Unfortunately I have to disagree that destigmatizing the word "privilege" would go far enough. Beyond the aggressive manner in which it's applied to whites, it also teaches whites to assign undue self-guilt to themselves over the difficulties of their non-white neighbors. This can happen even when "white privilege" is spoken nicely to said whites. That in turn gives the aggressive "woke" types leverage to execute their discriminatory ideas. People should not be made to suffer guilt over circumstances that might have given them better fortune if they did not intentionally make use of those circumstances. If they want to feel that way about themselves, they can do it on their own.

What we should talk about instead is the bias that may sometimes be directed at people different from themselves. I by no means dismiss the presence of bias - or what you might call racism - in areas such as hiring. I believe that there are ways to improve diversity in the workplace without resorting to nudging out white candidates. For example, a business can expand its advertising for jobs in geographic or online locations where non-whites would be more likely to learn about them.

With regard to journalism, the talent pool may be wider within the white racial group, or it may not be. The point I meant to make is that a simple disparity like that should not be treated as smoking-gun evidence of racism. The dominance of black players in the NBA could be seen that way, or it could just be a result to the popularity of basketball in the black community, and the fact that basketball is simpler game to organize in poorer, more compact neighborhoods than, say, ice hockey or baseball. Let that not be construed as me trying to associate blacks with poor, urban neighborhoods.