These posts are a lot more honest (IMO) than the greater portrayal of "white privilege." The truth is, every group and every individual has some aspects about them that are advantages and some that are disadvantages, not matter who they are. Do "white people" as a group have some advantages that other groups don't? Probably, but "white people" is a very broad group to make sweeping generalizations about. However, other groups have advantages that whites don't as well (in general of course). But this is true of whatever aspect we look at. You mentioned money and geography, but virtually everything falls into this. I'm approximating here, but let's say 90% of humans fall between the heights of 4'10" and 6'4" tall. The people who fall in that height bracket are going to have advantages over people who don't. Doorways, beds, cars, etc, are all designed for people in this height bracket. Is it because people are "height prejudiced?" In general, no; it is because things are designed to be useful to the most amount of people. We could look at anything from familiar parameters like education level, race, handicap, income level, age, and language, to less familiar classifications like urban vs rural living situations, diet, generational factors, climate factors; the list could go on and on. Even more superficial aspects like ability levels, hair or eye color, baldness. The point is, every category we "fit into" has it's advantages and disadvantages. We all have characteristics that fit into many, many categories; thus, we all have advantages in some some ways and disadvantages in other ways.
The problem is, this "white privilege" movement has been used to divide the races in this country, to pen virtually all the problems of minorities on the idea that whites have all this stuff given to them (which both of you allude to), and that whites enjoy such privilege and want to prevent minorities from enjoying the same privilege because they are inherently racist. It also picks out the category of skin color (from hundreds of other categories we could come up with) and basically says "this is the only one that matters; this is the source of all the problems." That is total baloney. This is has been the pervasive narrative that I have heard from all walks of culture during the movement, and it is everywhere. Not just in the mainstream media, but in TV shows, movies, classrooms, college courses, Hollywood, message boards, everywhere. It has been bought, hook, line, and sinker. We have people apologizing for being white and expressing "white guilt." Do people not see the problem here? This is race shaming, or whatever you want to call it, but it is just another form of racism. Redirected racism is not the right way to fix racism. We have to stop the blame game. We have to take personal responsibility for the things we can control and work to make positive changes. We also have to accept that not everything is always going to be fair. I am not going to fit into every advantage category and neither is someone else. Other people are going to have some advantages that I'll never have and vice versa. It is called life.
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