White teens wear MAGA hats to Howard U

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How Howard University is responding to high school students wearing ‘Make America Great Again’ hats on campus

www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/how-howard-university-is-responding-to-high-school-students-wearing-make-america-great-again-hats/2017/08/23/da75cb20-8749-11e7-a50f-e0d4e6ec070a_story.html

(Buzzfeed pic)



The incident unfolded Saturday when a group of high school students from Pennsylvania who were part of a Talent Search program went to Howard’s on-campus diner, the Annex, for lunch.

The program aims to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds pursue higher-education opportunities, according to Brad Whitman, the director of federal and state programs at the Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit, which provides services for 17 public school districts and oversees the Talent Search program. Whitman said the trip to Howard was arranged through the travel agency that planned the trip.

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Allie Van Dee, 16, and a friend on the trip said they purchased the hats and a shirt with the Donald Trump campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” at the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City in Arlington before going to the Howard campus. Van Dee said she did not know Howard was a historically black university, adding that it would not have prompted them to remove their Trump paraphernalia.

When they entered the cafeteria, according to Van Dee, they were “harassed” by Howard students as one took her friend’s Trump hat. One of the supervisors of the Talent Search program intervened, and the high school students left the campus.

"What those kids did to me is not going to stop me from supporting the president. This opened my eyes to fake news, to what is really going on, and it cultured me a bit,” Van Dee said. “Trump is not the KKK. He is not a Nazi. He is not a white supremacist.”

[mrsukyankee]

Oh, Miss Van Dee, you have definitely NOT "been cultured". You have just remained an idiot and racist.

[Champagne Supernova]

So fucking basic racists.

[ECB]

I use the word "asshole" too much lately, but really, these assholes. They knew damn well what they were doing and they did it in order to get their 15 minutes.

I almost said that I'm baffled that people can't see that 45 is a racist, but then I realize that of course they don't - because they'd have to own up to their own racism and admit that actually, yes, the do "see color".

[taratru]

I want to slap them in their stupid little faces. Fucking stupid kids.

[downtoearth]

1. How can you be from Pennsylvania and not know the Howard is a HBCU?
2. How did those chaparones for a Washington DC site-seeing trip NOT know that they needed to talk to these kids about the political climate between their tour of DC and the president's VERY recent racist remarks?
3. WTF?

[Champagne Supernova]

And nobody in their stupid fucking group said "Um guys, don't buy that shit." and "Guys, don't wear that stuff to the school."? Nobody?

Get the fuck out of here.

[jeaniebueller]

What the fuck is wrong with the adults in this situation? Why did these students not know they were going to a HBCU (do we really believe that)? Why didn't the tour guide tell them to knock this shit off? And fucking sad to see these teenagers repeated the fake news garbage. I don't believe them, they knew exactly what they were doing. Fuck these people.

[sushi]

Their eyes are opened to fake news... by getting an actual real world experience. By "what's really going on" is that racist shit is happening all around you, you support a racist, and people aren't happy about that.

Dumbshits.

Also, I have zero percent shock they were at pentagon city. I was there often (Costco and grocery, mostly. It was on my metro route home). These teen groups travel in packs buying shitty shit from the tourist shops/stands and standing on the left side of the escalator. Motherfuckers. I probably have an unhealthy level of rage at that behavior.

[elleblue]

This bunch of Beckys knew exactly what they were doing.

[raangoli]

"What those kids did to me is not going to stop me from supporting the president. This opened my eyes to fake news, to what is really going on, and it cultured me a bit,” Van Dee said. “Trump is not the KKK. He is not a Nazi. He is not a white supremacist.”

This is so frightening. Yet, I am asking myself why I'm surprised. Of course she thinks she is the victim. 

[iammalcolmx]

They are pretty damn lucky the folks at my Alma Mater have behavior. Whoever told them "Fuck y'all" is my hero.

I mean:

[sewf]

Aug 23, 2017 14:09:04 GMT -5 Champagne Supernova said:

And nobody in their stupid fucking group said "Um guys, don't buy that shit." and "Guys, don't wear that stuff to the school."? Nobody?

Get the fuck out of here.

I just saw on Buzzfeed, at least two other high school kids (both black, although the story doesn't say if anyone else said anything) told them that they shouldn't wear that crap, but they were ignored. It also said that the leaders came up and asked the white girls if they were uncomfortable, and since they said they were (fragile little feelings), the entire group had to leave. So you know, protect the white girls instead of educating them on racism, and making them take the hats and shirt off or just taking them off of campus.

[robyn]

vapid bitches

ETA: semi-related to this, right after the election DH and I were taking DD to a play gym in our area that is specifically geared toward children of all abilities, especially those on the Autism spectrum and other learning and physical disabilities. A man and woman get out of their basic BMW convertible and walk in in front of us. This asshole was rocking a MAGA hat. In a space specifically designed to be a safe space for children with disabilities. I don't think I've ever given anyone such a hate-filled dirty look. In hindsight I wish I had unloaded on his ass. 

[sushi]

Has "cultured" changed definition to mean "confirms racist beliefs?"

Back in my day it meant exposure to new ideas and experiences which led to broadening of your perspective. I must not understand the language of kids these days.

