Privilege is feeling safe and protected when you see a flag or a house of worship, and for many brown, LGBTQ or any ‘others’ this isn’t the case.

These seemingly welcoming signs can be oppressive.

Especially when the American flag appears alongside a confederate one and churches have become just another target.

While we need to unite blue, we have a militarized police problem that for many Black (Latino and Native American) people seems parallel to a time not so long ago.

Instead of coming at night, on horseback, covered in white; the wrong and rogue come arrive in in broad daylight and on camera, in squad cars and in uniform.

And, most discouragingly, use bullets instead of rope.

Not all – just too many.

Privilege is being able to get out of the all or nothing trap.

Ain’t nobody anti-cop. I don’t want no job where people shoot at you.God bless them and all of us!

If the wrong and rogue get the White House, built by enslaved Black people, what becomes of the “free” Black people today, who don’t feel free as the flag waves or when a squad car appears in the rear view mirror. What does “free” look like if Hillary isn’t president?

PS: Double negatives used above deliberately for effect. I’m bilingual – fluent in English and real life!