Why I don't think the phrase/argument white privilege is effective.

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107. I have plenty of friends of color...

In fact, I have family members of color. Perhaps those who continuously bring up white privilege should research their audience.

I've lived in poor inner city neighborhoods, and have sent my kids to school in classrooms where they were the only non-black child. I was in the military and had many non-white friends.

I have plenty of awareness of the problems. The solution to the problem will not present itself by reminding me and others like myself how awful it is. The solution to the problem is not: get people to empathize. The solution to the problem is education. Not educating white people about white privilege, but inner city education programs that allow young black kids to go to university and study engineering, science and law etc.

Education is the great equalizer despite any assumptions you make about how people won't change their attitude toward people of color - ever. In my experience educated intelligent people get respect regardless of color.

Sure, there will always be racist pigs, but it's more damaging to the effort of trying to convince people to empathize when you assume that the person that you're having a discussion with is an ignorant racist pig - than it would be if you treated would be allies, with some level of respect.

The discussion about the term white privilege is divisive, you've done nothing to convince me otherwise. Perhaps it would help to simply rename the theory.