I WONDER HOW MANY OF THEM VOTED: Tennessee students protest Trump’s election.

About a hundred students sat on the ground on the pedestrian walkway, and others stood around them, linking arms. They held signs that read “I will not stop speaking Spanish,” “Hate is not an opinion” and “Silence is violence.”

Elizabeth Stanfield, a senior from Jackson, Tenn., who helped organize the protest late last night, said she wanted to create a space for people who are frustrated and struggling to gather.

“This campus is already incredibly violent to people of color, to LGBT people,” she said. But after the election, “there was a shift in the atmosphere, and walking around campus, you could feel it in the air.”

There was no advertising on social media and news of the plan spread by word of mouth, she said.

The protest, loosely comprised of the campus’ Diversity Matters student coalition, started near the amphitheater outside the humanities building at 12:30 p.m. The group marched along around the building and up pedestrian walkway.

I saw complaints on social media that they were blocking the path and making it hard for people to get to class, but I guess the university didn’t think it was a big enough problem to do anything.