I don't think us (white people) are supposed to feel guilty. It's hard to feel guilty about something that you aren't responsible for. It's really more about acknowledging racial inequalities and trying to support political and social ideas that can help balance/reverse the damage caused by centuries of discrimination and racism. It's about being honest about the truth of our history rather than trying to hide it. And this applies not just to racism and mistreatment of blacks in the U.S. but also to Native Americans, Asians, and LGBTQ people.

I’m a white guy and there is a degree of white privilege but I don’t feel any guilt. I didn’t have anything to with the society I was born into, it’s just the way it is.

I did not ask to be white in the same way that the rest of the people in the world did not ask to be whatever color designation they are classified in. White is a privilege as long as the main numbers of people in power remain white. I do not personally care about that in any way, nor am I worried about any change that is coming. I can marry any woman that will have me without race being an issue. My money is mine and your money is yours. I have no white guilt or shame. As for the white supremacists I simply wish they would go away.

Being a woman, albeit a white one, and having worked in construction/manufacturing for most of my life, sometimes the Only woman in the entire place, or one of the many female drones doing the actual work in other places, I definitely have seen it....even before I knew what is was, it had no name back then. From the cops who told bloody me to "try harder to get along with him" to the loan officer who wouldn't consider my paycheck (hubby was a sot drunk!) "Because you're going to get pregnant" to the chef who demanded, on my second day, that I sit on his lap (my option(s): quit, period) all when I was still in my 20's, to being Totally invisible in the sub-building industry, and then becoming a token Supervisor....still totally invisible! And after a serious stroke, being told by the Disability Examiner that I most certainly could get a job, as a circus geek.....and we're only up to age 39 here......
And looking around, and hearing women of color talk about Their lives, I am completely aware that i had a Day At The Beach thruout!!!!!!

White privilege is unearned privilege which enables white people to feel superior to, exploit, and dominate people of color and people of different cultures. .It is unjust and hurts both those who use it and those who are discriminated against.. I grew up as a white man in a culture of white privilege in the American south. I do not use or practice white privilege, so I do not feel guilty. I am, however, ashamed of that culture and history. . I seek to change that culture because it is immoral and it hurts our country.

I do not expect that who practice an seek white privilege to feel guilt. They ignore the truth and rationalize their behavior. They, therefore, are incapable of facing the truth about their inherent racism so long as they ignore the truth.