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Thread #160923   Message #3820114
Posted By: Greg F.
12-Nov-16 - 10:24 AM
Thread Name: BS: Our Apology
Subject: RE: BS: Our Apology
Here come the Trumpite cockroaches- and you ain't seen nuthin yet!

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Schools report racist incidents in wake of Trump election

Errin Haines Whack and Jay Reeves, Associated Press
Saturday, November 12, 2016

In the wake of Donald Trump's election, reports of racist incidents are emerging from the nation's schools and universities, including students who chanted "white power" and called black classmates "cotton pickers."

Reporting by The Associated Press and local media outlets has identified more than 20 such encounters beginning on Election Day, many involving people too young to cast a ballot.

On Wednesday, minority students at a high school in Gurnee, Illinois, organized a meeting and protest after a "whites only" message was found scrawled on a bathroom door. The same day in Michigan, students at Royal Oak Middle school were filmed chanting "build a wall" in the cafeteria.

At Trump's alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, black freshmen were added to a group chat in which one post read "daily lynching," and one participant was called a "dumb slave." The Penn president said the chat appeared to be based in Oklahoma and that university police were trying to locate the exact source.

Also in Pennsylvania, two students at the York County School of Technology held a Donald Trump sign in a hallway as someone shouted "white power," an incident captured on video and widely shared on Facebook.

The morning after the election, leaflets from the Ku Klux Klan showed up in a neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama. At Central Texas University in San Marcos, police were investigating who posted fliers Thursday around campus urging the formation of "tar and feather vigilante squads" and threatening to "arrest and torture" campus diversity advocates.

In Durham, North Carolina, two walls were spray-painted with the statement "Black lives don't matter and neither does your vote."