Just because Wente professes not to understand the point of white privilege doesn't mean there isn't one. In fact, she should look around the Globe offices and ask herself, "why is almost everyone here white, and why is the executive team and editorial board exclusively white? Especially when the city we live in is 50% non-white.?" She might also engage in some reflection on this city and province's history, where the franchise was originally limited to landed white men, where slavery existed, where black people were enslaved, and where the Family Compact reigned for many years, excluding not just non-white people from power, but non-Christians (and non-Protestants), as well. This country, this province and this city were founded on the idea of white supremacy. As BLM has said, "the system isn't broken, it was built that way." And, indeed, it was.  Whiteness, of course, is not the only privilege there is, but it is a privilege, whether Wente wants to admit to it or not.