The Invisible Whiteness of Being: Whiteness, White Supremacy, White Privilege, and Racism.

[Bucky]

3. There is a couple of leaps in logic there that don't track

Because Whiteness is considered to be normative and ideal, it automatically confers dominance on fair skinned people in our society.

Sorry, that's just not historically accurate. There are plenty of societies in history for the dominant group was a minority within the society. In Egypt the default for Egyptian referred to the Hellenistic elites, not the North African peasantry. For generations in Syria the Shiite ruling class was far more visible to the outside world then the Sunni-majority.

The default assumption of whiteness is specifically a function of the white power racist establishment, not the simple majority status of white Americans. Cultural and political efforts to portray persons of color as equal constituents within the American way of life (from car ads to the Voting Rights Act) are progressive necessities and a benefit to the slow racial healing process in our culture.