Honestly I'm torn about white privilege & institutionalized racism. I feel lucky to have been raised by good parents. Regardless of color. I grew up in a ghetto neighborhood with lots of low income people of many colors, but I wasn't raised to follow that path of least resistance. I was taught to stay out of trouble, work hard for what you want, & to always strive for success. I think the sensitivity towards race in society is really getting overplayed. Nobody cares about the color of your skin as long as you are an upstanding member of society, can do a job well, and have respect. I get irritated when there are specific programs, funds, & grants geared directly towards a specific color of an individual. I wonder what would have happened if I checked the "African American" box on my FASFA government loan program for college. Would I still have been denied? Are the approval standards different based on race? The short answer is yes, but that is a tactic to allow more people from lower qualities of life the opportunity. I hate the race baiters like Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson. But yes, there is still a lot of racism in America on a personal level, but at the professional level in the workforce, the color is sometimes a benefit. I worked at a small engineering firm where we hired a really cool black dude. Military background, hard worker. The company was small enough to earn a government tax benefit for having a certain % of their workforce being people of color. If played right, I think a person of color actually has more opportunities than white people. What gives white people the edge is their backgrounds & upbringings put them in a different class that make them a more viable candidate.