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The thing is, "white privilege" or "white skin privilege" isn't an issue of black and white. It's white vs. non-white.
The fairest member of a Latino family, who gets more attention from her aunts and uncles than her darker cousins benefits from "white skin privilege."
A white woman who can walk through a nice boutique without being scrutinized for possibly being a thief benefits from her "white privilege."
A mulatto or quadroon slave who was able to escape to the North by passing, or who worked in the house instead of the fields benefitted (in a perverse way, to be sure) from his/her "white skin privilege."
To be sure, all racial groups experience discrimination. For the majority group to deny that they receive privileges from being a member of that group is simply naive.
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