DeRay McKesson Helps Stephen Address His Privilege [9 min - The Late Show with Stephen Colbert]

In Rural Caucasian dominated Areas of the country (at least where I am) for Progressives to advance anti-Trump and anti-Racist messages becomes difficult when the message heard in the media isn't that all lives matter by the rural whites I am surrounded by.  I risk my job, risk having my car keyed (it has been previously by addressing these issues with others).  Though I see the very important value of acknowledging the horrific problem of racial injustice,  I wonder why we do not talk more about reparations to native Americans, why we forget that many of us are immigrants to this country after 1900.   I too have been attacked by police, visciously,  because I lived in a drug infested small rural town on the poorest street with boarded up houses and rusted out vans with spray painted slurs on them.  My neighbor told me after my attack which I won't forget that the prior tenants had been selling narcotics out of the house - a broken down, really awful place that kind of creeped me out but was the only place I could find on the quick that would accept two lab puppies.   I cannot talk to others about these problems in my caucasian dominated rural neighborhoods or  tell people that the first candidate I supported in my youth was Jesse Jackson --- because he cared about the poor -- without being looked at in disgust and with suspicion. 

I am treated with anger, distrust and hate by whites for supporting racial causes and have been by some African Americans for not acknowledging my white privilige (a word I cannot even spell).  

For me, my life  matters too, and what I have seen is the decimation of whole groups of people based on economics  w.o regard to skin color.  I wonder if open conversation is not diminished by an approach that I hear to say, you must bow down and tell me that you know and understand how much you have hurt, harmed and offended me.  If I offend anyone, I apologize.