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WELLSVILLE NY DAILY REPORTER

This graffiti was discovered the day after Donald Trump's election victory at a New York softball field.

A prominent US civil rights group says it has identified almost

900 incidents of harassment following Donald Trump's win in the
US presidential election.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is calling on Mr Trump to "act

strongly to squelch harassment".

They also urge Mr Trump to "reach out to the communities he's
injured".
The comments come as the group releases two reports into the
aftermath of the businessman's win.
Along with representatives of teachers' unions and other civil rights
groups, the SPLC outlines how they say Mr Trump's rhetoric and
actions have affected US society.
The SPLC has been monitoring social media and news reports, and an
online form that they have created for Americans to self-report hateful
incidents.

The BBC spoke to a Muslim-American couple targeted by an abusive caller

"Mr Trump should take responsibility for what's occurring, forcefully

reject hate and bigotry," the organisation said.
In their report, Ten Days After, they report finding hundreds of cases of
attacks against minorities - including instances of violence and
intimidation - some of which they directly link to the surprise Trump
victory on 8 November.

"An awful lot of these crimes are directly linked to the Trump campaign
in the sense that graffiti was left or words were shouted that directly
invoked Trump," Senior SPLC fellow Mark Potok told the BBC.

Motivations recorded in SPLC's hate incident count

by number of incidents

Source: Southern Poverty Law Center, 10 Days After Report

Multiple instances have been recorded of black people being told to

move to the back of the bus, a seating arrangement which was required
under Jim Crow-era segregation laws.
The words "Whites Only" and "Trump Nation" were painted on to a
church with a large immigrant population and a gay man was pulled
from his car and attacked by an assailant who used a slur to say "the
president says we can kill all you", the report finds.

Top Locations of Hate Incidents in SPLC report

Public Spaces
Primary and secondary schools
Workplace/Retail
University
Private Places

Source: Southern Poverty Law Center, 10 Days After Report

In their second report, titled After the Election, The Trump Effect
they surveyed 10,000 educators, finding that 90% have seen their
school's climate negatively impacted by what they call the "Trump
effect".
"It's time for our president-elect to use his voice to effectively and
unequivocally denounce these hateful acts that are done in his name,"
said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of
Teachers.
The report also finds that more than a quarter of the teachers observed
incidents of bigotry and harassment "that can be directly traced to
election rhetoric", including swastika graffiti, physical fights and threats
of violence.
Last week, Mr Trump did repudiate the fringe "alt-right" group
whose members celebrated his election win with Nazi salutes.
In an interview with the New York Times, he was quoted as saying: "I

condemn them. I disavow."

The SPLC has been very critical of Mr Trump's decision to appoint a

right-wing media executive to the role of chief White House strategist.
The group accused Stephen Bannon of being "the main driver behind
Breitbart [News] becoming a white ethno-nationalist propaganda mill".

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