Racist Trump-Inspired Campaign Flyers Viciously Target Indian-Amer & Chinese-Amer NJ Candididates

Racist Trump-Inspired Campaign Flyers Viciously Target Indian-American and Chinese-American Candidates in NJ

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After Trump, will every election season be a hate season?
By Emily C. Bell / AlterNet
November 2, 2017, 10:09 AM GMT





As the first elections post-Trump approach next week, his campaign slogans—and hatred—are seeping into election materials in Edison, New Jersey. Campaign flyers, received on Wednesday and sent out by an unknown group, target two school board candidates using racist and anti-immigrant language.

The flyers center the slogan “Make Edison Great Again,” a variation of Donald Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again.” It also stamps the word "deport" underneath the photos of the candidates and reads, “Stop Jerry Shi & Falguni Patel From taking over our School Board.”


Photo Credit: Submitted photo/ NJ 101.5

Falguni Patel is a Democratic committeewoman and an immigration lawyer. NJ 101.5 reported that Patel said she “was born and raised in New Jersey. To see the word ‘deport’ on my picture—where are you going to deport me to? Really, it’s just outrageous.”

The other side of the flyers feature a large stop sign with six statements including “Stop the overcrowding!” and “Stop the outsiders!” above the larger-print statement “Let’s take back our Edison & our Schools.”


Photo credit: NJ 101.5

This wording also mirrors that of Trump’s campaign, when he also used the phrase “Time to take back our country.”...........................................................................



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