To start, make a note. White people, when stopped by cops, might be frustrated, but they do not feel like they might die. THAT is an example of "White Privilege." It is not one (1) thing white people have, it is MANY things white people have in White America.
"Why America is coming apart at the seams"
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
http://theweek.com/articles/729324/why-america-coming-apart-seams
"At the center of this ("collective nervous breakdown") is politics, which has become a tribal battle between Team Blue and Team Red. And quite often, at the center of our political battles is race.
Tweety is a lone wolf by his own words. He has lived his life disrupting everyone, building his own internal "Wall" to keep people at arms length, and he has no real friends or confidants because of his wish to be like Howard Hughes. As a loner, he keeps an emotional distance that is uncanny for one who has to work with people to get his "work" done, whatever he sees, at nearly 72, as his "work."
The distant, cold person, Tweety, is amplified in his Presidency because of the power America gives to him. He surely will end as the same way Hughes did, but after what harm he brings to America, and the World only time will tell.
Many said it before Tweety was elected, and many have said it since, that Tweety is going to destroy American "Democracy," not that such a thing would be that bad. Our "Democracy" is not a real democracy, but rather more a PLUTOCRACY every day. The plutocracy grows daily, amplified by Tweety's lust for more golden trophies.
GOLD rules Tweety, and he will do everything he can to have more gold than any man ever while he is President.
"Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person..."
Gina Crosley-Corcoran
thefeministbreeder.com
http://occupywallstreet.net/story/explaining-white-privilege-broke-white-person
Here is Peggy McIntosh list 1-26. There are at least 24 more! This was published in 1989. Did Bill O'Reilly ignore it or just avoid it?
"I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.
If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live.
I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.
I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.
I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.
When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization,” I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.
I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.
If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.
I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods that fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser’s shop and find someone who can cut my hair.
Whether I use checks, credit cards or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the appearance of financial reliability.
I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who might not like them.
I can swear, or dress in second-hand clothes, or not answer letters, without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty, or the illiteracy of my race.
I can speak in public to a powerful male group without putting my race on trial.
I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race.
I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group.
I can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of color who constitute the world’s majority without feeling in my culture any penalty for such oblivion.
I can criticize our government and talk about how much I fear its policies and behavior without being seen as a cultural outsider.
I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to “the person in charge,” I will be facing a person of my race.
If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven’t been singled out because of my race.
I can easily buy posters, postcards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys, and children’s magazines featuring people of my race.
I can go home from most meetings of organizations I belong to feeling somewhat tied in, rather than isolated, out-of-place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a distance, or feared.
I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of race.
I can choose public accommodations without fearing that people of my race cannot get in or will be mistreated in the places I have chosen.
I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help, my race will not work against me.
If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.
I can choose blemish cover or bandages in “flesh” color and have them more less match my skin."
The President of the United States is dividing the country into tribes of poor, black, white, brown, and religions. His recent foray into "flag politics" is an example, His failure to condemn White Nationalists is a sincere manner is an example. Tweety lumps people fighting fascism with White Nationalists saying "Jews will not replace us!"
Part of the detailing of this thing called "White Privilege"
"White privilege denotes both obvious and less obvious passive advantages that white people may not recognize they have, which distinguishes it from overt bias or prejudice. These include cultural affirmations of one's own worth; presumed greater social status; and freedom to move, buy, work, play, and speak freely. The effects can be seen in professional, educational, and personal contexts."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege
White people's denial, Bill O'Reilly's stupid rant against the existence of White Privilege, is just red neck-like stupidity. Of course there is white privilege in America! Denial of White Privilege because you are poor, unemployed, or ignorant is idiotic. Black people can be all those things, but White Priviege goes much deeper and is more subtle at times than white people want to believe.
American CULTURE has ingrained in it that "black" itself is evil, and a gathering of black men is scary to white people.
"Gina Crosley-Corcoran in her Huffington Post article, "Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person", says that she was initially hostile to the idea that she had white privilege, initially believing, "my white skin didn't do shit to prevent me from experiencing poverty", until she was directed to read Peggy McIntosh's "Unpacking the invisible knapsack". According to Crosley-Corcoran, "the concept of intersectionality recognizes that people can be privileged in some ways and definitely not privileged in others".[11] Other writers have noted that the "academic-sounding concept of white privilege" sometimes elicits defensiveness and misunderstanding among white people, in part due to how the concept of white privilege was rapidly brought into the mainstream spotlight through social media campaigns such as Black Lives Matter.[12] Cory Weinburg, writing for Inside Higher Ed, has also stated that the concept of white privilege is frequently misinterpreted by non-academics because it is an academic concept that has been recently been brought into the mainstream. Academics interviewed by Weinburg, who have been otherwise studying white privilege undisturbed for decades, have been taken aback with the seemingly-sudden hostility from right-wing critics since 2014.[13]"
""White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" and "Some Notes for Facilitators"
"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"
Downloadable PDF
© 1989 Peggy McIntosh
https://nationalseedproject.org/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack
"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" first appeared in Peace and Freedom Magazine, July/August, 1989, pp. 10-12, a publication of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia, PA.
Anyone who wishes to reproduce more than 35 copies of this article must apply to the author, Dr. Peggy McIntosh, at mmcintosh@wellesley.edu. This article may not be electronically posted except by the National SEED Project.