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The fabric of a community frays under Trump
Boston Globe via MSN ^ | 11/5/2017 | Matt Viser

Posted on 11/05/2017 3:10:07 AM PST by T-Bird45

YORK, Pa.—Are you OK? Where are you?

Barbara Estep kept texting her daughter, Nylaya Way, who was not responding. Donald Trump had stunned the nation by winning the presidency the night before, and now frightening things were happening at Nylaya’s vocational high school, York County School of Technology. Racial tensions had been building in the school’s corridors, cafeteria, and parking lot throughout the historically divisive campaign. Then, hours after Trump claimed victory in the election, they boiled over as a group of white students held aloft Trump campaign signs and chanted in a hallway, “White power!’’

A brief video clip of the incident shot across the social media feeds of York Tech students and their parents.

“I just thought it was going to be this big race riot,” Barbara Estep said. “The country-fed boys, they’re hunters. I’m sorry, that’s what I thought. These city kids, they have guns. I thought it was going to be a big shootout.”

Finally, a text came from Nylaya: I’m OK. Stop worrying.

But even as the threat of violence seemed to ease, Estep decided to keep her daughter out of school the next day. Many other parents made the same call. “When I called the school and I said, ‘I’m not going to send her,’ ” Estep recalls, “the person in the attendance office said, ‘I don’t blame you.’ ”

Trump’s election a year ago profoundly altered the United States in ways that continue to reverberate, but perhaps most visibly and disturbingly in how we talk to one another, especially about the hardest things, like the nation’s racial divide. The volume is up; the edge is sharp. Old grievances feel new, and civility is being sorely tested.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2016swingstates; biracial; blm; boogedyboogedy; careertech; confederateflag; election; obamalegacy; paping; pennsylvania; snowflakes; third100days; yorkpa
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To: jonascord
I'm having trouble trying to fight the urge to see all democrats gassed...

Haha. Yep.

Nice rant.

21 posted on 11/05/2017 4:12:37 AM PST by bagster (It's okay to be white.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Whenever I read the word “community”, I am inclined to stop reading; it’s going to be a load of b.s. from thereafter.


22 posted on 11/05/2017 4:13:18 AM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I’ve made the same statement about cotton picking and agree completely on the asset transfer that’s taken place since the mid-60s. One thing about it is that the money has been well-spent from a Demo point of view because that crew stays bought and returns the goods in the voting booth.


23 posted on 11/05/2017 4:14:31 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: T-Bird45

I’ll bet the Globe had a whole bunch of puff pieces lined up for today on the power of the Antifa resistance. Then the resistance on Nov 4 fizzed out. Now the Globe returns to an earlier vintage whine about how divided the country is; boo hoo.


24 posted on 11/05/2017 4:20:03 AM PST by Flick Lives (The FBI is a taxpayer funded Mafia organization)
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To: T-Bird45

I was working as the Manager of a group of rental houses, when Obama was elected. There were some hard working families and some Section 8 families. One man I remember well was a Sec8 renter and his rent payment out of his pocket was $8.00 a month. His utilities were all paid and he got other forms of support. This man was healthy and able in all ways. After Obama was elected he informed me that he would no longer pay $8.00 a month, he felt that he had paid enough rent and it was now going to be free.
I did explain that he was not going to be allowed to stay if he didn’t pay his rent. After he was $16.00 behind in his rent, I bagan the eviction process. When we got before a Judge, the renter said that “We in charge now. Black folks don’t work for you no more, we are finally free, and you got to accept that.” The Judge didn’t see it that way, and he was evicted. The nonpayment of rent was a breach of the Sec 8 contract. He was not allowed to have another Sec8 contract for two years. The last time I saw him he was screaming at the Judge that Obama was going to have him fired. That didn’t happen.
I put up with this and many like it for five years and then began working in another field. It just kept getting worse through those eight years.


25 posted on 11/05/2017 4:23:39 AM PST by wdnhrse
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To: T-Bird45

Matt Viser your parents must be so disappointed that you’ve reached Boston Globe writer status and still write garbage...but then again that’s why you have reached Boston Globe writer status...


