“I’m just casually walking to school,” she recalls. “And you just see ‘Go Trump’ all over the motherf*cking floor on your way to class. You see ‘Build a Wall’ on the rocks and the monuments at the school. You see shit like ‘F*ck Bernie,’ shit like that.”
But Bartlett says that it was the students having an “open Trump forum” at her dorm that were the most upsetting.
“I’m all about having your own political views,” she explains. “But it’s the point where it gets disrespectful. Me and my friends are the minority in this residence hall. Meaning, it’s a handful of us and the rest are predominately white.”
“You’re openly discussing racism and being racist,” Bartlett continues. “They said the Black Lives Matter movement was retarded, they told us to go back to Africa, they saying the N word, calling us n*ggers, all types of stuff.”
“Go back to Africa?" Sure, right after you punks and Trump go Back to Nazi Germany where you came from.
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“You’re not going to make me feel uncomfortable at a school that I pay $22,000 to attend. I refuse to pay my money to get an education, to set the standard, to set the precedent for my siblings, my sisters and brothers that they can be successful only for you to deny me?” she says. “No, bro. I went down there and I confronted all of them.”
“Y’all want to have an open forum and an open discussion about black people, let me pull up a seat,” Bartlett quips. “Let me hear everything you have to say in my face.”
“Y’all got so much to say about black people,” she remarks. “Black people this, black people that. We [are] the reason and we are to blame for our circumstances and we’ve got to reap the consequences of our circumstances? What about the ones that’s driving to be better? What about the ones that’s trying to be successful? I’m first generational. My parents didn’t go to college and I gotta go through this?”
Bartlett argues that black students like her have the increased burden of worrying about “when I lay my head at night, what are they going to do to me at my dorm. And know that my school’s not going to do ‘nothing about it this is a multitude of incidents. That’s what I gotta worry about today as a black woman in society.”
What Leilani is referring to when she says signs saying “Build the Wall” and “Fuck Bernie" is a strategy by college-age Trump fans called Chalkening.
“If you’re listening right now, you’re one of the lucky ones that survived the Chalkening.”
That’s how the fraternity-culture and southern-college-culture brand Old Row opened its weekly podcast on Wednesday. The line, fit for an apocalypse movie, referred to a campaign by Donald Trump’s young supporters on college campuses. Their weapon of choice in their crusade to push their candidate into the White House? Chalk.
After students protested in March following the appearance of pro-Trump messages written in chalk at Emory University—which students who demonstrated said they saw as part of wider, ongoing racial issues on the school’s Atlanta campus—the national organization Students for Trump instructed its members to carry out more chalkings. The idea apparently came from Dan Scavino, Trump’s social media director, who on April 1 posted on Twitter about what he called “The Chalkening” and tagged Students for Trump. Old Row picked up on the effort, and spread the word to its 381,000 social media followers.
Which, as anyone with a half-brain could have predicted, generated a spate of protests.
One student involved in the protest tells Newsweek that during the rally, a university administration staff member invited protesters inside to meet with university President James Wagner. Shehab was present at the meeting and says it lasted for about an hour and a half. “President Wagner was very receptive. He listened very carefully,” she says.
“The students shared with me their concern that these messages were meant to intimidate rather than merely to advocate for a particular candidate,” Wagner said in a statement released Tuesday. “During our conversation, they voiced their genuine concern and pain in the face of this perceived intimidation.... I cannot dismiss their expression of feelings and concern as motivated only by political preference or over-sensitivity.”
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The draft says that those who wrote the chalk messages “attacked minority and marginalized communities at Emory, creating an environment in which many students no longer feel safe and welcome…. For some students, simply seeing the word ‘Trump’ plastered across campus brings to mind his many offensive quotes and hateful actions.”
“I legitimately feared for my life,” a freshman who identifies as Latino told The Daily Beast. Another student told the publication, “Some of us were expecting shootings. We feared walking alone.”
There’s another word for this, it’s called “Terrorism.”
No, I’m not equating chalk with suicide bombs, I’m calling the deliberate spreading of fear — the deliberate spreading of fear as this student explains.
“We aren’t afraid of chalk,” says a student involved in the protests, who declined to give her name because she said people have been receiving threats. “We’re afraid of people who are willing to put ridiculous messages as an intimidation tactic, as a scare tactic, against students who go to this school. The marks on the campus matter because they’re a symbol of the continued marginalization of students.”
And it’s not just with the chalk, Black and Latino students have walked off the field in the middle of a soccer match when their opponents started using the “Build The Wall” chant to intimidate them.
Some of the players from the Beloit Memorial girls varsity soccer team walked off the field during the game Thursday at Elkhorn Area High School after they were taunted with racial slurs and the pro-Trump chant, reported WISC-TV.
“They came off the field and weren’t able to finish the game because they were too upset and distraught over what happened to them,” said coach Brian Denu. “One of the girls was cradled in the arms of one of our assistant coaches for a good 15 to 20 minutes.”
The Beloit coach, who is white, said he hopes the fans who taunted his players understand the hurt they caused.
“My guess is that they’re good kids that have some really bad ideas in their head,” Denu said. “But those were hurtful — and words that you say can last with people for a very, very, very long time.”
Latino players were taunted by white fans chanting Trump’s name during an Iowa high school basketball game in February.
