Is white privilege real? To what extent?

[thesummerqueen]

I think that the term white privilege is used in the context of dominantly white and deeply racist nation/culture which has both engaged in the systematic oppression of minorities at every conceivable level of power right down to the day to day lives of it's citizenry...and seems to be deeply opposed to even -recognizing- that they continue to do so..even unintentionally or unconsciously.

That I agree with and there is no argument there. However, any nation is capable of racism, in spite of what we think.

No offense, but so what? If we understand that America has a white privilege/black racism problem, how does saying "but other forms of problems exist too" help at all? Yeah, sure there's still anti-Semitism and it should be addressed, but no one's going out and shooting Jews for walking while bagel'ing. Clearly one problem has a form of immediacy that needs addressing.