I appreciate your perspective. The primary point I was trying to make is that “white privilege" is simply majority privilege. It’s the reality that thousands or millions of individuals make a lot of choices that are driven by whatever group is their highest percentage of consumers, with race never entering the equation. And importantly, said privilege is almost completely out of control of individual members of the group. White privilege has shifted from a sociological fact to an incendiary label with a hint of blame. I have Black daughters. I’ll say that Band Aid for example is short sighted and insensitive for not producing multiple skin tone band aids, but I wouldn’t call it racism. And I think some confuse innocuous privilege with insidious systemic racism, mostly by governments, which favor one group over another, crack versus powder cocaine comes to mind, but even that example is driven more by the ease of identifying street sellers compared to private sales at non public parties. The result looks or is racist even when the intent is not. Thabks for engaging.
