The incidents are starting to pile up: From chants by white students of “Build that Wall,” at a high school volleyball tournament in Snyder, Tex., where Archer City High was facing off with Fort Hancock, to middle school students in Michigan chanting “build the wall” during lunch the day after the election; from women wearing head-scarfs getting harassed, to young Muslim men yelled at menacingly from passing cars; from a Latina women told to “go back to where you came from” to gay men harassed on the streets of Raleigh, North Carolina, the election of Donald Trump has ushered in a harvest of hate.
In this post-election period where white supremacists, white nationalists, Islamophobes, and anti-Semites seem to feel empowered to do and say just about anything, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is reporting that more than 700 incidents of “hateful intimidation and harassment” have already occurred.
Let’s set the stage: Trump is planning to nominate Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions…
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