Boo Hoo: Report Says Children of Color Are Traumatized By 2016 Campaign – ‘The Trump Effect’

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The anti-immigrant and “juvenile” rhetoric of the 2016 presidential campaign is driving an increase in bullying and fear among students in the nation’s schools, according to a new report by Teaching Tolerance, a project of the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center.

“Children of color, in particular, are being deeply traumatized. Many fear that they or their parents will be deported — or worse — after the election,” says the report, released Wednesday. “Other students have been emboldened by the divisive, often juvenile rhetoric in the campaign. Teachers have noted an increase in bullying, harassment and intimidation of students whose races, religions or nationalities have been the verbal targets of candidates on the campaign trail.”

The report is based on a survey of 2,000 teachers that, the authors acknowledge, is neither scientific nor representative of teachers as a whole: “Our email subscribers and those who visit our website are not a random sample of teachers nationally, and those who chose to respond to our survey are likely to be those who are the most concerned about the impact of the presidential campaign on their students and schools.”

Titled “The Trump Effect,” the report singles out businessman and leading GOP candidate Donald Trump for his statements about deporting Latino immigrants, building a wall on the nation’s southern border, and banning all Muslim immigrants. Of the 4,000 comments teachers wrote in response to the survey, more than 1,000 mentioned Trump, while fewer than 200 mentioned Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton, according to the report.

One teacher quoted in the report wrote that a fifth-grade student told a Muslim classmate “that he was supporting Donald Trump because he was going to kill all of the Muslims if he became president!”

A teacher of kindergartners through third-graders in Oregon said that black students are “concerned for their safety because of what they see on TV at Trump rallies,” while a high school teacher in North Carolina wrote that Latino students are carrying birth certificates and Social Security cards to school out of fear they will be deported.

Trump’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

(c) 2016, The Washington Post · Emma Brown 

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3 COMMENTS

  1. I understand the feeling. I live in a European country which formally has the requirement of ID carrying at all times, and which is flooded with illegals (to put it kindly…. most of them are criminals, and a significant part are terrorists). My children know not to set foot outside without their ID. Coloured children in the USA feel the same anxiety? I am very sorry, and I do hope they, and my children, will be awarded damages, in fact, if you Afro-American and/or Muslim minorities have a good lawyer, I’ll join your class action with delight.

    P.S. May I remark my grandparents had a trouble or two with the country they were supposedly “citizens” of.

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