Green Light

The bigots are crawling out of the swamp where they have been hiding.  But now they have received the green light to come out in the light of day by Trump.

Homophobic And Racist Posters Are Part Of Ongoing Harassment At McCormick Jr. High
Wyoming Public Media
By Tennessee Watson
March 28, 2019

A Cheyenne junior high was the target of hate speech Wednesday. Racist and homophobic posters discovered at McCormick Junior High have students concerned for their safety.

An eighth grader, who we're calling Nicole to protect her privacy, said this isn't the first time she's witnessed homophobia. She was a member of the school's gay-straight alliance or GSA, but within the last couple weeks, she stopped going because she felt targeted. She said homophobic slurs have been directed at her.
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Cheyenne Representative Sara Burlingame is Wyoming Equality's executive director. She said the organization, which works to defend the rights of LGBTQ Wyomingites, immediately started to receive calls from concerned parents and community members.

"The message from the community has been super unequivocal and super clear: this is unacceptable. It does not reflect the values of Cheyenne. We're not going tolerate this," said Burlingame. "And we're going to show up and support our LGBT youth and our black youth with unwavering pride and support."

Guess what the school system’s response was?

Racist, homophobic flyers passed out, gay students bullied at junior high school
The Torrington Telegram
By Morgan Hughes Wyoming Tribune Eagle
March 29, 2019

CHEYENNE — Flyers reading “it’s great to be straight it’s not OK to be gay,” “black lives only matter because if it weren’t for them who would pick our cotton,” and “Join the KKK,” with “the confederate kid club” in parentheses beneath it were taped to walls and passed out by students during the day Wednesday at McCormick Junior High School.

It’s the most recent event in a chain of bullying of McCormick’s Gay Straight Alliance students, according to a teacher at the school.

Principal Jeff Conine told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle there were only two flyers, and that they were taped to a wall in an area without security cameras. He said teachers found the flyers and took them down before the school day began.

But at least three other, independent reports claim the walls of the school were papered with the flyers, and that students with Confederate flags were passing out the flyers to targeted students in the GSA club at the school.

Towleroad reported…

Cook was then FIRED after reporting the hate speech to Wyoming Equality: “Kaycee Cook tells the Wyoming Tribune Eagle that McCormick Junior High Principal Jeff Conine sent her an email Wednesday saying she was no longer welcome as a guest or a substitute teacher at the school. Cook says she thinks Conine took action after she called members of a local LGBTQ advocacy group to tell them about the flyers.”

Yup, they fired the messenger instead of trying to stop the bullying