Keith Payne

In the days following Donald Trump’s election, reports of hate crimes and racial harassment surged. African-American freshmen at University of Pennsylvania were spammed with messages about lynching black people. Vandals in Wellsville, New York painted swastikas on a building at a softball field with the message “Make American White Again.” Fliers distributed at Texas State University read, “Now that our man Trump is elected and Republicans own both the Senate and the House—time to organize tar & feather vigilante squads and go arrest and torture those deviant university leaders spouting off all this diversity garbage.”