I really enjoyed the text Racial Formation much more than White Privilege.  The second text was a smaller point of view encompassed in Racial Formation.  And it also felt very whiny and gave no real solutions to the problems faced in this country by minorities.  It just stated a few issues and left me more bored than anything else.  But Racial Formation had a lot more background information.  It was brief, only twelve pages, but looked at the issues surrounding race and racism from multiple points.  Even though the passage came to similar conclusions as White Privilege, it made a much better argument for them.  It also showed some of the flaws of the liberal point of view, as well as discussing the pros and cons of the  neoconservative point of view.  It allowed me to better understand my own point of view and where it fits into two of the major points of view.  I personally have a view closer to the neoconservative view, but it's more moderate and falls somewhere in between the two points of view.  The past needs to be studied and remembered, else we are doomed to repeat it.  And equal rights in this country have really only been around for fifty years of the countries almost two hundred and fifty year history, so there is still work to be done.  But I don't want to live in the past and exaggerate the problems of the present as the liberal point of view does.  And reading Racial Formation help solidify these beliefs but also opened my eyes to some of the struggles still faced.  It was a very enlightening read.