The whole "white privilege" argument is largely a way to justify racism towards whites. It is offensive and insulting at the same time. People should stop promoting this foolish and divisive belief.

What is true is that children of all races born into a family with two parents where the family values education have advantages. Let's stop inferring it is skin color.

A study contained in the book, Freakanomics (a great read) highlighted that one of the best predictors of success of children was the sheer number of books found in a home. Not the color of the parent's skin or the income of the parents. The presence of books was perceived as an indicator of the value parents put on reading that got passed on to children.

Repeated studies have shown that children of two parent families out compete children of single parent families in schools and later in life... not universally but disproportionately. Again skin color is not a factor. Two parent families have the resources to devote more effort and time to the education of their children. Parental involvement is critical.

A Michigan Public School teachers study showed parental involvement in a child's education is not "a" but "the" leading predictor of a child's academic success. Again no skin color requirement.

Hillary Clinton wrote a book titled "It takes a village to raise a child". This title comes from an African proverb but reflects the idea that privilege is being born into a family that focuses on raising a child and promotes involvement in a child's life as critical to a child's success.

Skin color did not show up as a direct cause of "privilege" in any of those studies. For a child, a "privileged upbringing" is one where parents value education and invest their time in their children's education.

More importantly, nothing in those studies requires that a child be brought up in a middle class family. Perhaps that is why poor Asian children do so well. Their cultural values, parental involvement, and low divorce rates given them a huge edge... but that edge is not due to skin color... they are a minority... Not surprisingly...

"The National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) at Bowling Green State University shows while Asian women have the lowest first divorce rate at 10 divorces per 1,000 women in a first marriage, the corresponding figures for white and Hispanic women were at 16.3 and 18.1, respectively. For African-American women it stands at 30.4."

There is a near 100% relationship between divorce rates by race and economic success by race... layer these statistics with out of wedlock children born by race and the answer shows we need to figure out how to fix the problem of children growing up around parents who don't have the time or inclination to get involved in their children's education.

So deflecting "the conversation" away from family structure, and values towards race and "victimhood" leads not only to chasing impossible solutions down an endless rabbit hole. Even worse, it diverts energy and resources that would be better spent on confronting the underlying challenges including reforming our entitlement system away from one which encourages single parent families among the poor and leads to generational poverty. But also educating those that find themselves in a competitively bad position (single mothers) what they can do to improve the success of their children.

Imagine a public education program titled... "How to give your children a privileged upbringing".

Famous social economist, Thomas Sowell has published repeated studies that argue "culture" whether inherited by an identity group or just an individual family unit determine success. In other words, anyone of any race can be born into a "privileged home" simply through the energies and efforts of one's parents.

And here is the most valuable takeaway. Even those children born into a single parent home of a poor uneducated African American mother can in fact be "privileged" simply by the values that parent chooses to impart to her children and her decision to be involved in her child's education.

"Single parents" like Ben Carson's mother, who could not read, but valued education and was exceedingly involved in her children's education can give children a "privileged upbringing". And through that privilege they can attain great things...