Led by black leaders, students at American University in one of Washington’s wealthiest neighborhoods ripped the election of Donald Trump by burning the American flag and chanting, “America was never great.”
Skipping classes where a year costs over $61,000, five times the U.S. poverty level, the Black Student Alliance led hundreds in protests Wednesday in a demonstration played out in several other cities and in front of the Washington Trump International Hotel.
From the American University Eagle.
Sophomore Isaiah Young, the PR director for the Black Student Alliance, linked Trump to black lynchings in his address to students.
“The fact that some of you voted for a man who was endorsed by people who hung people who looked like me is disgusting,” Young said, according to AU’s student newspaper, the Eagle. “And on that note, America was never great, f—- Donald Trump, f—- white supremacists and f—- the American flag.”
Graduates from American University, which specializes in politics, journalism and foreign affairs, often end up on Capitol Hill as aides and in the administration, especially at the State Department, and the news media.
Read the Eagle’s report here.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
