There is no such thing as "white privilege". There is a profound disparity between the way white people and black people are treated generally in our culture, but the source of that disparity is not white privilege. It is not a positive for white people; it is a negative for black people. I don't believe that is an unimportant distinction. The absence of a negative is not the same thing as the presence of a positive.

I am 65 years old, southern, male and white. For several months I have been thinking back through my life and trying to remember and identify a single event in my life when something good happened to me because I am a white male. I cannot think of a single one. It's true that I haven't had to deal with the kind of discrimination black people have to deal with, but again, that's not the presence of a positive for white people, it's the absence of a negative.

I know somebody is going to say that white people just don't understand white privilege, but that's because racial discrimination is something that doesn't happen to them. It's something that happens to black people; that's why white people have no personal experience of it.

Whenever somebody mentions white privilege, what they are really talking about is black dis-privilege.

Ron