These folks have discrimination pretty well entrenched in their approach to life, and it would take a lot of hard work for them to change. Alliance is a proactive act of self-love. When you assert your alliance, you prove that it doesnt matter what differences lie between you and anyone else, you respect all human creatures as equals. Such universal approval only happens when feel no need to protect yourself from others. When you're not afraid of other people, you can love them.
Alliance is a proactive act of trust.
Not only does alliance indicate trust in the people to whom youre allied, it shows trust in discriminating people. In a sense, alliance is NOT alliance to a specific group of people, but to all people. Youre allied with all people, and only against discriminating behavior. If you feel okay about yourself, then its safe for you to feel okay about people who are different from you . You want to do something.