In order to understand what's taking place in our society, we have to look at the structure clearly. Of course, terrible people come in all sort of stripes and there are plenty of terrible white women to go around, but the fact of the matter is, in our patriarchal dominance hierarchy, white men still hold the bulk of the institutional power.

There are more Fortune 500 CEOs named John than there are women in that category. Until 60 years ago this country was overtly by and for white men, and the laws reflected that. The media still today depicts them as the normative citizen even though they make up only 30% of the populace. White men are still the overwhelmingly vast majority of the social structure, which means that they are disproportionately responsible for the inequity in our culture. This was a nation built by and for white men's interests and that hasn't really changed all that much. Pretending that isn't so is just defensiveness.