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pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 02:17 PM Mar 2016

A young black woman's moving account of protesting at a Trump rally

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/03/18/i-yelled-black-lives-matter-at-a-trump-rally-this-is-what-happened-next/?tid=sm_tw

As I sat in the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville, N.C., earlier this month, waiting for Donald Trump’s rally to start, my adrenaline began to rush. I knew I could be hurt for what I was about to do.

I’d driven three hours by myself that morning from college in southern Virginia to protest his campaign. For months, I’d been reading and watching coverage of Trump’s rise. His rallies had become spaces where people felt comfortable being openly racist and hateful, because he allowed them to. And with his ugly rhetoric about Muslims, Mexicans and “the old days” before political correctness, he has encouraged it.

Not long before the Fayetteville event, a group of black students from Valdosta State University in Georgia had been kicked out of a Trump rally at their school before they had even begun to protest. Later that week, I saw a video from another one of his rallies, in Louisville, where Shiya Nwanguma, an African American woman, was pushed around by a crowd of white men. Trump waxed nostalgic, telling the audience: “You know, in the old days — which isn’t so long ago — when we were less politically correct, that kind of stuff wouldn’t have happened. Today we have to be so nice, so nice, we always have to be so nice.”

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A young black woman's moving account of protesting at a Trump rally (Original Post) pnwmom Mar 2016 OP
Her video account is beautiful. lovemydog Mar 2016 #1

lovemydog

(11,833 posts)
1. Her video account is beautiful.
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 03:20 PM
Mar 2016

Sierra K. Thomas has so much love & wisdom.

It's well worth watching her video interview.

'I have love for all people.'

'Out of that will come something so much bigger.'

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