The new mayor of Philadelphia is already attempting to appease “Black Lives Matter” activists by acknowledging his “white privilege” on the eve of his inauguration.

Philadelphia Mayor-elect Jim Kenney, who will be sworn in Friday, said he will be focusing on police practices during his tenure.

“I understand white privilege,” Kenney said, WDUN reports. “I’ve never been stopped and frisked. The only reason why I haven’t been is because I’m a white man, period. I can’t get offended or mean or mad about it. Give it to me, and we’ll try to work our way through it.”

Kenney will succeed the city’s third black mayor, Michael Nutter and he believes he has a “huge responsibility” to the voters who put him in office.

“I have to provide things that will give people an equal footing when it comes to their future development and success and the reaching of their potential,” he said.

That includes more government programs, such as expanding schooling to younger ages and creating (presumably government) jobs.

In May, Kenney said he wants to decriminalize behavior he believes has a racial double standard.

Speaking about marijuana, Kennedy said decriminalizing it is a “civil rights issue” and called it an “opportunity to keep young people in our city, many of them African Americans, out of the criminal justice system,” City Lab reported.

He added that “in some ways it’s been decriminalized for quite some time for a certain race of people [if] you go to a Willie Nelson concert, or Phish concert or an Eagles game.”

“When two young Mexican kids get into a fistfight and get hauled off to the Fourth District and there’s an ICE agent waiting in the lobby, that’s not right,” he said in 2014.