I'm not white and I don't feel guilty - nor should white people who aren't racist. My point is that white guilt and white racism are two sides of the same coin. The endless hunt for new forms of oppression which do not legally exist in America, such as the caste system, has the extremely undesirable effect of actually defining and codifying them into law here, even if that law is intended initially to protect some groups from discrimination. There does not need to be a law or a movement specifically privileging one type of discrimination over another, or affording special protection to one group over another. It creates a perverse incentive to define oneself in terms of oppression and forces one to be part of an oppressed group one doesn't necessarily identify with just because they have the same color skin. That box - brown people vs white people - is created and perpetuated by white people, even or especially those who think they're doing the world a service. They're not. You treat everyone equally. Speak up against anyone who doesn't. That's all you need to do. Not tell people that they're oppressed because of what you perceive or imagine their experience to be. I don't need your checkbox on the hiring form to get special dispensation, and I don't want it on the hiring form because it has zero to do with my ability.