talents of women of color, specifically black women, but rarely are those women given their due by gatekeeper institutions. What Adele did is by no means revolutionary, but at the very least it kept the focus of the night on Beyoncé’s work, and took the first step toward calling out the bias of the Recording Artists Academy.

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