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Rocknrule

(5,697 posts)
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 01:03 PM Sep 2016

Report: Children of color ‘terrified’ of Trump presidency

Source: MSNBC

Two-thirds of educators teaching grades K-12 reported that school children, mostly of color, are scared and stressed about their future if Donald Trump becomes president, according to a recent Southern Poverty Law Center survey released Wednesday.

A common finding, SPLC reports, is that students of color worry about being deported if Trump wins the election. This anxiety resides particularly with Latino, Muslim and African-American students, even if they are legal U.S. citizens, the report cites. The worries relate to the Republican front-runner’s proposed anti-immigrant policies — such as building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and banning the entrance of all Muslims into the country. Trump has also called Mexicans “rapists” and did not immediately disavow the support of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and other white supremacists in a February interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper.

“My students are terrified of Donald Trump,” said one teacher from a middle school with a large population of African-American Muslims. “They think that if he’s elected, all black people will get sent back to Africa.”

The survey, the non-profit social justice oriented organization admits, is not a scientific, random sampled poll. The open online survey conducted between March 23 to April 2 was sent to teachers that subscribed to SPLC’s Teaching Tolerance newsletter. SPLC also said the teachers who chose to respond to the survey are likely to be those who are most concerned about the effects of the election in their schools. Two thousand K-12 educators responded, generating more than 5,000 comments. About one-fifth of the comments mentioned Donald Trump, meanwhile less than 200 comments mentioned the names of the other presidential candidates.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/report-children-color-terrified-about-trump-presidency

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Report: Children of color ‘terrified’ of Trump presidency (Original Post) Rocknrule Sep 2016 OP
This report is from April 14. Eugene Sep 2016 #1
They got it right. lark Sep 2016 #2
Yup Bradical79 Sep 2016 #3
Exactly my experience with my elementary school students. They are stressed and scared. masmdu Sep 2016 #4
Me too! jcgoldie Sep 2016 #5
I substitute and the kids are scared of cheeto kimbutgar Sep 2016 #6
I hope their parents vote SansACause Sep 2016 #7
Children of color? I'm an old white guy and I'm terrified too! bigworld Sep 2016 #8
I'm an old white woman and I am terrified. He will wreck all but the richest demigoddess Sep 2016 #9
I have been posting this story, murielm99 Sep 2016 #10
My husband saw a little boy in a park, chasing smaller children and screaming, pnwmom Sep 2016 #11

lark

(23,003 posts)
2. They got it right.
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 01:12 PM
Sep 2016

He is totally scary and who knows WTF awful things he could do - firing Curiel and RBG starting a constitutional crisis, ending the min. wage and all child labor laws, refusing to back NATO nations when Russia attacks them, ordering a nuclear attack on Germany because Merkel says bad things about him not honoring America's treaties, and yes, deporting the Mexicans ajnd Muslims and bankrupting our country and letting cops kill anyone anytime with no consequences. Yep, he's scarier than any past presidential candidate of a major party, worst by far.

masmdu

(2,535 posts)
4. Exactly my experience with my elementary school students. They are stressed and scared.
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 01:26 PM
Sep 2016

They keep asking me if Trump wins will they be forced to go back to Africa?

kimbutgar

(20,882 posts)
6. I substitute and the kids are scared of cheeto
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 02:02 PM
Sep 2016

Especially the Asian, Black and Hispanic kids. I don't bring it up. They bring it up and I try to be non committal just tell them to remind their family and other relatives to get registered to vote and vote.

SansACause

(520 posts)
7. I hope their parents vote
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 02:31 PM
Sep 2016

No one should be apathetic about this November's election. Your children are at stake.

demigoddess

(6,640 posts)
9. I'm an old white woman and I am terrified. He will wreck all but the richest
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 03:18 PM
Sep 2016

in this country, and even his friends. All of us are in the cross hairs of a tyrant.

murielm99

(30,657 posts)
10. I have been posting this story,
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 05:05 PM
Sep 2016

directly from the SPLC, for months. I received my Teaching Tolerance publication last week. But it has been discussed here for several months.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
11. My husband saw a little boy in a park, chasing smaller children and screaming,
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 05:49 PM
Sep 2016

"I'm DONALD TRUMP!"

He's the new boogey-man.

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