Trump’s name was also used as a racial epithet during a high school basketball game in Indiana, where students held up large printed photos of the Republican presidential candidate’s face and chanted his name at Latino players on an opposing team.
This is just where it starts with the name calling and the threats. People have already been assaulted, battered and beaten up multiple times by Trumpsters including his own campaign manager. I mean, if Trump makes it to the Presidency when roving bands of White Trump Bros start beating up random blacks, gays, women and latinos — and some of them don’t survive — we can pretty much expect President Trump to pay for their defense, not prosecute them for murder. He’d probably bring them to the White House to shake their hands.
Bet on it.
Because when you listen to these “Trump Bros” try to explain what their doing, it doesn’t really get much better.
Jack Rowe, an 18-year-old high school student from St. Paul, Minnesota, sat in the front row of a Donald Trump rally in Eau Claire, Wisconsin last weekend, sandwiched between two friends.
He had caucused for Trump in Minnesota for the very first time a few weeks earlier. Freckled and grinning, he sported a red "Make America Great Again" hat and a gray Trump t-shirt.
Rowe had some thoughts on Trump's rhetorical treatment of women, which had been dominating the news lately thanks to the Republican front-runner's comments about punishing women who have abortions. Mainly, Rowe said, it's a non-issue.
"Misogyny was an issue about maybe 60, 80 years ago," said Rowe. "That's not an issue today. There are a lot bigger fish to fry...You know, ISIS is chopping off heads. We've got 19 trillion dollars in debt."
Apparently they think that they — the white and affluent — are the "oppressed” ones simply because going around and saying “Nigger” at black people or supporting the idea or re-implementing “Operation:Wetback” just might happen to get some people upset? Gee, Who knew?
"There is a sentiment among frat guys, lacrosse players and middle class affluent white kids that they are kind of getting persecuted lately," Portnoy told CBS News.
"You tell a joke it gets blown out of proportion. You gotta walk on eggshells. There's kind of that feeling, and Trump, he tells a joke and doesn't back down. He says things that would normally been frowned upon. At a school, a kid would get expelled. Not that it's right or wrong, but he's sort of defending a lot of the things they've been attacked for in the last five years or so."
"It's an F-U to society, who is telling us we are a bad guy because we like hooking up with girls on spring break," he added. "And they see Trump sticking up for that."
Yes, he's defending being a A-S-S-H-O-L-E in public. These guys are obviously too young to realize the only guy who gets to do that is Dennis Leary.
Folks, I'd like to sing a song about the American Dream About me, about you, the way our American hearts beat Down in the bottom of our chests, about the special feeling
We get in the cockles of our hearts, maybe below the cockles Maybe in the sub-cockle area, maybe in the liver Maybe in the kidneys, maybe even in the colon, we don't know
I'm just a regular Joe with a regular job I'm your average white suburbanite slob I like football and porno and books about war
I've got an average house with a nice hardwood floor My wife and my job, my kids and my car My feet on my table and a Cuban cigar
But sometimes that just ain't enough To keep a man like me interested (Oh no) No way (Uh-uh)
No, I've gotta go out and have fun At someone else's expense (Oh yeah) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I drive really slow in the ultrafast lane While people behind me are going insane
I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole) I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, such an asshole)
I use public toilets and piss on the seat I walk around in the summertime saying "How about this heat?"
I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole) I'm an asshole (He's the world's biggest asshole)
Sometimes I park in handicapped spaces While handicapped people make handicapped faces
I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole) I'm an asshole (He's a real fucking asshole)
Maybe I shouldn't be singing this song Ranting and raving and carrying on Maybe they're right when they tell me I'm wrong
Nah!
I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole) I'm an asshole (He's the world's biggest asshole)
You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac, El Dorado convertible Hot pink with whaleskin hub caps and all leather cow interior And big brown baby seal eyes for headlights, yeah And I'm gonna drive around in that baby at 115 mph
Getting one mile per gallon, sucking down quarter pounder Cheese burgers from McDonald's in the old fashioned Non-biodegradable Styrofoam containers And when I'm done sucking down those grease ball burgers
I'm gonna wipe my mouth with the American flag And then I'm gonna toss the Styrofoam container right out the side And there ain't a goddamned thing anybody can do about it You know why? Because we got the bombs, that's why
Two words, nuclear fucking weapons, okay? Russia, Germany, Romania They can have all the democracy they want They can have a big democracy cake walk Right through the middle of Tienanmen square
And it won't make a lick of difference Because we've got the bombs, okay? John Wayne's not dead He's frozen and as soon as we find the cure for cancer We're gonna thaw out the duke and he's gonna be pretty pissed off You know why? Have you ever taken a cold shower?
Well multiple that by 15 million times That's how pissed off the Duke's gonna be I'm gonna get the Duke and John Cassavetes
(Hey) And Lee Marvin (Hey) And Sam Peckinpah (Hey) And a case of whiskey and drive down to Texas (Hey, you know you really are an asshole) Why don't you just shut-up and sing the song pal
I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole) I'm an asshole (He's the world's biggest asshole)
A S S H O L E, everybody A S S H O L E
Arf arf arf arf arf arf arf Fung achng tum a fung tum a fling chum Ooh, ooh
I'm an asshole and proud of it
Now, THAT is telling a joke. it also happens to be funny, unlike Donald Trump. [And no, Dennis is not a Trump Fan]
These little shits don't deserve to lick Leary’s boots.