Culcleasure: Redemption in an oppressive racist culture

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Infinite Culcleasure, an independent candidate for Burlington mayor.
I am running for mayor because Burlington is a community that not only believes in accountability, but also in the possibility of transformation and the power of redemption, of hope and of giving people a second chance.
I was 11 years old the first time I was taken into police custody in Brooklyn, because I share the same skin color with a man who had robbed a local store. When I moved