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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAt Iowa High School, Election Results Kindle Tensions and Protests
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/us/at-iowa-high-school-election-results-kindle-tensions-and-protests.htmlIOWA CITY The air felt leaden in the hallways at West High School on the morning after Election Day. The usual clatter from the buildings 2,000 students was muffled. At lunchtime, Lujayn Hamad was in the cafeteria when she said a boy she barely knew roughly bumped into her and swore at her.
Go back home, he told Ms. Hamad, who is 15, and an American citizen, and wears a hijab.
The comment, overheard by a friend at Ms. Hamads side though denied by the male student set off a turbulent week of tears, fury and demonstrations at West High, a large public school in this university town, which prides itself on its openness and progressivism. Minorities make up nearly 40 percent of the student body at West High, a far more diverse mix than the typical Iowan school.
In the hours and days after Ms. Hamads encounter in the cafeteria, similar incidents followed, students said. One girl said she was surrounded by heckling students and called a terrorist. Another said she saw people chanting Trump in the hallways when they passed black students. In one classroom, a student noted the absence of a Latino classmate and announced to the others, I wonder if she got deported.
Go back home, he told Ms. Hamad, who is 15, and an American citizen, and wears a hijab.
The comment, overheard by a friend at Ms. Hamads side though denied by the male student set off a turbulent week of tears, fury and demonstrations at West High, a large public school in this university town, which prides itself on its openness and progressivism. Minorities make up nearly 40 percent of the student body at West High, a far more diverse mix than the typical Iowan school.
In the hours and days after Ms. Hamads encounter in the cafeteria, similar incidents followed, students said. One girl said she was surrounded by heckling students and called a terrorist. Another said she saw people chanting Trump in the hallways when they passed black students. In one classroom, a student noted the absence of a Latino classmate and announced to the others, I wonder if she got deported.
The conservatives in the school have it the worse, they're complaining to the principal about being starred at and not feeling equal.
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At Iowa High School, Election Results Kindle Tensions and Protests (Original Post)
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Nov 2016
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. Conservatives always have a problem with everything in life. 99% of the time if one
hears whining and screaming, it's an imploding hot head conservative. As a manager, I really disliked them in my group. They had an issue with everything and often were stupid block heads.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)2. That is so sad and they are American so they aren't going anywhere else. Wonder what
the lasting effect will be from the hate they are getting from trump voters in their childhood