If you don't believe in (recognize) white privilege why the fuck are you on a Democratic Forum?

[gaspee]

271. Which is pretty ironic

considering that women and people of color ARE the core base of the Democratic party. I have hope that as demographics change over the next two decades and it becomes increasingly clear that our voices DO actually count, and as we get more people who look like the core of the base elected to higher office, it will be the people who control the party who have to change themselves and learn to be more accepting because they aren't going to win a damn thing without the rest of us. And I hope they realize that threatening to vote republican because they are no longer in control of 100% of the process, doling out bits and pieces to those of us polite enough for them, makes them look like the people they actually are, underneath it all.

And for those poor abused white males of privilege who feel so picked on because they no longer control the party - well, I promise we won't make you sit at the back of the bus. And for those who actually do have, at heart, the values of equality and egalitarianism - we will all make a fantastic coalition for the betterment of all of us.