White people love to feel good about themselves by feeling bad about being white — nothing makes them feel more virtuous than apologizing for being white. It automatically makes you a good white person if you apologize for the sins of other white people who, unlike yourself, are bad, racist white people. The trouble is, there aren’t enough of those bad white people to account for how awful things are for blacks. That’s too irrational - so that’s why they invented “institutional racism.” That’s how you explain black — and now Hispanic — failure when you can’t point to real, live, breathing, drooling white people who are trampling on blacks. Institutions somehow keep down the non-whites. But institutional racism isn’t satisfying. You can’t feel genuinely bad about being white if the problem is institutions. That’s too abstract. So that’s why “white privilege” or “white skin privilege” was invented. What makes “white privilege” so attractive is that it’s personal. All white people have it. At the same time, it’s not like admitting you’re a racist — that would be just too awful. White privilege happens to you passively, whether you know it or not, so it’s not even really your fault. But admitting that you have it and, of course, feeling bad about it, means you are a very sensitive, very good white person.