[Champagne Supernova]

Aug 23, 2017 14:14:43 GMT -5 sewf said:

Aug 23, 2017 14:09:04 GMT -5 Champagne Supernova said:

And nobody in their stupid fucking group said "Um guys, don't buy that shit." and "Guys, don't wear that stuff to the school."? Nobody?

Get the fuck out of here.

I just saw on Buzzfeed, at least two other high school kids (both black, although the story doesn't say if anyone else said anything) told them that they shouldn't wear that crap, but they were ignored. It also said that the leaders came up and asked the white girls if they were uncomfortable, and since they said they were (fragile little feelings), the entire group had to leave. So you know, protect the white girls instead of educating them on racism, and making them take the hats and shirt off or just taking them off of campus.

Of course.

[Champagne Supernova]

Aug 23, 2017 14:11:37 GMT -5 raangoli said:

"What those kids did to me is not going to stop me from supporting the president. This opened my eyes to fake news, to what is really going on, and it cultured me a bit,” Van Dee said. “Trump is not the KKK. He is not a Nazi. He is not a white supremacist.”

This is so frightening. Yet, I am asking myself why I'm surprised. Of course she thinks she is the victim. 

Typical female Trump Voter behavior.

[ESF]

Aug 23, 2017 14:10:31 GMT -5 elleblue said:

This bunch of Beckys knew exactly what they were doing.

Yes. Wouldn't surprise me if their parents suggested the idea.

Next year, they will be suing Penn State over its affirmative action policies.

[mrshandy]

I go running on the National Mall on my lunch hour and see lots of idiot tourist teenagers wearing these hats around the National Mall. It just serves as a reminder how much the world sucks.

[btdt]

Aug 23, 2017 14:07:31 GMT -5 downtoearth said:

1. How can you be from Pennsylvania and not know the Howard is a HBCU?
2. How did those chaparones for a Washington DC site-seeing trip NOT know that they needed to talk to these kids about the political climate between their tour of DC and the president's VERY recent racist remarks?
3. WTF?

FTFY

[DotAndBuzz]

Nope. They knew exactly what they were doing. They were being overtly racist, and I guarantee you that they thought it would be "super funny."

I can hear the conversation now. "Oh my god, you guys, we should totally buy MAGA hats and wear them to Howard, and,like, see what the black people say!"

Basic racist bitches, who are going to now try to cry and backpedal with how they had NO IDEA, and what about free speech, and "reverse racism" bullshit. And the adults with them? They turned a blind eye, because they didn't disagree with what the kids were up to, and wanted to try to make people of color uncomfortable. Deplorables.

[georgeglass]

[StrawberryBlondie]

Aug 23, 2017 14:09:55 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

What the fuck is wrong with the adults in this situation? Why did these students not know they were going to a HBCU (do we really believe that)? Why didn't the tour guide tell them to knock this shit off? And fucking sad to see these teenagers repeated the fake news garbage. I don't believe them, they knew exactly what they were doing. Fuck these people.

I mean, I grew up in middle of nowhere northern MN and I knew Howard was a HBCU when I was their age.

[sporklemotion]

Let me guess-- it was a "social experiment."

The fact that they bought them right before makes me doubt their claim that they didn't know (as does the info from Buzzfeed mentioned above).

So gross.

edit: I can almost believe that someone might not know that Howard is an HBCU (I work with high school students, and some of what they don't know about the world beyond our town is shocking), but I would think that someone on their way to visit would have figured it out. 

[mrsbro]

In addition to no adult speaking to them about their choices, no adult reminded them that the internet never forgets.

[morecoffeeplease]

Aug 23, 2017 14:09:55 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

What the fuck is wrong with the adults in this situation? Why did these students not know they were going to a HBCU (do we really believe that)? Why didn't the tour guide tell them to knock this shit off? And fucking sad to see these teenagers repeated the fake news garbage. I don't believe them, they knew exactly what they were doing. Fuck these people.

I read a follow up article on this today and two students from another school said they warned them and their tour guide did too.

Let me see if I can find it. 

Edit: here it is www.buzzfeed.com/nidhiprakash/teens-maga-hats-howard?utm_term=.ilKe6qWNe&bffbnews#.ip3Y6WkgY



"No one asked us to take the hats off, no one told us the history of the college other than what year it was established in and who it was established by," Vandee said Tuesday.

But Eunissa Pullium, a 16-year-old student at Pennsylvania's Erie High — the other school on the trip — told BuzzFeed News the group's tour guide had informed the students Howard was an HBCU.

"Our tour guide told us it was an HBCU and everything and that's when we looked at what they were wearing and said, 'You can't wear that to a historically black college,'" said Pullium. "They just ignored it, like we didn’t say it at all."

[UMaineTeach]

From the Buzzfeed article

"We were not even through the front door to get through the cafeteria, and a man, a black man, walked, had walked through and took my friend Sarah’s hat right off her head," Vandee said in a phone interview with BuzzFeed News.

She says black man like a racist little girl who is telling her daddy and his friends knowing they will go kill the black man, or any black man to save their princess.

[atexan]

What I am not understanding is how these were the students from "disadvantaged backgrounds" who were selected for a "Talent Search." These dumb little girls are only disadvantaged in the brain department and only talented in the Beckery department.

[morecoffeeplease]

The girl Allie is getting slammed on twitter.

[JLV]

These basic bitches. They knew exactly what they were doing. Their parents and the other adults around them encourage this bullshit.