If you are a white kid and getting beat up by blacks because you are white, can't a white person understand a bit what it is like for blacks to be beat up because of their color? I'm not talking about adults for the moment, I'm talking about kids on this point. While I may not relate to what it is like to experience racism as an adult, I surely understand what it was like as a kid when it came to various things. Made me sad, just like it would any person who experiences that "because of your skin color" treatment. While that may only be a very small sample of the continual daily racism that blacks experience, it does help me connect with their experience.
  I'm also sad that people tend to use "white privilege" as an offensive term as the writer did in response to my letter to the editor. I indicated I oppose racism and the fall-out of it. I indicated I was an ally, not an enemy. Why was it necessary in this person's letter to put down a white ally and be glad to offend them.  Why?