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Speaker 1: The New York City Board of Education has an announcement

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Speaker 1: they are launching an investigation into an assistant principle at

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Speaker 1: New Door High School in Staten Island. Suspect is Deborah

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Speaker 1: Morse Cunningham. Her alleged crime is that she posted an

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Speaker 1: opinion piece on social media. Her post began, what is privilege?

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Speaker 1: Miss Cunningham says she defines privileges wearing a pair of

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Speaker 1: two hundred dollar sneakers when you've never had a job,

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Speaker 1: or wearing a pair of three hundred dollar headphones while

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Speaker 1: you live on public assistance. She also classified privileges living

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Speaker 1: in publicly subsidized housing where there are no utility bills

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Speaker 1: or property taxes to worry about. Well, the so called

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Speaker 1: concerned parents saw the post and was triggered, she reported

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Speaker 1: the Board of Education, claiming the post was racist, even

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Speaker 1: though not one word in it mentioned race. A spokeswoman

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Speaker 1: for the New York City Department of Education defended the

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Speaker 1: investigation of the post. She said the d o E

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Speaker 1: stands against racism and schools must be safe and inclusive

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Speaker 1: learning environments. Maybe one day New York's Education Department will

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Speaker 1: investigate the constitution, specifically the portion concerning free speech, which

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Speaker 1: happens to be the first amendment to Bill of Rights,

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Speaker 1: and they might one day investigate why so many children

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Speaker 1: who attend their public schools come out completely uneducated. It

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Speaker 1: was actually a brilliant, brilliant post, folks,