ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 18, 2016 ON HUFFINGTON POST.
The media has been reporting
extensively on what the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance
project has dubbed the "Trump Effect": the fear and anxiety which the
President-elect's campaign rhetoric - and his policy pronouncements, especially
regarding immigrants and Muslims - appears to be engendering among Latino, Hispanic,
African-American, and Muslim children, immigrant children, and children of
immigrants, and the bullying, intimidation, slurs, and threats which appear to
be increasingly directed at them.
The media has been reporting extensively on what the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance project has dubbed the "Trump Effect": the fear and anxiety which the President-elect's campaign rhetoric - and his policy pronouncements, especially regarding immigrants and Muslims - appears to be engendering among Latino, Hispanic, African-American, and Muslim children, immigrant children, and children of immigrants, and the bullying, intimidation, slurs, and threats which appear to be increasingly directed at them. Sadly, the Trump Effect also seems to be playing out in my domain of youth sports.