To be honest, I didn't understand what point you were trying to make. Are you agreeing with me or not? I can't tell from your post. It's all over the place. Some of those people make those statements are white like the late Noel Ignatiev. He's an example of a white person who feels good about feeling bad about being white.

The theory behind this is, 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” 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.