30 Black Students kicked out of Trump Rally

During Donald Trump’s rally last night at Valdosta State University in Georgia 30 black students were told to leave the rally by Secret Service agents while they stood silently at the top of the bleachers.

USA Today reports the agents told the students, "the presidential candidate had requested their removal before he began speaking.” And in a video interview with USA Today one of the students is seen crying saying, “I don’t understand why they would do something like that,” Davis said. “I have not experienced any racism on this campus until now.”

The students were removed before Trump started speaking and for no obvious reason as they were not demonstrating a protest or causing a scene. As all the students are black many have argued why did  Trump's campaign target these students given that there is already a strong perception that the Republican frontrunner is anti-black and anti-hispanic?

USA Today reports, “The sight of the students, who were visibly upset, being led outside by law enforcement officials created a stir at a university that was a whites-only campus until 1963.”

The video footage of the black students crying is ­­­­­­extremely disturbing and this form of overt racism at their own university is unacceptable. Trump’s campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks has already denied the story in an email to USA Today stating, "There is no truth to this whatsoever.”

The lack of recognition or remorse for this incident is typical of the Trump campaign and is disrespectful to the black students who experienced this and the Valdosta community.

Original Story: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/02/29/donald-...
 

Mary Schlichte