The woman who coined the term “white privilege” and is credited as the founder of the modern movement of the same name, has acknowledged that privilege in our society comes in many different forms, depending on the many variables and circumstances that impact individual lives.

It’s much more than just a racial thing.

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In an article published by WND.com, writer Susan J. Calloway Knowles calls the “white privilege” movement “one of the most creative schemes (progressives) ever dreamed up and pulled out of their bag of tricks in an effort to divide the races.”

She also notes that Peggy McIntosh, a feminist who is credited with coining the phrase “white privilege” and the concept behind it, did not necessarily believe that white people are devils, simply because they are white.

While McIntosh clearly believes there are inherent, unearned and unfair advantages to being white in America – an idea no reasonable person could completely debunk, – she also places “white privilege” on a long list of privileges that some humans enjoy, and others are denied, for lots of different reasons.

“What I believe is that everybody has a combination of unearned advantage and unearned disadvantage in life,” McIntosh said in a 2014 interview, according to Calloway. “Whiteness is just one of the many variables that one can look at, starting with, for example, one’s place in the birth order, or your body type, or your athletic abilities, or your relationship to written and spoken words, or your parents’ places of origin, or your parents’ relationship to education and to English, or what is projected onto your religious or ethnic background.

“We’re all put ahead and behind by the circumstances of our birth. We all have a combination of both. And it changes minute by minute, depending on where we are, who we’re seeing, or what we’re required to do.”

While that certainly does not make it right for one racial group to automatically enjoy advantages sometimes denied to other groups, it certainly puts the concept of “white privilege” into perspective.

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Progressives try to make race the all-encompassing issue in American society. They paint a picture of all white Americans living the good life while all non-whites are unfairly trapped into lives of poverty, injustice and general second-class citizenship, simply because they are not white.

Of course that’s absurdly simplistic, because, as McIntosh herself admits, one’s fate is largely an individual issue, based on an infinite number of characteristics and circumstances.

Some individuals experience success because they work to overcome challenges and barriers, fair or unfair. Others waste their time, and get nowhere, by whining about the injustice of it all.

That begs a simple question – are the white progressives behind the “white privilege” movement doing minority citizens any service by trying to convince them that the cards are stacked against them, and the answer is anger, finger-pointing and even more racial discord?