Hostility towards white folks ? Are you fucking serious ? After Hurricane Katrina , black people were looting for food and white people were finding food . 30 years ago , urban blacks were wrecked by crack , got called criminals , thugs , locked up , tough on crime , etc . Today , rural whites are wrecked by heroin . How many people on TV are talking about locking up heroin users ? After a black guy shoots up , people talk about thugs . After a brown guy shoots up , people talk about terrorists and ISIS . After a white guy shoots up , people talk about mental health . Where ' s the hostility towards whites again ? That ' s what we mean when we talk about white privilege . No matter if you ' re rich or poor , whites in America will always get much more sympathy and benefit of the doubt than blacks .