White privilege is not something you always experience. It can be what you don't experience as well.
You won't ever experience this:
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/books/blog/2009/07/henry_louis_gates_arrested_cha.html
Henry Louis

ing Gates. You can't find a more prominent living black scholar in the United States. Not by a long shot. Maybe Elijah Anderson, but I'm straying from the point.
Now, when you read the synopsis of the Gates' arrest, and you come up with excuses and rationalizations that explain why it makes sense that he was arrested, you'll discover another aspect of white privilege: the ability to quickly, efficiently, and sufficiently explain away anthing that looks like it might be that big bad "RACISM" demon you so frequently seek to exorcize. When you read about differential treatment patterns of people, with race the only thing that changes, and TIME AND TIME AGAIN in our era you see that blacks are treated worse, receive worse health care (for the same insurance), are denied access to housing, to rental property, to jobs, to promotions...and you have an explanation and excuse that tries to deny the inherent racism of it all...that, my friends, is white privilege.
Keep your strawmen at bay; I've read enough "anytime you criticize a black person, it's racism" bullshit for five lifetimes. You don't need to respond. Think about it. Sit and let the idea fester for a bit. Ask yourself this: what was the last thing I read, the last thing I saw, the last thing I heard about that I **KNEW** was racism in action. Think about that. How far back do you have to go? How many excuses have you made for reinforcing inequality in our society?
None of us are perfect, ever. But being willingly compliant with allowing racial inequality to proceed, and trying to push the absurd "color-blind society" notion that you all do, is damnable.
Speaking of Gates, I was sitting in the Apple Store yesterday (

ing MacBook Pro is a lemon, man, I swear) - and an older man was throwing a fit of hellfire and brimstone. HE was important. HE was to be taken care of. HE was the customer, and the customer was always RIGHT!
What did he want? He lost one of the plug adapters for his laptop power cable (Macs come with two: a tiny two prong "duck head" and a longer extension cord with a ground on it). He lost the duck head. LOST. HIMSELF. And here he was, in the store, insisting that Apple replace his unit. HE WAS IMPORTANT! (He actually used the "do you know who I am?" line FFS). He was cordoned off from the genius bar (I hate typing that) by four Apple employees, but nevertheless refused to leave, and refused to be quieted. We shall not be overcome, I suppose one might say.
Eventually someone took an old duck head from an old adapter in the back and gave it to him. So he got to act like a child (despite being hifalutin' "DOCTOR SO AND SO") - in front of his own son, teaching his boy the life lesson that, if you make mistakes, and throw enough of a fit, other people will compensate you for your inability to take responsibility for yourself.
Do you think a black man would have received this treatment?
White privilege. A white professor loses his own shit because he's too busy blowing himself intellectually, and gets what he wants by throwing a temper tantrum. Henry Louis Gates gets arrested for going into his own house.