If you benefit from white privilege

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3. I have this argument with my parents all the time.

I'm as white as they come. My dad grew up poor and worked his ass off to rise out of that and become a successful business man. It doesn't diminish his hard work at all, but despite being fairly liberal folks they don't see that because his hard work and success came in the 60's and 70's that it was still legal and acceptable for companies and colleges and everything else to discriminate against people of color and women. He thinks that pointing this out is saying he didn't work hard or had things handed to him, which he didn't. But he definitely still had a massive advantage being a white male.

They also get mad when I point out that a lot of my own success was because I had/have the opportunity of being a white male born into a financial successful white family who could afford tutors, who could afford college, who could afford to support me while I took unpaid internships, etc.

The problem is that the people who benefit from this privelige thinks that it negates the work they did put in or their own skills or intelligence, which it doesn't. It's just a matter of asking people to understand and appreciate the opportunities and privilges that they did have and not pretend that everyone has those same opportunities.