If there is no privilege inherent in being white in America, I wonder what explains things like the study out of PSU where they had black and white people attempt to cross a street at a crosswalk without other traffic controls and the blacks had to wait for twice as many cars to violate their right of way relative to the whites. 

If capitalism is color blind, which I infer you mean that it is merit based, then why is it that Americans all pretty much end up in the same quintile of income as their parents (even less socioeconomic mobility here than in Europe). Bear in mind that the largest source of family wealth happens to be the family home(s), and blacks do have a record of being discriminated in that sector that goes on even today.

Perhaps living in such a whites only place has caused Earl to not understand what it's like to be other than white in America.