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

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113. That's not my experience...

Which is not to say that it doesn't happen (I know it does), but it doesn't happen everywhere. I know black judges, black prosecuters and quite a few black attorneys (because my wife is an attorney).

While there are a lot of situations where people are discriminated against purely because of color, there are also situations where black people must hold certain positions. There are several judgeships and state job openings that must be held by black people. I realize that this is not enough to counteract the massive number of prejudices against black people, but when you evaluate micro-situations, what you see is that the 'theory of white privilege' doesn't always apply. Which is why I suggest that it be renamed.

As a social theory it seems specific to the American experience. Im sure there are situations even in America where it is a disadvantage NOT to be a member of the dominant race. For example, I expect in Asian communities being white does not give one an immediate, automatic advantage. It is for this reason I suggest that 'the theory of white privilege' should be renamed to something like 'the theory of the dominant race privilege'. That's really what it is.

Because there are situations where the privilege of being white is not extended (the inner city for example). It is the term itself that I think is not helping the 'effort'.

Your deliberate misrepresentation of my position on education is a bunch of crap. It is my position that we need to spend more on education in poor urban neighborhoods. Reduce class size, increase individual attention per student etc. I was not blaming the educational short-comings on those with the short-comings. That's a straw man you constructed.

When I lived in the inner city I interacted with a lot of bright young children and I know that they went to the same middle school as my son. The teachers acted more like prison guards than teachers. They yelled at the kids to stand quietly in lunch lines - like it hurts something for the kids to talk in lunch line.

We need to invest in these kids' education, not yell at them. That's my position, not the position that you assigned to me and then tore down.