text: John.  I'm glad you are willing to listen to folks who don't quite see things your way.  For starters, let's consider the notion of "rights" versus "privileges".    We all are aware that blacks, women, Catholics, Mormons, Native Americans  and others did not fully share in all citizen rights at the outset of the American Republic.  The Constitution has been modified or amended as time went on with the goal of providing equal rights for all.  Personhood, citizenship, the right to vote, the right to an attorney and so on.  That being said,  I find the phrase "white privilege"  to be racially offensive.  I will fight to defend the rights of others if their rights are denied, but I don't have to apologize or be considered "special" if I exercise the rights granted by the Constitution as amended.