Friday, November 11, 2016 3:31:02 AM
‘Bad Donald Trump’: Melbourne girl’s heartbreaking essay
"Donald Trump May Not Be a Fascist, But He is Leading Us Merrily Down That Path"
Liz Burke, news.com.au
November 11, 2016 9:05am
A NINE-YEAR-OLD Muslim girl from Melbourne has written a heartbreaking essay about America’s President-elect Donald Trump, who she said is a “really mean, racist person”.
The full-page note was handed to her teacher on Thursday morning, who had been speaking with her year four class about the shock US election result the day before.
“We were talking about the election during circle time because a lot of the kids in the schools, a lot of them are Muslim, and they are quite tuned in to what’s going on,” the teacher told news.com.au.
“Afterwards we were doing some writing and this one girl seemed to be concentrating really hard on what she was doing. Then she brought that up to me, and I was just amazed by what she had written.”
The handwritten essay was titled “Bad Donald Trump”, and addressed the little girl’s concerns about the new “president in America”.
“He wants to make a wall so no Mexican people come, also Muslim people,” she wrote.
“It makes me sad because I am Muslim myself and he does not respect us and women. He does not think about family, he just thinks about himself.”
‘I want all American people to come here to have a better life’.
The young student said people who voted for Mr Trump “made a really big mistake because now America has to stick up with him as president”.
But she offered what she believed was a simple solution to Americans who may be marginalised under the Trump presidency.
“Donald Trump is a really mean, racist person. Well, I can describe him in many ways but don’t worry, I want all American people to come here to have a better life,” she wrote.
The girl also made mention of Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton, who she believed “was supposed to win president”.
“She is not racist, a very good person. She would include both men and women, which is fair,” she wrote.
“I wish Hillary Clinton was the president and my teacher would have cried tears of joy.”
The students had been quite affected watching the poll results roll in during class on Wednesday afternoon, the teacher said.
The 28-year-old, who had spent 18 months living in the US before beginning her teaching job in Dandenong and hopes to return there in the future, admitted she was “super emotional” when she learnt of the gregarious businessman-turned-world leader’s victory.
“We’d spoken about it (at school) in the weeks leading up to the election, and I guess a lot of the kids were a little bit worried,” she said.
“I had another girl say to me, ‘Does this mean I’m not allowed to go to America now?’ They’re only nine and 10, so I guess they only view the things that are applicable to them, and when they hear the world ‘Muslim’, when they hear that a leader is anti-Muslim, they get worried.”
She said there was heightened interest around the historic poll in the community where she works, which has a large refugee and immigrant population.
IMAGE: Trump has won. What now?
She was especially touched by her student’s idea that Americans should move to Australia, where she believed they could experience a peaceful and inclusive lifestyle.
“That was really powerful for a nine-year-old to just get it, and to see it so clearly,” she said.
While protests against Mr Trump’s victory continue to rage in the US, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has urged Australians to respect the election’s outcome.
Mr Turnbull has praised the President-elect as a “practical businessman” and “deal-maker’.
The PM yesterday called Mr Trump to congratulate him on gaining the presidency, and said the alliance between the two countries would remain strong for years to come.
Multicultural Frontline
Originally published as Aussie girl’s heartbreaking note .. http://tinyurl.com/j9zdjdx
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/bad-donald-trump-melbourne-girls-heartbreaking-essay/news-story/d546002bfb31f1c29bed8945c246c48d
"Donald Trump May Not Be a Fascist, But He is Leading Us Merrily Down That Path"
Liz Burke, news.com.au
November 11, 2016 9:05am
A NINE-YEAR-OLD Muslim girl from Melbourne has written a heartbreaking essay about America’s President-elect Donald Trump, who she said is a “really mean, racist person”.
The full-page note was handed to her teacher on Thursday morning, who had been speaking with her year four class about the shock US election result the day before.
“We were talking about the election during circle time because a lot of the kids in the schools, a lot of them are Muslim, and they are quite tuned in to what’s going on,” the teacher told news.com.au.
“Afterwards we were doing some writing and this one girl seemed to be concentrating really hard on what she was doing. Then she brought that up to me, and I was just amazed by what she had written.”
The handwritten essay was titled “Bad Donald Trump”, and addressed the little girl’s concerns about the new “president in America”.
“He wants to make a wall so no Mexican people come, also Muslim people,” she wrote.
“It makes me sad because I am Muslim myself and he does not respect us and women. He does not think about family, he just thinks about himself.”
‘I want all American people to come here to have a better life’.
The young student said people who voted for Mr Trump “made a really big mistake because now America has to stick up with him as president”.
But she offered what she believed was a simple solution to Americans who may be marginalised under the Trump presidency.
“Donald Trump is a really mean, racist person. Well, I can describe him in many ways but don’t worry, I want all American people to come here to have a better life,” she wrote.
The girl also made mention of Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton, who she believed “was supposed to win president”.
“She is not racist, a very good person. She would include both men and women, which is fair,” she wrote.
“I wish Hillary Clinton was the president and my teacher would have cried tears of joy.”
The students had been quite affected watching the poll results roll in during class on Wednesday afternoon, the teacher said.
The 28-year-old, who had spent 18 months living in the US before beginning her teaching job in Dandenong and hopes to return there in the future, admitted she was “super emotional” when she learnt of the gregarious businessman-turned-world leader’s victory.
“We’d spoken about it (at school) in the weeks leading up to the election, and I guess a lot of the kids were a little bit worried,” she said.
“I had another girl say to me, ‘Does this mean I’m not allowed to go to America now?’ They’re only nine and 10, so I guess they only view the things that are applicable to them, and when they hear the world ‘Muslim’, when they hear that a leader is anti-Muslim, they get worried.”
She said there was heightened interest around the historic poll in the community where she works, which has a large refugee and immigrant population.
IMAGE: Trump has won. What now?
She was especially touched by her student’s idea that Americans should move to Australia, where she believed they could experience a peaceful and inclusive lifestyle.
“That was really powerful for a nine-year-old to just get it, and to see it so clearly,” she said.
While protests against Mr Trump’s victory continue to rage in the US, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has urged Australians to respect the election’s outcome.
Mr Turnbull has praised the President-elect as a “practical businessman” and “deal-maker’.
The PM yesterday called Mr Trump to congratulate him on gaining the presidency, and said the alliance between the two countries would remain strong for years to come.
Multicultural Frontline
Originally published as Aussie girl’s heartbreaking note .. http://tinyurl.com/j9zdjdx
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/bad-donald-trump-melbourne-girls-heartbreaking-essay/news-story/d546002bfb31f1c29bed8945c246c48d
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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