Ten Days After: Harassment and Intimidation in the Aftermath of the Election (SPLC)
November 29, 2016
Just a week before the November 8th election, attackers set a church in Greenville, Mississippi, on fire. The historically black church was targeted in what authorities believe was an act of voter intimidation, its walls spray-painted with the phrase Vote Trump.
This kind of attack happened in the 1950s and 1960s, Greenvilles mayor said, but it shouldnt happen in 2016.
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Of course, hate crimes and lower-level incidents of racial or ethnically charged harassment have long been common in the United States. But the targets of post-election hate incidents report that they are experiencing something quite new.
I have experienced discrimination in my life, but never in such a public and unashamed manner, an Asian-American woman reported after a man told her to go home as she left an Oakland train station. Likewise, a black resident whose apartment was vandalized with the phrase 911 nigger reported that he had never witnessed anything like this. A Los Angeles woman, who encountered a man who told her he was Gonna beat [her] pussy, stated that she was in this neighborhood all the time and never experienced this type of language before. Not far away in Sunnyvale, California, a transgender person reported being targeted with homophobic slurs at a bar where Ive been a regular customer for 3 years never had any issues.
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https://www.splcenter.org/20161129/ten-days-after-harassment-and-intimidation-aftermath-election