<human>: Can you succinctly summarize the text in 1-3 sentences?

I recently finished reading a series of books (Lies My Teacher Told Me; Guns, Germs and Steel; The Chalice and the Blade) that have basically led me to the conclusion that a whole lot of the problems people in the world (and specifically the USA) have to deal with every day are not the result of the actions of individuals but the collective attitudes of people with power towards people without it. 

The books talk about imperialism, colonialism, racism and sexism, and it seems like unless you're Irish or Jewish, if you're a white male you are pretty much always closer to the perpetrator than the 'perpetratee'. Now, I already view people as equals and although I dislike people (some intensely so) it never comes from a position of prejudice. I just want to know is there anything specifically that I could do differently, and assuming if I in turn started doing them everybody else might start doing them differently, to alleviate attitudes that make life harder for people who are not also privileged white American males? This question is really open for anybody who feels like they don't get a fair shake most of the time. I don't feel like life is a cakewalk or I have life particularly easy as an individual but I just tend to agree with Louis CK: 

For example, I remember reading *By Any Means Necessary* by Malcolm X and he taught people there was a distinct difference between white people in the Middle East and white people in the US, and white people in the US were "white devils." At the time I was 12 and I was curious as to how Malcolm X would have wanted me to act.

It's not that I don't have any friends who are not American privileged white males by any means. Nor is it that I am not comfortable enough with any of them to ask them this, as I have on a few occasions before. I just don't know anywhere else where I could get a large, varied response like I could here.
<bot>: what could you tell a person of moderate privilege to give them a more circumspect view of the world and your specific place in it?