'Privilege is wearing $200 sneakers when you’ve
never had a job or $300 Beats headphones
while living on public assistance':
Assistant principal at Staten Island high
school is investigated after ‘racist’
rant on Facebook
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Andrew Court
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/23/2020 3:44:40 PM
The New York City Department of Education has launched an investigation into a troubling Facebook post penned by an employee of a Staten Island high school. Deborah Morse-Cunningham, who serves as the assistant principal of New Dorp High School, is still at work despite sharing a lengthy status update in which she pondered the nature of privilege by referring to a number of racial stereotypes. 'What is privilege?' Morse-Cunningham asked in the post, which has now been deleted.(Snip) 'Privilege is living in public subsidized housing where you don't have a water bill, where rising property taxes and rents and energy costs have
Reply 1 - Posted by:
learner 6/23/2020 3:51:46 PM (No. 454314)
Liberals used to applaud speaking truth to power. Now it is shut up, pay obeisance and lose your job in most cases.
56 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
paral04 6/23/2020 3:52:46 PM (No. 454316)
She needs to run for Congress.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 6/23/2020 3:57:25 PM (No. 454322)
The only liberals are in the Republican party, now, number 1. The Democrats are Marxists. Marxists have only ever spoken lies to power and to everyone else foolish enough to listen.
25 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 6/23/2020 3:59:40 PM (No. 454323)
This remark by the teacher is classic, First Amendment-protected speech, as much as the BLM rants that would be approved by the NYC Dept. of Ed. The difference, of course, is simply one of outlook.
Apparently, free speech is also the exclusive privilege of certain people.
51 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
skacmar 6/23/2020 4:01:07 PM (No. 454326)
I didn't see race mentioned anywhere in the post. Cunningham clearly stated a truth about many of today's protesters, Black, White, Asian, and any other race. The US has the wealthiest "poor & oppressed" people in the world. They are out protesting in their designer clothing, jewelry, newest Air Jordan's, all while apparently not having to worry about going to work or any other type of responsibility as they expect the government to provide for them. Apparently the post hit a little too close to home for the overly sensitive parent who started the petition. How many of the petitioners fit into the category of "protester" that Cunningham was commenting on? Sometimes the truth hurts. Maybe you are offended because you saw yourself in the post.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
marbles 6/23/2020 4:06:07 PM (No. 454332)
She did not mention race.
41 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Nimby 6/23/2020 4:08:17 PM (No. 454334)
And is she wrong?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
volksford 6/23/2020 4:08:35 PM (No. 454335)
Tell it like it is sister !
35 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
TJ54 6/23/2020 4:08:38 PM (No. 454336)
The propagandist writing this screed immediately calls her Facebook comment troubling. That is editorializing not reporting. I found her comment accurate and uplifting. That would have been in my first sentence if I chose to editorialize instead of reporting
38 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
msjena 6/23/2020 4:10:41 PM (No. 454339)
Truth-telling can be very dangerous.
40 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 6/23/2020 4:19:24 PM (No. 454349)
White privilege is a fiction.
Black privilege is REAL, and it is Affirmative Action, it is Welfare, it is Section 8 Housing, it is SNAP, and it is dozens of other free goodies so that mostly black folks never have to work, and never have to want.
Only in the USA in modern times are "poor people" obese and afflicted with lifestyle diseases which are primarily caused by overeating.
42 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 6/23/2020 4:19:36 PM (No. 454350)
I already know the answer but why is ANY criticism or observation termed "racist" no matter who makes it? Many black people are ashamed of all of these nasty attacks on Conservative Blacks and others who work with these kids daily. The kids will have no future except gangs and jails if they refuse to listen. BLM will not be around to pick up the pieces of the ruined or lost lives of the people they are "leading"...they are only the sacrificial lambs on their altar of socialism and anarchy.
15 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 6/23/2020 4:19:53 PM (No. 454351)
As if those people actually paid for those expensive shoes and musical devices in the first place????
16 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Safari Man 6/23/2020 4:22:36 PM (No. 454353)
I understand why she calls it privilege, but its really just good olde fashioned entitlement.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Newtsche 6/23/2020 4:30:48 PM (No. 454367)
Investigated, hmmm, I don't like the sound of that.
Think Beria.
11 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/23/2020 4:31:41 PM (No. 454370)
Better headline, "Teacher Harassed for Daring to Tell the Truth." It used to be the other way around when one was chastised for telling lies. Leftists need to go to hell.
27 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
coyote 6/23/2020 4:33:25 PM (No. 454375)
The charge of racism has nothing to do with race, most of the time. It is mainly a weapon that is used to guard the moat defending their fantasy island.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
HotRod 6/23/2020 4:35:17 PM (No. 454379)
When the truth hurts, its time to look in the mirror! The left wants to erase truth from public discourse, but they never will!
The truth or facts can never be racist. Trying to eliminate them, for a skin color, is!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
ronniethek 6/23/2020 4:39:46 PM (No. 454388)
Which part of the lady's post was factually accurate? I thought so.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mindsport 6/23/2020 4:47:29 PM (No. 454399)
Truth to Power!!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
BirdsNest 6/23/2020 4:50:53 PM (No. 454402)
Some time ago I was in a local convenience store. Guy walks in, sees a woman he knows, asks her " Where are you working? I haven't seen you in awhile". She replied, "Sitting on my a$$, collecting my check". There you go....
