White People: Working Racist Strategies Since Slavery

Today's "colorblind" patriots - just doing what they think is right - by whites

"When black people break the law or flout social norms in the United States, the public conversation immediately turns to the broader concept of blackness itself,...What is wrong, we ask, with African Americans? 

When white people misbehave, however, they rarely represent more than themselves, even when they're members of an organization like, say, SAE,...They are routinely defended with excuses of inebriation, misspeaking, and unintentional bigotry. Even then, being white often means doing wrong without bringing your entire race into it,...This is what privilege is: to speak and act only for yourself, and only when you feel like it."