white shield

English

Noun

white shield (plural white shields)

  1. (neologism) White people who make a formation around black people in order to protect them from racist violence.
    Hypernym: human shield
    • 2020, Awino Okech, Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 2:
      The purpose of this white shield around black bodies was to prevent the threat of violence by the police against the black students.
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