I'm not fifth generation anything, except for perhaps Penguin. I don't play identity politics because I find it retrograde and stupid.
White people are the overall majority of people full stop. Sure, they're over-represented in beneficial careers and places of power, but I would expect that given the UK class system.
Where it becomes problematic is that you're inferring that all privilege is a result of skin colour. Some is. Some isn't. More importantly in a predominantly white country in which the majority of white people are working class/lower middle class, you want them to vote for progressive change. You can demonise them all you want and call them bigots and racists, but they'll just show up and vote in their own interests.
The discourse is currently dominated by people who are prepared to blame everything on skin colour, it will come back and bite everyone on the ass at election time. Perhaps not so much in the UK, where we've somewhat mitigated these things but certainly in the US. Embracing identity politics is the wrong strategic move for society to take and divides everyone against everyone else in a zero sum game your comment adequately demonstrates.
Both your parents died? You got trafficked around the country as a sex slave? You got addicted to drugs and alcohol and put in jail? You left and were homeless living on the streets and had liver failure? Bollocks to you, you're white. It's your ancestors fault for not making the best of their business in the 1960s. Not really the sort of society I want to see develop.
You can read more on my economic arguments for reducing racism here.
