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Last week I wrote about something my father, who is white, has said for years: when many white Americans hear the phrase “white privilege,” they respond by listing all the ways their lives have been hard. But if you talk about “white advantage,” the conversation changes. Advantage is measurable. It doesn’t erase suffering. It simply acknowledges that race still tilts the system. After that column ran, readers reached out asking me to elaborate.  To understand why, we have to go back…]]>