Students at St. Louis' prestigious Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School (MICDS) who complained that they were discriminated against for supporting Donald Trump have garnered a response from a young black alum of the school — who details the numerous incidents of "casual racism" she experienced throughout her eight years there.
"All students should be treated with respect, but if MICDS and other similar private schools want to address political civility, they should also soothe minorities who are too scared of sounding 'ungrateful' because they're one of five Latino students or one of six black students," Leah Thomas writes in a public LinkedIn post. After all, Thomas writes, rather than getting an "apology letter" like the Trump-supporting students, she was told to "deal with" the discomfort she experienced.
Thomas writes that she attended MICDS from fifth grade through graduation before attending college in California, beginning in 2013.…