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Justin Miret probably wont be getting any more legal advice from Wikipedia (via Facebook)

PORT ST. LUCIE Realtor Justin Miret, 22, picked the wrong stop sign to run Friday night in what developed into an odd and expensive ordeal.

Miret was pulled over for the moving violation by a St. Lucie County patrolman, whichfor most peoplewould just be a spot of bad luck resulting in nothing more serious than a small fine and possibly a brief court appearance.

The ante on this particular incident was upped considerably as the officer made the discovery that Mirets drivers license was suspended and he didnt have insurance.

Were one tempted to give Miret the benefit of the doubt and assume that hed merely been uncharacteristically forgetful about these little administrative matters, his response to the officer would likely be cause to think again.

Thats the last time I listen to Wikipedia about driving, Miret asserted boldly. It said I would just get a ticket.

You cant believe everything you read online (St. Lucie County Jail photo)

He followed this up with some screaming, then balled his fists to try to intimidate the patrolman, a foolproof strategy if ever there was one.

Somehow, this tactic didnt work, and Miret found himself arrested and loaded into the back of the officers police cruiser. While there, he continued to grouse about the quality of Wikipedias legal advice and attempted to slough off blame onto the popular website.

His almost palpable discontent with Wikipedia notwithstanding, Miret made no waves during his trip to the St. Lucie County Jail. His vehicle was towed and he was charged with misdemeanors, with an arraignment scheduled for April 11th. Presently, he is free on a bond of $1,125.

This isnt the only driving mishap Miret has suffered in recent memory. On his Facebook page in September, he posted, Someone just rear ended me getting off 95 on Gatlin. Everyone is okay but just so annoying. Dont freaking text and drive!

A fair point. Also: Dont freaking drive without a license or insurance.

Still, Miretposted the following quote to Facebook in October: They say we learn from our mistakes. Thats why Im deliberately making as many as possible. Soon Ill be a genius.

Lets hope so.

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Author and activist Tim Wise explained March 17 how the poor are blamed for their poverty through the myth that they havent worked hard enough to gain success, despite blatant inequalities in society.

In his talk at City College, Wise critiqued the cultural belief that there is a correlation between hard work and success. He called meritocracy a myth, imposed upon the public to disguise the mechanisms of inequality intrinsic in society.

This concept of meritocracy, it doesnt just hurt people of color, Wise said. Its a dagger pointed at every single one of us.

Wise emphasized that without intervention, people will defer to the default myth about inequality they witness and blame the poor for their poverty, rather than cultivate authentic justice.

To be an educator, you need to be a revolutionary now, Wise said. We have an education system that produces inequality because we have an economic system thats predicated and rooted in inequality. Woodrow Wilson said we need one group to prepare themselves for the receipt of a liberal education, and one group, much larger by necessity, to forego the privilege of a liberal education and to prepare themselves for the performance of certain difficult, manual tasks.

Wise argued that unless white people recognize that a section of society is deliberately drained of opportunity and culturally excluded from the education system, they wont address the same causes at the root of their own depreciating quality of life.

Quoting activist James Baldwin, Wise argued those who write their own history to favor themselves become incapable of learning from it. Wise said that even on a personal level, people cannot be released from their history if they deny how it still affects them. Wise explained socio-economic and political problems, like an injury that requires surgery, for which politicians like Trump promise to treat with pain-killers.

You know what one of the most highly correlated factors with Trump supporters was? The percentage of people in that community who are addicted to opiates, Wise said. When a politician comes along and says, I can take away your pain, that person is a walking, talking, breathing, human version of an opiate.

Thats what were seeing today, Wise said. Were seeing white folks that are in real trouble, but theyre misdiagnosing their pain, or letting it be misdiagnosed, and maintaining faith in a system that wasnt set up for most of them either.

Wise has written a new book titled Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America. Wise signed copies of his book after his speech, and then led a workshop for faculty and staff, who consulted him on ways to assist disproportionately impacted students.

Teach with an eye toward what the least powerful people need, and everyone will benefit, Wise said.

Wise claimed, for example, that positive feedback by the teacher is statistically much more vital for black students than white students because of the comparative deficit in encouragement black students receive from society. Wise said strategies like increasing positive feedback are ideal. Such strategies dont force teachers to teach differently to disproportionately impacted students, but incorporate changes that, at worst, wouldnt be as beneficial to white students as their under-privileged peers.

That is students of color, that is former foster youth, particularly African American and Latino students, said Mark Dennis, professional development coordinator for the Office of Student Equity, whose office invited the author through a state grant to address the achievement gap between specific populations of students and the rest of the student body. Those are the students that are having the hardest time achieving here.

Dennis said he hoped the talk catalyzes an ongoing effort to develop allies and make the City College curriculum more responsive to the diversity of cultures that make up the student body.

