That sick incredulous grief, the abrupt sense of the future violently and totally altered, is the only thing I’ve ever experienced that prepared me for the feeling of Trump winning the election. Instead of having a baby, I learned I’d need an operation to remove something dead inside me. ( Update, 5:05 p.m.: The Acadiana Advocate is reporting that the University of Louisiana student has admitted that she fabricated the attack.) There are reports of anti-immigrant bullying in schools all around the country a Mexican American student in Salt Lake City reported hearing, “Hey man, you get a free trip back to Mexico, you should be happy.” In Durham, North Carolina, someone defaced two walls with the words, “Black lives don’t matter and neither does your vote.” Social media was awash with photographs of hateful graffiti and anecdotes about shocking encounters with racist strangers.įive years ago, I went in for a routine ultrasound when I was 12 weeks pregnant and found out there was no heartbeat. At the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, a Muslim student was beaten and robbed and had her hijab torn off by two men, one in a white Make America Great Again hat. At San Diego State University, two men ranting about Trump and Muslims robbed a student wearing hijab. The Washington Post reports that there have already been two attacks on Muslim women on college campuses. We need a symbol like that in the United States now.
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