I can afford to throw away my vote.I’m a middle-class, straight, white American Christian man.I have a lot of margin for error. I can afford to throw away my vote.To me personally, a Donald Trump presidency would be … moderately annoying. I’d roll my eyes at the cowboy bluster he calls “foreign policy.” I’d be irritated that rich people get more tax breaks than I do. I’d take to Facebook to denounce the right-wing justices he appoints to the Supreme Court, ultimately knowing that their decisions won’t have that much effect on me personally, since I’m a middle-class, straight white American Christian man.[...]When the stakes are low for us, but high for everyone else — that’s white privilege.When we proudly declare that we will waste the fundamental right that others fought and died for, and still don’t fully have — if that’s not white privilege, I don’t know what is.As I type this, poor, black, and brown people are being lied to about how to get a voter ID. Many of them will never get their ID, and will never vote. Others will be turned away at the polls.
I won’t worry about my village being bombed because my mom’s second cousin was maybe photographed near someone who said something critical about the United States.