You seem to feel "privilege is a function of skin color rather than a function of wealth, family values and to a lesser extent luck. Perhaps it is convenient to think of one race as victims and the other as oppressors, but it just does not work that way in real life.
Again, the white families in Appalachia are descended from the indentured servants of the 1600s... it is simply ludicrous to suggest that their skin color has bestowed privileges to them. The reality being born poor without a core value centered on education, and without being born with exceptional talent, they have been consigned to poverty for over 300 years!
Meanwhile, my African American grandchildren are not "victims of oppression. Their mother comes from the dominant tribe in her home country. My son is an executive vice president and so the children enjoy the benefits of attending private schools, living in affluent neighborhoods, a two-parent loving family, and that highly values work ethic and education. That is privilege. And the result of that privilege is that children like my grandchildren feel secure and are securing the kind of education, that a poor white child in Appalachia never will. But you want to claim that child in Appalachia is "privileged" and my grandchildren are victims. Give me a break.
Meanwhile, in spite of my son's wealth, private schools throw scholarships at my grandchildren so they can boast about their virtue, while those poor white children in Appalachia along with many black children in those communities suffer real hardship.
I want to encourage you to look around. I also have a granddaughter, who happens to be black who is growing up in a single parent family whose black father provides no child support. And so my daughter works her ass off to support her daughter and we help to subsidize them. But still while we can address the financial disadvantages of a child growing up in a single parent family, studies, there are other issues that money can't fix and it won't be her skin color that undermines her success as I have seen the same issues in single mother families with white children. Interestingly, her father is Haitian and likewise did not grow up under oppression.
I do believe privilege exists but stereotyping it as "white" is racist. Frankly, a two-parent loving black family, that emphasizes education and works hard to teach their children the values that our society rewards and loves their children and makes them feel secure are far more privilege, than the white child of a broken home, whose parents are too busy pursuing their selfish goals then to love their child.
Compare how those children turn out in those two scenarios and you will understand what real privilege is all about.
