A nearly impossible tension to resolve, and a tension that I couldn’t even conceive of until I read this.

I used to be such a fair minded centrist. Me, a white cis man, existing in a society built by people like me for people like me, taking for granted the ultimate privilege that conferred on: to not be political.

It’s embarrassing but useful to continually be confronted with vestiges of that privilege.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the phrase “I’m not political” is a phrase inseparable from institutional bigotry, and soaked in the blood of minorities.

If you think that’s a dramatic statement, you’re the one who needed to hear it.