[dragonwriter]

To the extent that description by CNN is approximately correct and relevant, it is only in the sense that “White elites” are “elites, who are predominantly White” and not “Whites, who as a group are elites”.

> I could say a very similar thing about the Jewish people and you'd call me an anti-semite for it.

Well, because factually socioeconomic elites (in America) aren't overwhelmingly Jewish, and we don’t factually have systematic structures favoring disfavoring the non-Jewish throughout society established for the benefit of the elite and protected because they serve the interest of the elites, so, yes ,if you substituted “Jewish” for “White” in what was previously a factually accurate account of structural power dynamics in the US, I would probably accuse you of inventing lies whose most probable motigation was anti-Semitism.