Some thoughts on a reader email that I just received (apropos this interview with a Black school board candidate theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…), which begins: 
First, if there's a viewpoint that black as well as white people hold, isn't "white fragility" a very strange name to give it?
Second, if you're a black kid with rich, highly educated parents, attending school in a wealthy suburban district, there is, in fact, no system that forecloses your ability to be a lawyer, let alone *the same system* as enslaved people faced.
I always want to steelman viewpoints, and there are sophisticated definitions of *white privilege* and even*whiteness* that I could sign on to in substance, *but the steelman versions are not what's filtering down to K through 12 education*
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