Hi to all the Daily Kossers (or Kossacks if you prefer). I have decided after leaving DKos for over 5 years to come back and join. I have been delighted to see the positive changes and the momentum for making DJT a 1 term president and hopefully a multiple term resident of a correctional facility.
First and foremost I want to apologize to the DKos community. In order to do that I need to explain why I left. As a white male middle class liberal who first and foremost is a socially leaning liberal when I first heard about “White Privilege”, I was offended as I felt that I had no real privilege in my life and that privilege is much more between the 1%ers and the rest of the people and not according to race. While I still believe that justice is based on the ability to afford an expensive defense team, I could not ignore that when I was a young man in the late 70s and early 80s I have to admit that when police stopped me with my long hair and attitude, I was never handcuffed, shot at, or even taken out of my car to lie on the ground with a knee on my neck.
As these incidents have become more recorded on videos (not more common just more visible), it was clear that I was wrong and I did indeed receive White Privilege. Even today, on a rare occasion when a police officer stops me or has a question about my driving or what I am doing, they provide a lot of judgement to give me the benefit of the doubt without any additional action.
So I wanted to share this with the DKos community and say that I sincerely apologize and now I understand why I have White Privilege and why we need to work towards ending that through education and peaceful protest and most importantly by working to elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the next President and Vice President of the USA.