Too late ... Dean Phillips is what he is ... a cowardly lil' bitch.
Congressman Apologizes, Tearfully Claims Capitol Riot Helped Him Understand His ‘Privilege’
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) delivered a speech on the House floor Thursday night recounting his experience during the Capitol riot and said the ordeal helped him to understand his “privilege,” for which he tearfully apologized.
Speaking during a special order hour that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) organized, Phillips joined several other Democratic members of Congress to reflect on the unrest of Jan. 6.
Phillips first rose to thank Ocasio-Cortez for organizing the special order hour and “for inspiring rising generations” such as his daughters.
Remembering how he was one of 20 members of Congress who took cover in the House gallery when the Capitol was breached on Jan. 6, Phillips said he wasn’t sure if he was going to survive or if he would have to stab would-be attackers with his pencil.
“But I’m not here this evening to seek sympathy or just to tell my story [but] rather to make a public apology,” said Phillips. “For recognizing that we were sitting ducks in this room as the chamber was about to be breached. I screamed to my colleagues to follow me, to follow me across the aisle to the Republican side of the chamber, so that we could blend in — so that we could blend in.”
Phillips said he then realized at the time that if he were a person of color, he would not be able to blend in by pretending to be a Republican, which moved him to realize the privilege he claims he has as a white man.
His voice shaking with emotion, Phillips apologized to his colleagues and the entire country for his white privilege. “I’m sorry,” he said. “I’m sorry. For I had never understood, really understood, what privilege really means. It took a violent mob of insurrectionists and a lightning bolt moment in this very room. But now I know. Believe me, I really know.” ...
Yeah, everybody knows, lil' Miss Phillips.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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