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Mike M, the double standards you pointed out are hard to ignore... Good points, all. Maybe here are two more...
White privilege is owning more than half a dozen homes and not being considered a member of the elite class, while owning a single home as a black family in the South Side of Chicago can only be due to questionable insider political ties and speaks to your uppity, celebrity-fueled persona.
White privilege is wearing, as a model of success, a designer outfit and jewelry worth more than a quarter million dollars to the Republican National Convention as the wife of a candidate, while earning an Ivy League degree as a black woman and working as an executive for a major hospital is only due to affirmative action, not hard work and sacrifice.
*BTW, I'm a white, male married father of two daughters who attend public schools. Homeowner, taxpayer, public university graduate. Centrist progressive. Heavily traveled throughout Asia and Europe, and nearly all 50 U.S. states. Probably has made me close-minded, I know.
