There was a time when in the old south men of color were hanged by white men for being with a white woman. That was a time when white men thought they owned all women. Like chattel. 

There was also a time when I wouldn’t stop in any restaurant or bar on my way to Fairbanks when I had a good looking white woman with me. I’m brown. I had had too many “what the eff are you doing with my woman???” remarks from some illiterate ignorant white men.

They were entitled. Privileged if you will, to act that way. I see it hasn’t changed much. As one white woman in Las Vegas said about Trump acting like a pig around women, “he’s just an American man.”