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Its a personal act, one that everyone should do, anti-racist essayist and educator Tim Wise instructed.

Take a critical autobiographical account of your life, trace it back as far as you can. Think about how you ended up where you are now, and benefited from things you didnt earn because of your whiteness, gender, class, sexual identity or sheer luck.

I think the first order of business is to get clearer on our own stories. The myth of rugged individualism is not a national problem, its an individual problem, Wise responded to a question about how to combat racial inequality on an individual level.

We still do buy into this notion of individual merit as to Why Im here, and youre not.

Wise addressed a crowd Thursday evening in Ivy Tech Community Colleges Shreve Hall as part of the schools diversity speaker series. Wise has authored seven books, including his recent Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America.

He discussed the concepts of race, privilege, inequality and activism in the aftermath of Donald Trumps rise to the presidency, a time in American history Wise called both dangerous in regard to race and full of potential.

How did America get here, and how do we respond? We have to really interrogate the very premises of this movement, he said, referring to Trumps Make America Great Again campaign slogan.

White people are trapped in a history they do not understand, because they dont grasp the context of exclusion and privilege. Until white people understand the predicate, understand the history that whites have mis-remembered, we are all doomed to stay trapped in inequality, Wise said, sharing quotes by writer James Baldwin and anti-apartheid activist Randall Robinson to illustrate his point.

Wise told the audience a story about driving his daughters to their dance class in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Their car was stopped at a red light in a public housing neighborhood. His youngest daughter asked why black people lived in this neighborhood.

Before he could answer, his eldest daughter responded, Redlining. Yes, but not entirely, Wise told his daughters.

Banks that practiced redlining of neighborhoods based on race or ethnicity starved those neighborhoods of capital, often leaving such areas underdeveloped or left to decay. In the 1930s, public housing was intended for working-class white families. But other government financial programs afforded to whites helped subsidize white flight from urban public housing into the suburbs.

Of course he knew how to respond to his daughters question about race in the projects. But what about the families and teachers who dont?

People will go to default thinking: to the American myth of rugged individualism, the belief that you start with nothing and wherever you end up is up to you and your hard work. And to the default assumption that there must be something wrong with others.

Wise asked the audience to consider the history between police officers and black people. It dates back to white men being hired to enforce slave codes, and to enforcing Jim Crow-era segregation. It is punctuated by violence during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

And it is documented today in the war on drugs: Studies show whites participate in drug activity at the same, or at a greater, rate than blacks. But black people are four times more likely to be imprisoned on drug charges than whites, he said.

If you dont know that history, youll come back with some All lives matter nonsense, Wise said, speaking about his two white daughters again. He doesnt need anyone to tell him the lives of his children matter.

The difference is, every cop in America, teacher, boss, banker giving out loans, knows that their lives matter. You dont have to specify that which is ignored. America has a history of saying all but not meaning it, Wise said of inequality and injustice.

The election of President Trump should not be shocking. Wise said Trump followed a 400-year-old playbook of Rich white men telling white folks, who are definitely not rich, all their problems are those folks right over there, black and brown folks.

Elite whites have appealed to the whiteness of the poor to divide and conquer, even when inequality works against the best interests of the working class.

White Americans have had the luxury to believe in the myth of rugged individualism and have faith in horizontal mobility. Black and brown folks are now being scapegoated for the pain, self-doubt and shame of struggling white people, Wise said.

If we ignore this, the problems that millions of white folks are facing wont get solved, he said. They wont get solved for anyone.

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A Donald Trump supporter holding a poster of Pepe the Frog, a symbol of the alt-right movement, at a campaign event in Bedford, N.H., Sept. 29, 2016. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

(JTA) What does the alt-right movement have in common with millennial slang words such as smackdown, slay and man bun?

Turns out they are all among the more than300 words or terms added to Dictionary.com.

The online dictionary, which announced the additions on Thursday, defines alt-right as a political movement originating on social media and online forums, composed of a segment of conservatives who support extreme right-wing ideologies, including white nationalism and anti-Semitism (often used attributively).

It lists the word as having been coined in 2010 by Richard Spencer, a prominent white nationalist, and as being a shortened version of the words alternative and right.

Spencer, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, has used a Nazi term Lgenpresse, or lying press to describe the mainstream media, and suggested that the media have been critical of Trump in order to protect Jewish interests.

Other politics-related words and phrases added to Dictionary.com include Black Lives Matter, an activist movement protesting violence and racism against African-Americans; burkini, the full-coverage Islamic bathing suit that was at the center of a controversial ban in France, and clicktivism, the use of social media to express support for various causes.

Dictionary.com isnt the only word reference tool that lists alt-right.The phrase was on the Oxford Dictionarys shortlist for top words in 2016, although ultimately post-truth was declared the international word of the year.

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