Thousands of high school students across the country raised their collective voices against the election of Donald Trump by staging a walkout on Monday. From Washington to Arizona, Maryland and more, students expressed unity in opposition to Trump’s divisive campaign rhetoric. That, as President Obama said during a White House press conference Monday that the president-elect must do his part to bring the country together.
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Portland, Oregon
More high school students arriving at walkout demonstration #PortlandProtest #pioneersquare pic.twitter.com/0jGGVSMsPN
— Lance Bangs (@lancebangs) November 14, 2016
Silver Spring, Maryland
Video: High school students walk-out and peacefully march through Silver Spring Md in protest of president-elect @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/5QbJwzwhDl
— Megan Cloherty (@ClohertyWTOP) November 14, 2016
Berkeley, California
Cal students have joined the Berkeley High anti-Trump walkout; they are sitting down in protest at base of Campanile. pic.twitter.com/6uGblrMmsS
— Berkeleyside (@berkeleyside) November 9, 2016
Omaha, Nebraska
Happening now: students at Central High School have staged a walk out protest against President Elect Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/CH1IAp8NAz
— Jenna Jaynes (@Jenna__Jaynes) November 11, 2016
Meantime, Donald Trump has responded to reports of increased hate incidents against Blacks, Muslims, women and gays. During his first televised interview since being elected. The president-elect told CBS’s ’60 Minutes’ that his was “sorry” to hear about the incidents and had a pointed message to his supporters to “Stop it.”
The list of hate crimes and other racist, xenophobic incidents around D.C. is growing. https://t.co/IGEoz0VZfB pic.twitter.com/dIIYrYjRhg
— DCist (@DCist) November 14, 2016
On the flip side, the online news site, Lehigh Valley Live talked with two pro -Trump supporters during counter demonstrations held Saturday, November 12th in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. The publication asked four individuals–two pro-Trump & two anti-Trump:
“Why are people afraid of a Trump presidency?”
- Michael Buskirk, 57, of Easton: Because the free ride is going to be over. People are going to have to get jobs, the people that abuse the government, collecting when they shouldn’t be collecting. You got two legs and two arms, you should be working.
- Antich: A lot of it is conditioning, and a lot of it quite frankly is the media … taking his message and not necessarily putting it in context. … I think the media really has done a lot to gin up the fear in the country. Read more here.
Source: AURN
