Lawrence Lanahan is a Baltimore-based journalist who has worked in print and radio journalism for over a decade, publishing with olumbia Journalism Review, The New York Times, Slate, Al Jazeera America, NBCnews.com, Colorlines, APM’s Marketplace, PRI’s Studio 360, and NPR’s Morning Edition.
Lawrence Lanahan is also the author of The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore’s Racial Divide, published by The New Press in May 2019.
In this reasoning Lawrence explains the ‘The White Savior Complex’. White Savior Complex refers to help provided by white people to non-white people for selfish reasons.
Lawrence also speaks about the irrational behaviors of some white people, when their ‘stability’ is threatened.