This “privilege” they speak of really is the advantage that light has over the darkness, on any number of levels.
Being simpletons and racists, they use skin color to determine woe is friend or foe. Of course many whites are on team darkness, so while the system is seriously flawed, is it ironically appropriate when the white guilt members are assaulted by their own side. Cognitive dissonance to the rescue!
Being of the darkness, they have a visceral hatred of the light. The light by nature can see what it is doing and where it is going, and can navigate around and avoid darkness. It can go about its business with clarity and direction. They hate that.
Darkness by nature must block all light, lest it be exposed and eliminated. Darkness loses its very identity and properties when light intrudes on the scene.
Note how the skin color ruse is just an excuse for hating the light and truth, because when a dark-skinned person chooses to abide in the camp of light, he’s demonized and accused of being a traitor who forgot his roots. He didn’t forget, he was never of the darkness in the first place.
woe = who, but maybe its fine just like that.