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‘Get off the stage!’ Crowd yells at commencement speaker after she uses Spanish, mentions Trump
Washington Post ^ | May 24, 2016 | Susan Svrluga

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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I bet she thinks Obama is a unifier.
1 posted on 05/25/2016 6:16:13 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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I find this perplexing, seeing that it is in CALIFORNIA.................


2 posted on 05/25/2016 6:18:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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“And it’s a testament to what has happened in our country. Our country is really divided.”

Thanks to people like her. What the heck does she think she’s doing giving part of her address in Spanish? That is totally disrespectful to people who don’t know Spanish. Everybody should know English. Last time I checked this was the United States.


3 posted on 05/25/2016 6:19:44 AM PDT by winner3000
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Welcome to Jerry Brown’s Northern Mexico.....


4 posted on 05/25/2016 6:20:10 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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Witness the “Reconquesta”.


5 posted on 05/25/2016 6:20:37 AM PDT by allendale
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Bunch of racist, sexist California college students.


6 posted on 05/25/2016 6:24:28 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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I listened to the clip. She should have stopped at I’m very proud of you, and not trashed Donald Trump. It’s like a disease with these media opponents of Trump, they have to deliver one final kick at the man who challenges them.


7 posted on 05/25/2016 6:25:24 AM PDT by Ciexyz ("You know who gets hurt? The people who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved their money."- Trump)
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I listened to the clip. She should have stopped at I’m very proud of you, and not trashed Donald Trump. It’s like a disease with these media opponents of Trump, they have to deliver one final kick at the man who challenges them.


8 posted on 05/25/2016 6:25:27 AM PDT by Ciexyz ("You know who gets hurt? The people who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved their money."- Trump)
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Last time I checked this was the United States.

With the current dickheads in DC, not for long.


9 posted on 05/25/2016 6:25:47 AM PDT by mothball
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That headline is misleading and wrong. When I read the headline, it intimated the audience was anti Trump. But in actuality, she was told to get off the stage when she TRASHED Trump. The protesters in the audience were patriotic Americans.


10 posted on 05/25/2016 6:26:24 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: Texas Eagle

English as the Official Governmental Language, she should have to speak English in a public building at a public gathering.

Unless she gets a permit.


11 posted on 05/25/2016 6:27:33 AM PDT by Zenjitsuman (Y)
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>>>Tensions worsened as Salinas began offering advice to journalism students to use the tools of media to rebut political figures such as Donald Trump. That’s when folks began yelling things to Salinas such as, “Get off the stage!” and “Trash!”<<<

oops..... dang American loving parents were in the audience - guess she hadn’t counted on that.


12 posted on 05/25/2016 6:29:00 AM PDT by sdpatriot ("Thank you very much, sdpatriot!! Smooch!" - from JR - send him a buck!!!!)
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People like her refuse to acknowledge that we are unified by speaking English in this country. Unified! It brought us together. Italians, French, Germans, so many others learned English and past generations bonded through English. She wants the rules changed for selfish reasons.


13 posted on 05/25/2016 6:31:37 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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Therein lies the problem. A good many Hispanics, especially the “young skulls full of mush” as Rush calls them, think of themselves as Mexican or Salvadoran first and American second. They’re the ones causing the Balkanization of this country and it has to end. We’re long overdue for a moratorium on all immigration to this country. No more student or worker visas. No more H-1B “thieves” taking American jobs and electing government officials who have the backbone in enforcing our immigration laws already on the books.


14 posted on 05/25/2016 6:35:33 AM PDT by dowcaet
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“And it’s a testament to what has happened in our country. Our country is really divided.”

Yes, yes it is. And it's people like you who are dividing it. My father's family emigrated from Russia. No Russian was allowed once the family moved to the United States. English was the language of my family's new home, and English was what it was going to be.

15 posted on 05/25/2016 6:39:05 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (I before E, except after C. Weird.)
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The country has been divided for years. Didn’t just happen. Democrats are using the divide to gain power, and to divide the country even more.

They are bringing bearded savages into the country to destroy Judeo-Christian values.
They are bringing Latin Americans in to vote democrat.
They are making everyone think that white cops deliberately target blacks and shoot them, in order to turn blacks into a permanent, angry, dependent underclass that reliably votes democrat.


16 posted on 05/25/2016 6:39:48 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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“.. Our country is really divided...”

Hasn’t that been the goal of the Hispanic activists for a decade or more. Turmoil, dissension and violence are their primary weapons. Divide and conquer, “return California to Mexico!!”


17 posted on 05/25/2016 6:41:33 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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The reason America is “divided” is that many patriotic Americans refuse to bow to the wishes of people like Ms. Salinas. In her delusional mind we are the problem. What she refuses to understand is that while being a country of immigrants America retains a uniqueness that is hers alone. One of the most common unifiers know is language. The fact that Ms. Salinas would give a portion of a commencement speech at an American university is divisive by it's very nature. She however would call it inclusive. Inclusive to whom? The English speakers who have absolutely no idea what she's talking about? Or the Spanish speakers in the audience who never took the time to learn English?
18 posted on 05/25/2016 6:45:35 AM PDT by RU88 (Bow to no man)
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She whines about the nation being divided...in a language that half the audience doesn’t speak. It seems to me that the first rule to prevent a divided nation is to have one language and all newcomers assimilate to that language.


19 posted on 05/25/2016 6:49:13 AM PDT by Perchant
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Was the Spanish lingo for those in Rio Lindo?


20 posted on 05/25/2016 6:55:27 AM PDT by bigbob
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