26 posted on 11/05/2017 4:24:39 AM PST by oust the louse (The LEFT has no principles, it only has goals! They are the party of death and taxes.)
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To: jonascord

LOL. Tagline! you funny guy


27 posted on 11/05/2017 4:25:29 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
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To: blueplum

That’s right; after the Bolshevik Revolution of 2008 we were never supposed to see a white Christian guy (Trump professes to be a Christian) in power again - ANYWHERE. Automatic trigger for charges of “racism”, “sexism”, “anti-LGBT”...from the usual suspects.


28 posted on 11/05/2017 4:25:55 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: T-Bird45

The country was already torn apart by the Marxist Muslim pos named 0bama.

5.56mm


29 posted on 11/05/2017 4:28:16 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Mark17
Every word in the story is probably a lie.

Except for the attendance office saying "I don't blame you".

Public school administrators love their brown pets. It's how they know they themselves are goodwhites.

But a time is fast approaching when the pets rise up and want those cushy no-work jobs for themselves. "We can't get fired like this!"..."What do you mean "we", whitey?"

30 posted on 11/05/2017 4:29:15 AM PST by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like)
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To: wdnhrse

WTF is this “work” of which your former renter was speaking? By your post, he hadn’t turned a tap in years yet he was bold enough to use the word “work” in front of the judge when he was being evicted over the matter of $16???


31 posted on 11/05/2017 4:31:41 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Jim Noble
I am reminded of the movie, “Gremlins”.
32 posted on 11/05/2017 4:33:01 AM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: T-Bird45

Oh, the poor oppressed people!

What a bunch of lies. Yeah, I am sure there were a bunch of whites chanting "White Power!"

Maybe they could hang some nooses on their front door, and spray paint some swastikas on their mailbox? I know.....burn a cross on their own front lawn.

I mean, if you are going full racial hoax, you might as well go all in.

33 posted on 11/05/2017 4:35:40 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: T-Bird45

Obama set the stage for this divide by taking sides publicly in racial conflicts. Remember Jeremiah Wright? Obama believed what Wright preached.


34 posted on 11/05/2017 4:36:01 AM PST by Spok
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To: T-Bird45
It’s the kind of place where a simple Trump sign or cardboard cutout is seen by some as a show of pride in working-class values, but by others as a racist affront.

And there you have it folks.

For Trump supporters to even exist is "racist."

But this is OK...just so you know.


35 posted on 11/05/2017 4:40:20 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: tuffydoodle
Racial divide? Kind of like “the knock out game”? Or very high black on white crime rate? Black on white rape?

The Department of Justice stopped releasing racial rape crime statistics in 2009, the first year of Obama's reign of terror in office.

I wonder why?


36 posted on 11/05/2017 4:43:01 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

As usual, a photo speaks a thousand words. Thanks for making that addition to thread.


37 posted on 11/05/2017 4:43:20 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: blueplum
And, he's a male. He triggers those with parental issues, because he just oozes authority and they don't like that either, having not had to respond to any parental authority for so long.

Bingo.

38 posted on 11/05/2017 4:44:24 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: wdnhrse
After Obama was elected he informed me that he would no longer pay $8.00 a month, he felt that he had paid enough rent and it was now going to be free. I did explain that he was not going to be allowed to stay if he didn’t pay his rent. After he was $16.00 behind in his rent, I bagan the eviction process. When we got before a Judge, the renter said that “We in charge now. Black folks don’t work for you no more, we are finally free, and you got to accept that.” The Judge didn’t see it that way, and he was evicted. The nonpayment of rent was a breach of the Sec 8 contract. He was not allowed to have another Sec8 contract for two years. The last time I saw him he was screaming at the Judge that Obama was going to have him fired. That didn’t happen. I put up with this and many like it for five years and then began working in another field. It just kept getting worse through those eight years.

Outrageous, but not at all surprising.

Watch this about a Section 8 renter:

Every Landlord's Worst Nightmare | Section 8

39 posted on 11/05/2017 4:47:53 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: T-Bird45

So much of this feels completely contrived and made up.

This is a who’s who of boo boos we’ve heard for a year.

I have been in 8 states in the past 3 months; red, blue and purple. I have heard one political comment. I think you have to look for these stories or find Facebook examples because I just don’t see it daily.


40 posted on 11/05/2017 5:10:53 AM PST by PittsburghAfterDark (The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
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