Posted on 05/25/2016 6:16:13 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Some people in the crowd at a graduation ceremony at California State University, Fullerton, shouted at the commencement speaker after she talked about presidential candidate Donald Trump and gave a brief section of her address in Spanish.
“It’s really sad,” the commencement speaker, Maria Elena Salinas, an anchor for Spanish language broadcast network Univision, said Tuesday. “And it’s a testament to what has happened in our country. Our country is really divided.”
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If she’s part of a ‘tribe’ and not an American she needs to go back to the country of her tribe.
Lots of Hispanics are Americans and they were booing her too...
The U.S. doesn’t have an official language.
She’d like to think it was hispanics vs. whites, I’m sure, but this is Orange County, CA. That means a whole lot of other minorities like Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese, Indians, etc. were in the audience, and they don’t speak Spanish, either.
“Mentions” Trump? More like slandered/trashed him, thus ruining a commencement.
> Our country is really divided
No, foreigners ramming their language down our throat is arrogant and we’re sick of it.
Calla te pendeja! I don’t wanna press dos for Espanol.
If you can’t habla Inglis, you’re in the wrong country.
Then she takes a selfie. Get off the stage. !Chinga te!
My mother in law came to the US legally in her teens from Italy. She worked in sweatshops to be able to send money to her family to come over. She, like your family, completely assimilated & has nothing but love for America. Now, she regrets not teaching her kids Italian ; )
So what happened to that pride in America that earlier immigrants had? Also, they need errr would have dreamed of receiving any gov’t assistance. They have pride & work/ed hard & are living the American dream.
Never
She complains about our divisions and then delivers part of her speech in Spanish. Just another hypocrite.
Before anyone accuses me of racism, I myself are 2nd generation American. My grandparents emigrated from Cuba, legally. My great grandparents were from Spain.
The US has official documents, starting with the Declaration on Independence and the Constitution.
"100% in English - with just a littlewithout a trace of Spanish lingo.”
I saw the clip and am a bit perplexed, because I didn’t find the crowd was particularly against her. Most seem to cheer her statements. It was only a few who “boo’d” her, or who told her to get off the stage.
I thought most were for her????
Regardless, the US doesn’t have an official language. And for what it’s worth, Spanish was the official language in California for a couple of centuries before the first English speakers even showed up.
Our language is English. Why did she speak in Spanish?
The Media will always focus on the most negative aspect of a story, because it’s the best for ratings.
“If it bleeds, it leads!” is their motto.................
It wouldn’t matter even if it did. A Fed judge would declare it discriminatory......................
“Our country is really divided.” First true statement she’s made. But she stopped too soon, by not identifying obama as the cause. Moreover, she can’t possibly think that speaking two different languages to a crowd is a unifying act.
The reason Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California are in the US rather than Mexico now is quite simply that the writ of the Spanish speakers there did no run as far as they claimed it did. The Spanish claimed CA and TX, but the Spanish - and later the Mexicans - did not effectively control immigration into that area. Hence, Mexico lost it to immigrants who did end up controlling it.
It’s really sad,” the commencement speaker, Maria Elena Salinas, an anchor for Spanish language broadcast network Univision, said Tuesday. “And it’s a testament to what has happened in our country. Our country is really divided.”
At the federal level, the United States has no official language, but 27 U.S. states and all inhabited U.S. territories, excluding Puerto Rico have designated English the official language and courts have found that residents do not have a right to government services in their preferred language.
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