12 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
StrikingViking 6/23/2020 4:58:09 PM (No. 454407)
What's "troubling" about this Facebook post is that an American citizen is in danger of losing her job because of opinions she shared outside of her workplace. What's "troubling" is that voicing inconvenient truths will be used against you, notwithstanding the First Amendment rights guaranteed by our Constitution.
22 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 6/23/2020 5:11:49 PM (No. 454418)
The standard of living of the poorest person in America would allow them to live like a king in the third world.
17 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
moebellini3 6/23/2020 5:30:14 PM (No. 454441)
Speak the truth and you get censored. We now live in an upside down world. 2+2 no longer = 4. Got it.
9 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
mathman 6/23/2020 5:32:38 PM (No. 454443)
She will be fired. Only speech which fits the narrative is accepted.
And shoes and earbuds are entitlements.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
rochow 6/23/2020 5:41:17 PM (No. 454457)
That ain't racist, that's just factual information they don't want to hear. Why do you think when revrum Sharpton visited Africa he could not wait to get back to the States. Nutt'n to shake down over there!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 6/23/2020 5:49:10 PM (No. 454464)
The truth is racist? My problem is that she didn’t mention that they all have smart phones. They don’t come cheap. The ones who complained are probably the ones who are getting the free stuff and don’t want to be pointed out. And believe it or not, SI is strongly Republican. She should run for office if they fire her.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/23/2020 5:56:58 PM (No. 454469)
During P.E. all conservative students will begin hour-long sessions of Whack-a-Cracka.
4 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
watashiyo 6/23/2020 5:57:52 PM (No. 454474)
Denial corrupts the moral fiber of our community. Those who fit the profiles written on Facebook run from accountability, always complaining about what they don't have and most likely will never be "useful and productive", in their society. And their children repeat the same cycle because they see their parents as role models while growing up.
8 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
sciteach 6/23/2020 6:28:53 PM (No. 454497)
Boy, how the truth hurts. Tell it and the libs heads just explode.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/23/2020 6:39:07 PM (No. 454513)
Fakebook is calling this racist? Its clear that the Assistant Principal went out of her way to make a statement devoid of race. The statement is not racist, but Fakebook employs free speech police that go around censoring free speech..
9 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/23/2020 6:41:33 PM (No. 454516)
Actually nobody has to say a word, just vote on November 3rd and then stand back and watch the leftists and liberals heads blow off!
8 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 6/23/2020 6:49:44 PM (No. 454521)
America. A nation whose poor people are fat.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
goodolmom 6/23/2020 7:14:25 PM (No. 454534)
Unfortunately there's a change.org petition calling for her firing rapidly gaining signatures. I didn't see a thing wrong in her post.
2 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
Ruhn 6/23/2020 7:48:47 PM (No. 454569)
Far better for truth to hurt than allow lies to kill.
3 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
Folsomguy 6/23/2020 7:50:55 PM (No. 454571)
What's most disturbing is that people automatically assume she IS talking about blacks. LBJ's legacy continues.
11 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
Southron 6/23/2020 8:07:02 PM (No. 454593)
She said publicly what everyone knows but will not say.
7 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
or gate 6/23/2020 8:14:06 PM (No. 454597)
You can not argue with truth.
3 people like this.
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About 20 years ago, a teacher in Orlando wrote a letter to her rep or senator about how she couldn't teach because she had to stop and do the work of other teachers who were clueless or couldn't comprehend English. She was terminated, humiliated, and it was plastered all over the news.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
PostAway 6/23/2020 9:41:51 PM (No. 454674)
It is time for the parents who send their children to this school to stand up for freedom of speech and Mrs. Morse-Cunningham. They need to protect their children from a bleak future in a ghastly country. As if the trillions white taxpayers have paid in welfare, Medicaid, school meals, additional police protection, bussing, quotas and affirmative action for the black community doesn’t cover reparations for slaves they never owned. We’re the slaves today and our reticence and timidity in the face of injustices is a weakness that invites hostility towards us. My question, cried in the wilderness for decades is: where are white men? I’ve always suspected that mentally and socially castrating our men through the Marxist version of equal rights was a way to cow them into obedience as their community and birthright are destroyed.
8 people like this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
alaskaal 6/23/2020 11:17:20 PM (No. 454752)
Outcast for speaking the truth. When bad people hate you it is not necessarily a bad thing, uncomfortable to be sure, but being right has its comfort too.
3 people like this.
Reply 42 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 6/24/2020 1:00:07 AM (No. 454812)
And those privileged just protested, broke into stores, and walked out with the sneakers and beats plus more. No harm done and no arrest. Only in liberal NYC. Mommy and Daddy, if around, should be proud,
1 person likes this.
Reply 43 - Posted by:
Trigger2 6/24/2020 3:33:32 AM (No. 454847)
If she loses her job, I hope she gets a good lawyer and files a lawsuit for violating her lst Amd rights and it pays off in the millions.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 6/24/2020 1:26:30 PM (No. 455462)
"White" and "Privilege" are racist dog whistles used by the Terrorist Thug Movement to rally their looters and arsonists.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/24/2020 11:12:00 PM (No. 456045)
I think George Orwell saidit:
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
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Awesome. Plus, she flushed out the Marxist racists, as she never once mentioned race. white people, however, are forbidden from broaching Uncomfortable Truths that never enter our forbidden national conversation on race, let alone those that form the bedrock of The Community.