Victor Davis Hanson // National Review
Rich whites invent minority pedigrees to gain advantage while they condemn poor and working-class rural whites as racist.
You hear the phrase “white privilege” nonstop in America these days, as the slogan has transcended the campus and entered popular culture.
Historically, the term apparently refers to the original European settlers who came to the United States and later equated the protections of the U.S. Constitution solely with their own majority ethnicity and race — a tribal and chauvinistic mindset that still governs politics and immigration the world over, from China and Japan to most African and South American countries.
