Just hours after President-elect Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential race, students at Maple Grove High School in Maple Grove, Minnesota returned to class to find racist messages scrawled throughout the school. Messages that appear to have been inspired by the GOP candidate.
Of the messages and their impact on some of the students, one father posted on a now deleted Facebook post that his son:
“Does not feel safe at his own school anymore. I am not sure what to tell him!”
According to a report from KSTP TV, a locker door was defaced with racist graffiti that read: “F*ck N****rs” as well as “F*ck all porch monkeys,” “Whites only,” and “White America.”
Connecting the graffiti back to the Trump campaign was not difficult as the words “Trump Train” were also on the door.
In an interesting bit of unintentional irony, a toilet paper dispenser was defaced with the words “Make America Great Again” along with the hashtag phrase, “#Go back to Africa.”
School spokesperson Barb Olson said in a statement:
“Every day in all of our schools, we seek to provide a safe and respectful learning and working environment for every student and employee. Racist messages like the one found today endanger the safety of our students and staff of color, and they create a climate that is not conducive to learning.”
But the students of Maple Grove High School did not take this garbage lying down. They are providing an example of what we all need to do in the face of large portions of America pining for a return to racism and bigotry. They are swamping the hateful messages with messages of love!
Love does indeed trump hate. It has to.
Here is a video of students publicly rallying around each other in stark contrast to the cowardly racist graffiti that was scrawled by cockroaches afraid of the light. Feel hope.
Featured image via KSTP.com
