Trump Calling Our Service Men and Women Cry Babies

Daniel P. Finney

Somehow "crybabies" has become the fashionable term to describe those upset past Donald Trump's ballot to the presidency.

Information technology'due south a juvenile term not befitting of grown-ups, but it might be somewhat accurate.

Some of those most unsettled by President-elect Trump and his surrogates are our children.

What follows is a series of reports filed in Des Moines Public Schools post-obit the Nov. 8 ballot. They were collected past district spokespeople Amanda Lewis and Phil Roeder. The names of the students take been withheld because of educatee privacy laws.

On Wed morning following the ballot, a third-grade girl at a Des Moines elementary schoolhouse collapsed sobbing into the artillery of a advisor.

"My family is going to have to go to Mexico," the girl said.

The child'south parents are not undocumented immigrants. But the girl was afraid because Trump has said so many negative things about immigrants during his entrada.

That aforementioned day, an African-American counselor stood outside Central Campus while students loaded buses. A car full of white men drove past. One man leaned out the window and said, "I'm for Trump. You lot people are done."

A Des Moines elementary school teacher told district officials a pupil hugged her and said she would miss her if the child's family was deported back to Mexico.

This was a common theme. Heart-school staffers reported regular hugs from students. The kids wanted to thank them for everything in case they were deported.

A minority pupil was in course and some other educatee said Mexicans should "pack their bags" and "it's time to ship out," the reports said.

A advisor reported a 15-year-old minority educatee who identifies every bit LGBTQ was harassed, yelled at and threatened by adults.

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Students who staged a walkout in protest of Trump'southward election told their teachers that adults driving past flipped them off.

White students told kinesthesia and staff they were worried almost their classmates and friends who are immigrants and refugees, non knowing what will happen to them.

A teenage mother was told to "join the unemployment line with other baby mamas," the reports said.

Afterward that solar day, a student reportedly yelled "Negros, Negros" at a group of students before running away. He tripped and fell but told school officials an African-American student hit him. Witnesses said that never happened.

Roeder, the school spokesman, received a tweet telling him to stop acting similar a woman and "abound some balls" when he told the news media the district would not finish student protests.

Some called for the expulsion of the students. Others wanted staff fired for allowing information technology.

The students who walked out in the protestation were marked absent — the aforementioned mode they would have if they'd skipped class for whatsoever other reason.

The acrimony flowed both ways.

Some of the students who participated in the walkout reportedly tried to prevent students returning from Central Campus from re-entering their home schools because they believed they were Trump supporters.

A pro-Trump sign was ripped out of a student's hands, one written report said. Some other student told his teachers he was afraid to say he voted for Trump for fearfulness of being labeled a racist.

It'due south all such a shame.

Des Moines schools are the well-nigh diverse in Iowa, with the majority of its more than 30,000 students belonging to a minority ethnic grouping. Des Moines students are a quarter Hispanic, and xix pct African-American. About 8 percent are Asian and nearly 7 percent identify equally multiracial.

English is not the native language for a fifth of Des Moines students. More than 100 nations are represented in the district's schools and as many languages are spoken.

This city'southward schools, more than than any other place in the state, represent the great melting pot of promise that is America. Information technology'southward a place that should be celebrated, not beset past fear and loathing regardless of who occupies high political offices.

I am non saying that everyone who voted for Trump is racist, misogynistic and xenophobic. However, information technology is articulate that people who favor racist, misogynistic and xenophobic rhetoric and behaviors feel emboldened following this ballot.

And, of class, some anti-Trump protesters are taking their rhetoric and deportment too far. Blocking archway to a school is incorrect. Blocking a highway is impaired and dangerous. Both are confronting the law.

This all causes a lot of people peachy pain. Information technology hurts me to witness it. This is not the The states we aspire to be.

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I don't have any comforting words for people who are hurting or afraid because, in truth, none of us knows what is going to happen. And naught incites anxiety like uncertainty.

I try to take comfort in history.

The most hated president in our history during his time must have been Abraham Lincoln. He became president, and Southern states seceded.

Some 620,000 Americans died over iv years in a state of war to put the nation back together once again.

In his time, at least half the state, geographically speaking, would non accept predicted that Lincoln was the person who would preserve the marriage. Now, of class, he is revered as one of the most important figures in our nation's history.

I am not implying that states are on the verge of secession. Nor do I believe Trump is the next Lincoln.

I worry that he lacks even the potential of being a unifying figure. I hope I am incorrect, because as divided and raw every bit our civilisation is today, nosotros really demand him to exist.

Daniel P. Finney ,The Register's Metro Voice columnist, is a Drake University alumnus who grew up in Winterset and east Des Moines. Reach him at 515-284-8144 or dafinney@dmreg.com.  Twitter : @newsmanone.

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