Does the Trump presidency increase racism in America?

More recently, his political rise was built on promulgating the lie that the nation's first black president was born in Kenya. ... In June 2017, Trump said 15,000 recent immigrants from Haiti “all have AIDS” and that 40,000 Nigerians, once seeing the United States, would never “go back to their huts” in Africa. read more

Trump has stoked the fires of racism in America. This is Trump’s political base, it is the root of most of Trump’s convictions and policy and it is Trump’s most effective way at maintaining white support of his presidency. read more

People hold signs during a march and rally against the election of Republican Donald Trump as President of the United States in Los Angeles on Nov. 12, 2016. read more

In the first days after the 2016 presidential election, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project administered an online survey to K–12 educators from across the country. Over 10,000 teachers, counselors, administrators and others who work in schools have responded. read more