Great point. This is part of why I listed being a minority as a “privilege” that Ocasio-Cortez arguably has. I described it like this:

belonging to a minority group in an age when that status opens many doors that might otherwise be closed (and, yes, being white in America today might still confer some limited advantages in certain ways, but in the end, if I had to choose to be born into a particular racial group with the goal of maximizing how propped-up and sought-after I would be in the upper echelons of our society, “white” is the last choice I’d make in 2019)