A Georgia High School teacher was left a note in class suggesting she hang herself with her Muslim headscarf.
"Why don’t you tie it around your neck & hang yourself with it," the note said according to The Atlanta Journal Constitution. The letter was signed: "America."
Mariah Teli is a language arts teacher at Dacula High outside of Atlanta. She is convinced the note was left by a student in reaction to Donald Trump’s election.
"I feel children feel safe making comments that are racist or sexist because of him," she told the newspaper.
The Sun newspaper in Great Britain reported that she posted on Facebook she wears the headscarf as a "practice of my
"Spreading hate isn’t going to 'make America great again,'" she added, according to the newspaper.
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