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bedsitter23I don't find myself apologizing for my adopted state of Iowa, of which I have now spent a third of my life. Iowa has a progressive history. You can go back to Iowa's history with the Underground railroad. Iowa was where the first university admitted women, the second state to legalize interracial marriage (1851) and the second state to legalize gay marriage (2007). Iowa even this month saw one of the biggest schools in Des Moines introduce gender safe bathrooms while the rest of the nation is trying to pass laws to ban such things, or telling Caitlyn Jenner jokes and "I wish I was transgender, so i could go in the Ladies Rooms jokes" like Mike Huckabee.
Parts of Iowa of course are not so progressive. Iowa has its share of Sundown Towns and keeps re-electing the guy who said immigrants have calves the size of cantaloupes because they are all drug mules.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump, well, unless you have lived the last year in outer space, well, you know.... But in case you don't. He is the guy who says Obama isn't a real American, Ted Cruz isn't a real American, and with a name like Rubio, he has his doubts about Marco. (Donald is the son of a Scottish mother who spoke Gaelic in the home) Trump has also secured the endorsement of David Duke and retweeted an endorsement from a group called White Genocide.
In which case, this story isn't so surprising, but it does prove the fact "Trump" in 2016 is a racial epithet:
High school students in Des Moines, Iowa, this week chanted "Trump! Trump!" after a boys' basketball game. The chanters were from Dallas Center-Grimes High, which has a largely white population. Their school's team had just lost to Perry High School, which has a more diverse student population...
Parts of Iowa of course are not so progressive. Iowa has its share of Sundown Towns and keeps re-electing the guy who said immigrants have calves the size of cantaloupes because they are all drug mules.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump, well, unless you have lived the last year in outer space, well, you know.... But in case you don't. He is the guy who says Obama isn't a real American, Ted Cruz isn't a real American, and with a name like Rubio, he has his doubts about Marco. (Donald is the son of a Scottish mother who spoke Gaelic in the home) Trump has also secured the endorsement of David Duke and retweeted an endorsement from a group called White Genocide.
In which case, this story isn't so surprising, but it does prove the fact "Trump" in 2016 is a racial epithet:
High school students in Des Moines, Iowa, this week chanted "Trump! Trump!" after a boys' basketball game. The chanters were from Dallas Center-Grimes High, which has a largely white population. Their school's team had just lost to Perry High School, which has a more diverse student population...
Dallas Center-Grimes athletic director Steve Watson said about a dozen students chanted Trump's name three or four times. He said privacy policies don't allow him to disclose whether those students were disciplined.
“One of our administrators knew right away that it would be offensive because Perry has a high minority population,” Watson said.
Perry Coach Ned Menke said several of his players did take offense to the chant.
“When you find out about it, your initial reaction was kind of disbelief," he said. "Like, 'Really? That just happened?' "
