School bullies have adopted a new tactic: using President Donald Trump’s words to taunt classmates. And it’s happening nationwide, according to a news site's survey.
BuzzFeed News reviewed more than 50 reports of school bullying and claims since the election that white students have been quoting Trump to harass Middle Eastern, Latino, black, Asian, and Jewish students.
The incidents have been confirmed across 26 states in kindergarten through high school, said the website.
However, many examples of cases indicate the students are using slogans rather than Trump’s words.
In Shakopee, Minnesota, boys in Trump shirts surrounded a black teenage girl to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” and replaced the closing with “and the home of slaves.”
A white student in San Mateo County, California told two biracial girls to “go back home to whatever country you’re from.” Following a high school football game in Jacksonville, Florida, white students chanted “Donald Trump! Donald Trump! Donald Trump!” at black students from the opposing school.
BuzzFeed reported on a third-grade boy in Louisville, Kentucky, who chased a Latina girl around the classroom, yelling, “Build the wall!”
“It’s unacceptable and it reflects a wider climate of hate that we’re seeing,” Antonio Lopez, assistant superintendent in Portland, Oregon, told BuzzFeed.
Brent Emmons, principal at Hood River Middle School in Oregon, said he has been in education for 21 years “and I’ve never seen a situation like this before.”
BuzzFeed said it conducted its reviews from October 2015 to late May 2017 on 149 schools, following up on 54 incidents based on interviews, news reports, and statements from school officials.
Trump has been accused of hateful remarks about Mexicans, Muslims, and immigrants since the 2016 presidential campaign.
In a 2016 Washington Post interview, Trump said, “I am not a racist, in fact, I am the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered.”
He said he was not concerned with the allegations “because I don’t think people believe it.”
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