While people point to Donald Trump tapping the anger of the American electorate, you always know that, in the political physics, Newton’s third law still applies, that for “every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
The positive part about Donald Trump’s candidacy is the awakening of a disillusioned young African-American voice in the electorate.
And North Carolina was key.
That’s where Sierra K. Thomas was awakened.
Thomas is a student at Virginia State University in Petersburg, Virginia, who gave her first person account to the Washington Post.
“As I sat in the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville, N.C., earlier this month, waiting for Donald Trump’s rally to start, my adrenaline began to rush. I knew I could be hurt for what I was about to do,” she wrote.
“I’d driven three hours by myself that morning from college in southern Virginia to protest his campaign. For months, I’d been reading and watching coverage of Trump’s rise. His rallies had become spaces where people felt comfortable being openly racist and hateful, because he allowed them to. And with his ugly rhetoric about Muslims, Mexicans and ‘the old days’ before political correctness, he has encouraged it.”
