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CNN legal analyst Areva Martin thought she was talking to a white man on Tuesday while appearing as a guest on David Webb's SiriusXM radio show.

When Webb, a frequent Fox News contributor, said he considered his qualifications more important than his skin color when applying to jobs in journalism, Martin accused him of exercising white privilege.

But there's a problem with that sentiment, as Webb quickly pointed out:

"Areva, I hate to break it to you, but you should've been better prepped," he responded. "I'm black."

The exchange was posted to Twitter by Webb on Tuesday afternoon. He's heard in the interview saying, "I've chosen to cross different parts of the media world, done the work so that I'm qualified to be in each one; I never considered my color the issue; I considered my qualifications the issue."

Martin responds: "Well, David, that's a whole other long conversation about white privilege, the things that you have the privilege of doing, that people of color don't have the privilege of."

"How do I have the privilege of white privilege?," Webb asks.

"David, by virtue of being a white male you have white privilege. This whole long conversation, I don't have time to get into -"