Donald Trump “Chalkings” Now Labeled Hate Crime
http://downtrend.com/robertgehl/donald-trump-chalkings-now-labeled-hate-crimeApril 15, 2016| by Robert Gehl
Donald Trump chalk markings at DePaul University in Chicago have been labeled a “hate crime” by the Black Student Union.
They’re accusing the College Republicans of the hate crime because they organized the “chalking” outside the Student Center last week and made marks praising the police, Donald Trump and Israel
Though BSU representative Michael Lynch told The College Fix that he filed a hate-crime report against the CRs, both the DePaul administration and Public Safety department told The Fix they had not received any such report from Lynch.
In a campuswide email Monday obtained by The Fix, Vice President for Student Affairs Eugene Zdziarski said “many students, faculty and staff found the chalk messages offensive, hurtful and divisive.”
They also violated campus regulations by endangering DePaul’s tax-exempt status, he said – a claim that has been repeatedly challenged by a free-speech legal advocacy group, The College Fix is reporting.
The DePaul CRs’ event is part of a recent campus movement known on Twitter as #thechalkening, in which students have chalked messages associated with conservatives – as simple as “Trump 2016” and as provocative as “abortion is murder.”
Such messages have angered students and aggravated administrators at Emory University, the University of Kansas, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, University of California-Santa Barbara and University of Michigan, among others.
The DePaul chalking included Trump allusions such as “Make DePaul Great Again,” “Build That Wall” and “Trump Train 2016.” They also referenced the pro-police Blue Lives Matter movement, support for Israel and other presidential candidates.
