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Now, welcome to the award-winning best-of-the-left podcast with Cups Today from the Young Turks,

the David Pakman Show, Disorderly Conduct, and Moyers & Company.

And to note to all the white people, go ahead and pull out your self-flaggillation whips.

It's time for our ritualized penance for our original sin of slavery that we are all totally responsible for.

Bill O'Reilly was talking about white privilege. It's a subject that's been going around in the news in the past week.

Talfort Gang is a young conservative who says he doesn't need to check his privilege.

And now there's a class or an orientation course, I suppose, that is going to be required at Ivy League University at Harvard.

And they are debating whether or not this makes sense.

Let's see if you can guess before we roll the video. Does Bill O'Reilly believe in the notion of white privilege?

Let's think about it.

Now in some of the words white privilege or code, they really mean white supremacy.

White privilege reverend, what does that mean to you?

Well, white privilege speaks to the benefits that some enjoy based on their race in this society.

It doesn't speak to their advantage or their inclination of any individual.

I'm a really white guy. When I was in Hawaii last week, I couldn't go in the sun.

I was in the sun for three minutes. My ears would fall off.

Now I'm from Levittown, as you might know, out of Long Island.

And my parents didn't have a lot of money.

Do I have white privilege? Am I privileged in any way under this banner?

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