every race has certain privileges. hell ever group can( im a vet and i use those privileges ) but checking your privilege seem retarded to me. its not your fault its there . its a way to make your self feel better by shaming yourself.

Exactly, I agree.

I see this hypocrisy with the current attempts at segregating schools and campuses so that "blacks don't feel intimidated by the whites," I can't help but shake my head and I know plenty of older colored people who had experienced unfair segregation firsthand are thinking "what the hell? We fought so that your generation wouldn't have to go through this!"

In one case I heard of a school, either in Europe or America, where the children were separated during history class into a group of white children and a group of black children. The black children were told how they are oppressed and deserve special treatment, and they'd give them candy and treats. The white children were told how they are racist no matter what, and they need to treat the black children with special care.

This isn't progressive at all, it's harming both sets of children. The black children will feel entitled, which will decrease the amount of effort they'll put into their future and set them behind, and the white children will learn to be envious of the black children because honestly, all they see is their friends being handed candy for their skin color.

I know there was a petition to stop this treatment, but I haven't heard anything else about it since last year. Either way, it definitely inflicted damage upon these children.

Yes, I know colored people who come from bad neighborhoods (and most anyone from a bad neighborhood regardless of color) will have a harder time than someone from middle or higher class. That to me isn't really racist, if it were, then there would be absolutely no colored people in middle or higher class neighborhoods. While there is significantly less, they're still there, just as there are plenty of white people in lower class neighborhoods.

Giving special privileges due to color and race does two things, it entitles the person provided these things off the basis of their color and teaches them not to work hard to get what they want, and breeds actual racism by telling underprivileged whites that even though they can't get into higher education or better work because of their background, they're still screwed because they're white and don't deserve special treatment.

It's harming both sides.

A really good "artsy" look at this situation would be to check out Neel Kolhatkar's mini-films on social issues. He presents ideas such as racism, sexism, and SJW harm in a very neutral way, presenting both extremes in their worst skins.

Three that come to mind are #Equality, a 3 minute long look at what the modern feminist dreams about (women legally cannot be disagreed with, white men are slaughtered, everything offensive has been destroyed and outlawed, and he and she pronouns are no longer existing,) Modern Educayshun, which showcases the direction schools seem to be heading in by giving women and minorities different grading levels than straight white men, and The Privilege Game, which plays out as a literal game played by a left wing white woman with a virtue signaling complex, a right wing white man with too much money, and in the middle a black woman and another man just trying to get by without special privileges.

His videos actually convinced me that I was leaning too far right in my convictions, and that I really should take a look at it from both sides, not attaching to either side or taking one side too seriously over another, but to rather come up with my own conclusions based on the evidence I have dug up myself.

(Can't watch the video at the moment, so I'm going off just what you've written.)

I tend to agree. I do think white privilege is a very real thing, but I also think we're doing a very shitty job at trying to offer solutions to it. Statistically, people of color have a much harder time making their way up the ladder than white people, especially if they come from rough neighborhoods. I don't really understand why black people don't feel more belittled when they're given a job position just because they're black, that that is the "tie breaker" between two people that are equally qualified for the job (if both are qualified at all in the first place). Not only is the racist and discriminative towards white people, but it's also racist towards people of color. How would you feel if the reason you were hired wasn't because of your skills and hard work, but because of the color of your skin? I'd feel a bit snubbed, personally. To me, it'd feel the same if a man hired me because he thought I looked attractive and not because of my qualifications. Yet people of color don't see it this way. They feel, instead, entitled to the job they're given, regardless of why they're given it. (Sorry for the broad generalization -- obviously not all black people think and feel this way.)

But I also don't think it's only white people and their privilege that make it hard for people of color.

See, white privilege isn't exactly a conscious, intentional thing (much like sexism as well). It's systemic. Divisive stereotypes are thrust upon each side, and these stereotypes keep being reinforced. And to be completely honest and fair, black people aren't exactly helping themselves out when it comes to these stereotypes. White people can neither say "We're all the same, so let's all get along," nor say "I acknowledge our differences, I see how we're different," without seriously pissing off black people. I don't feel that this logical or fair. And they may well say, "Well, what we go through every day isn't logical or fair," but, as the saying goes, two wrongs don't make a right. And I think, ultimately, it would make things easier on them if they'd stop demanding to have it both ways.