A Michigan school district is promoting a “21 Day Equity Challenge” that includes encouraging adults to join Black Lives Matter and donate money to bail out “people arrested for protesting against injustice.”
The Farmington school district in the Detroit area put out the challenge because “21 days is the amount of time needed to create a habit” and the tools provided by the district’s challenge would build an “equity habit.”
Each of the 21 days has a different theme centering on a certain aspect of racial and social justice, including days focused on each minority race in America, a day on identity and intersectionality, and a day on gender and sexuality all culminating in the final “time for some action” day.
One day’s activities include a “race and privilege” checklist, which asks those taking it about different social and economic advantages or disadvantages they had growing up.
The materials for the last day include a checklist for a “personal action plan” for equity, split into “personal actions,” “political actions,” and “professional actions.”
Actions on the list range from reading “at least one article each week to educate yourself on racial injustice” to joining a Black Lives Matter protest, donating to bail funds for arrested protesters, running for public office, confronting microaggressions in the workplace, and “start a structured conversation about race in your workplace.”
Farmington public schools did not respond to a request for comment.
