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A Michigan school district pushed students and their families to "join a Black Lives Matter or an affiliated protest," for its "21 Day Equity Challenge."

Staff at a Michigan public schools district have been invited to participate in a 21-day challenge, with sessions on racism, identity, microaggressions and activism.

That… was ROFL hilarious. To further digress, the meme is a take-off of the classic “Twilight Zone” episode, “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.” Bottom line: the memes were funny. Except to Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, that is. As reported by The Blaze, Ms. Seyer-Ochi is a San Francisco public school teacher who not only saw no humor in the Bernie memes; in her mind, mittens-wearing, bundled-up Bernie Sanders at the inauguration embodied the “privilege trifecta”: “White privilege,” “class pri...

Why take the tweet down? why is some anonymous person or other famous figure typing on their cell phone or computer going to affect you? they are not. but, again, twitter mobs. ainsley: they make it into something so big. people are writing back to reese witherspoon this is pure class privilege. he was the one who wanted to take away lgbtq rights. and then things about the war. susan sarandon tweeting out he is a war criminal. i mean, she just said cant we all get along? even if we have differen...

>> disproportionately. 70% of americas servers are women. some 40% of them are people of color. it absolutely is those who do not have the traditional benefits of class privilege. >> maya, the president was asked about the possibility of a recession yesterday and i just want to play for folks what he had to say. >> the fake news of which many of you are members, is trying to convince the public to have a recession. lets have a recession. the united states is doing phenomenally well. >> look, nob...

He had sat through the trial, he was very familiar with the evidence. he knew that not only was she probably guilty of everything that we were found guilty of but that she would probably eat all the awdws, the assaults with a deadly weapon, because she was the only one that fired a weapon the whole time. she got a five-year probation out of that, when we were doing six years in the pen. >> protected by guards hired by her family and entering a limousine, mrs. hrs must be aware should would charg...

The awdws, the assaults with a deadly weapons. >> ms. hearst must have been aware that she received a special brand of justice for the rich. >> privilege began to come through. the class privilege she was rejecting when she was with us. but all of a sudden, her class privilege was what was going do protect her. as soon as we were convicted in los angeles, they needed somebody to claim responsibility for her kidnapping. well, six of the people who kidnapped her were dead. there were only two peop...

Suggesting that all white people are wealthy or powerful or rich or have material success. when i talk about white privilege, i mean the general day-to-day advantages that generally come from being a member of the dominant group, just like able-bodied privilege or money privilege, class privilege. one of the biggest privileges, and what i was trying to speak to the other night on the special, is the privilege when youre white of not really having to think about your racial identity on a day-to-d...

Of its own, a theme that has dominated the race cycle for the questions it raises around race and corporate responsibility. joining me now is myra gaye, editorial board member and opinion writer for the "new york times," and kirsten john, and tim weiss, anti-racism activist and author of "white like me: reflexes r reflections on race from a privileged son." let me set it up this way. tim, you were part of a conversation we had on race tuesday night in philadelphia, and you talked about white pri...

He had sat through the whole trial. he was very familiar with the evidence. he knew that not only was she probably guilty of everything that we were found guilty of, but that she would probably eat all the adws, the assaults with a deadly weapon because shes the only one who fired a weapon the whole time. she got a five year probation out of that. when we were doing six years in the pen. >> protected by guards hired by her family, ms. hearst had been aware the charge she received a special bran...