High school students say they were harassed at Howard University for wearing pro-Trump gear


A Pennsylvania high school student who visited the nation’s capital last week says she was harassed for wearing “Make America Great Again” attire that showed her support for President Trump.
Allie Vandee, a student from Union City, Pennsylvania, was in Washington, D.C. on Saturday when she and some high schoolers traveling with her decided to visit Howard University, a historically black college, for lunch.
Vandee took to Twitter to describe her visit to HU. She said upon entering the cafeteria, a man shouted an expletive directed at her. The group of students hadn’t made it fully inside the cafeteria when someone “made physical contact” with her friend, Sarah Applequist, by grabbing her “MAGA” hat and removing it from her head.

https://twitter.com/HowardU

 However, a separate Twitter handle for the school’s dining services tweeted in response to a student: “We will take any action necessary to ensure that HU students feel safe& comfortable in our dining spaces. This group is no longer on campus.”

 https://twitter.com/EssenceDalton

 https://twitter.com/HUdining
Vandee said the dining hall’s response shows school officials were “uninformed.”
“I understand with incidents in Charlottesville where HU is trying their best to be as precautions (sp) as possible to keep their students safe from people who purposely show up on campus to enrage the student body,” Vandee said. “However, mine and Sarah's case was completely different. We were both innocent 16 year old Trump fans who HAD to eat lunch on campus. Ultimately I feel like the HU twitter page owners were very uninformed.”
Regardless, Vandee said the harassment won’t deter her from proudly wearing her Trump gear.
“I will always support our President when and where I please. I will feel safe wearing it because it never phased me before so I will not let it phase me now!”

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