I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.

Anybody can

If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live.

This is a financial and not a racial consideration

I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.

I have a neighbor who is a right bastard. He shines lights in my windows on purpose. How can you be sure of something like that?

I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.

I haven't ever seen any black people followed and harassed while shopping. Where does this come from?

I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.

Works for black and white. Turn to WB, BET, MTV. Now, Native American, I can see as underrepresented.

When I am told about our national heritage or about "civilization," I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.

If it happens to be true for your particular national heritage, what's wrong with that?

I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.

I've been to high school. No race is purposely hidden.

If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.

As opposed to what? Who couldn't?

I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods which fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser's shop and find someone who can cut my hair.

If you walk into a music shop, the rap section will be huge. Food? Name a specifically racial food. I could maybe see a problem with hairdressers outside a large metropolitan area, but finding a good anything out in the sticks is hard.

Whether I use checks, credit cards, or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the appearance of financial reliability.

When paying with cash or credit card financial reliability doesn't enter into it. Check acceptance has to do with location. In poor areas of the city they don't take anybody's check. Neither do they in all of New York City.

I can arrange to protect my children most of the time from people who might not like them.

Do white kids have special armed guards?

I can swear, or dress in second hand clothes, or not answer letters, without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals,the poverty, or the illiteracy of my race.

OK. I'll give her that one.

I can speak in public to a powerful male group without putting my race on trial.

I'm not sure what that means. Trial? Maybe the groups I have been in haven't been powerful enough.

I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race.

Yes, some people can be annoyingly patronizing like that. I'll have to concede white people don't have to deal with that.

I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group.

I have been. Feel better?

I can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of color who constitute the world's majority without feeling in my culture any penalty for such oblivion.

She certainly has a way with words. Once I learn to eschew obfuscation, maybe I will figure out what this means.

I can criticize our government and talk about how much I fear its policies and behavior without being seen as a cultural outsider.

Again, this is a cultural rather than racial question. I am white, yet I still am an outsider.

I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to "the person in charge," I will be facing a person of my race.

Many persons in charge I have dealt with were not my race. Starting with my high school principal. I can add several supervisors to that.

If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven't been singled out because of my race.

I don't recall IRS asking about race on the tax returns. How can they possibly single you out because of something they don't know? Police, is a different story, but how can you lump them together?

I can easily buy posters, postcards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys, and children's magazines featuring people of my race.

Again, I can see maybe American Natives not being able to find dolls that look like them, but that's about it. You want Black Barbie? Go to Wal-Mart.

I can go home from most meetings of organizations I belong to feeling somewhat tied in, rather than isolated, out-of-place, out numbered, unheard, held at a distance, or feared.

Why in the world would you belong to an organization where you are isolated, out-of-place, out numbered, unheard, held at a distance, or feared? Not that it doesn't happen, but that is why I don't belong to any. Seems to be more a matter of personal choice than race.

I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having coworkers on the job suspect that I got it because of race.

Provided you get it.

I can choose public accommodation without fearing that people of my race cannot get in or will be mistreated in the places I have chosen.

Any place that will try to deny admission based on race will be sued into poverty.

I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help, my race will not work against me.

So can anybody. Even not having any money and being in the country illegally won't work against you.

If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.

Nobody needs to, but many like to.

I can choose blemish cover or bandages in flesh color and have them more or less match my skin.

Considering that bandages are made in pretty un-lifelike colors in general, I don't see the significance. I do wonder where those people covered in Disney characters come from, though...

So, to sum it up, out of 26 reasons for why whites have it better, two and a half hold water, two are not that understandable, and 21.5 are bunk.