Matthew Stafford has made a lot of money in the NFL. However, he also comes from a lot of money. A fact which has led the Lions signal-caller to label himself a person of “privilege,” who now wants to get out of his “bubble.”
A graduate student at the University of Wisconsin recently announced that she has lied about her race. Graduate student CV Vitolo-Haddad, who is actually Sicilian, wrote in a blog post this week that she has pretended to be black for some time. At one point, Vitolo-Haddad also told her peers that she identified as Latino. She has resigned from her position as a teaching assistant
Members of a national network of black leaders applauded President Donald Trump’s executive order to defund “critical race theory” training at the federal level.
Professor Khyati Joshi addressed students and faculty of Rutgers University on the topic of “White Christian Privilege” Wednesday, tying Christianity and whiteness to a series of historical evils.
A Jesuit-led Roman Catholic parish asks parishioners to recite a “pledge” during Mass that affirms “the culture of white supremacy must be dismantled.”
Birmingham Council is set to create a fast track recruitment programme for ethnic minorities, force staff to undertake “equalities training” and launch a new “race equality” curriculum in schools.
ESPN sports commentator Stephen A. Smith blasted the Brooklyn Nets hiring of Steve Nash as their head coach, calling the move a sign of “white privilege.”
Pop star Demi Lovato says she’s ashamed that she’s benefited from “privilege” while working in the entertainment industry, writing in an open letter that she hated sharing “the same skin color as the people accused of committing heinous crimes” against black people in recent months.
Compulsory “unconscious bias” training for MPs. Could there possibly be a more pointless, frivolous, or insulting way of making Britain’s politicians even more useless or bigger a waste of money than they are already?
Senior staff at the British Parliament have confessed their white privilege and pledged to be “allies” to minorities as the legislature pilots “unconscious bias training” for elected MPs.
The taxpayer-funded British Library has been urging which staff to support the Black Lives Matter movement and back petition pushed by Labour’s Diane Abbott.
White men working at nuclear lab had to join a training course titled “White Men’s Caucus on Eliminating Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia.”
BBC Bitesize, which provides lessons for British schools, has published a video by former National Basketball Association (NBA) player John Amaechi pushing the concept of “white privilege”.
Arizona State University published a “Black Male Privilege Checklist” that details the ways in which black men hold “privilege” over black women in American society. The list includes a variety of claims ranging from gender-based hairstyle challenges to the “gender pay gap” for professional athletes.
The New York Times is releasing a new podcast series about how white parents are preventing minority children from succeeding in schools.
Actor Matt Damon has reportedly closed off an entire block in Brooklyn Heights to move into a luxury New York City penthouse.
A British educator has warned that the introduction of the “woke vision of racism” in schools is not only harmful to pupils but may be in violation of the 1996 Education Act, which mandates that educators maintain political neutrality in the classroom.
White Privilege, thy name is Joe Biden!
The NFL’s Washington Redskins’ reevaluation of its team name is motivated by financial concerns, assessed former NFL wide receiver Dennis McKinnon on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel B. Pollak.
A rugby fan has been banned from his club’s stadium for life for praising a girl who refused to “take the knee” and criticising “Marxist extremism and intimidation”.
An Isle of Man radio host suspended for denying he had “white privilege” had been reinstated after the Free Speech Union went to bat for him.
Lena Dunham has apologized for the white privilege that has enabled her to achieve Hollywood success at a young age, saying that from now on, she promises to “sit down” and “shut up, unless it’s to advocate for change for Black people.” The Girls star also pushed slavery reparations and defunding the police.
Washington Post Global Opinions Editor Karen Attiah wrote Sunday white women “are lucky” that “[we] are not calling for revenge,” making her statement in a subsequently deleted social media post.
A Cambridge University professor has boasted that she was promoted after tweeting “White Lives Don’t Matter” — after a man who flew a banner saying they do matter over a football match in the wake a suspected terrorist attack was fired.
Actress Jenny Slate said she will no longer voice the bi-racial character Missy on Netflix’s animated series “Big Mouth,” saying that as a white woman, she was exercising her “white privilege” and engaging in the “erasure of Black people.”
A black Metropolitan Police Department officer lectured a white Black Lives Matter protester in Washington, DC, on Tuesday evening as she attempted to accuse one of his white colleagues of racism.
Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman writes that she overcame personal doubts about the “Defund the Police” cause — which she supported by signing an open letter demanding that action from local governments — when she acknowledged her “white privilege.”
Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender defended her council’s attempt to disband the Minneapolis police department following the death of George Floyd.
“The media would destroy black America if it would get rid of Donald Trump,” said Joel Pollak to Dennis Prager on Thursday.
Hundreds of “predominantly white” demonstrators took a public oath to speak up against racism at a Black Lives matter demonstration in Bethesda, Maryland, on Tuesday afternoon.
Charamagne tha God told Rush Limbaugh the problem was “white privilege.” Iironically, “white privilege,” as an idea, gives whites more power.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) reacted to news that the Department of Justice (DOJ) was dropping its case against former National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.) on Thursday by calling it an example of “white privilege.”
A major survey of the British television industry has found that, contrary to popular belief among “woke” commentators, gay people and ethnic minorities are massively overrepresented.
The Church of England’s most prominent cleric, Justin Welby, said he is “ashamed of our history” and of his supposed advantages as a straight white male.
Ben Bradley has admonished “woke” commentators who harp on the subject of “white male privilege” by inviting them to speak to white working-class men whose lives have been far from easy.
A professor from the University of Arizona argued last week that the term “white privilege” should be replaced with the term “white immunity.” The term was created to suggest that white Americans are “immune” to poor treatment by society.
Left-wing comedienne Chelsea Handler lambasted white women who support President Donald Trump, accusing the president of inflicting damage on minorities and urging white women to “think about what it’s like to not be them” heading into the new year.
A group of students at Williams College have staged a boycott of the school’s English Department, alleging that the curriculum is “whitewashed” and its scholars “racist.”
A professor at Dartmouth College wants to create a mandatory course on “white privilege” for college students around the country.
Chelsea Handler’s Netflix documentary on white privilege – Hello, Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea – has been panned by critics, who say it amounts to a “misguided reckoning” and note that she is actively “exploiting her wokeness” and “profiting off a film about her white privilege.”
