"Imagine experiencing some of the disadvantages that are statistically attributed to black disadvantage — poverty, having trouble finding a job, can’t get a loan, ect. — only to be told that you are still privileged for being white. "

When the concept of white privilege comes up with a poor white person or family, they're not usually told, out of the blue, that they're still privileged. In my experience of this debate, it usually comes up because that white person is insisting that there's no such thing as white privilege. To which the reply should be an acknowledgment of their struggles and a reminder that none of their circumstances happened because of the color of their skin. (And yes, obviously there's a class divide within the white community which positions some people to have 2 or 3 strikes against them from the get-go, but that's not color.)

In this context, acknowledging 'privilege' doesn't imply anyone's better, but that they are treated differently in society because of their skin color.