Boos for Univision UC Commencement Speaker Who Spoke Spanish, Vilified Trump
"It's sad that racism is on the rise."
5.30.2016
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The Left never misses an opportunity to inculcate its next generation of flunkies -- particularly those graduating from the University of California school system.
The latest incident concerns a commencement speech given Sunday at California State University, Fullerton, by a Univision anchor who spoke Spanish, vilified GOP presidential contender Donald Trump, and singled out only Hispanic students in the graduating class for praise.
Fortunately, enough sane students at Cal State Fullerton had the wherewithal to openly reject the commencement speaker's political agenda and boo her accordingly.
A recording shows that the commencement speaker, Maria Elena Salinas, a prominent anchor for the Spanish-language network Univision, was booed after she praised Hispanic students in the crowd, spoke briefly in Spanish and made a critical reference to Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
The New York Times reports on the trouble surrounding Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas' keynote address:
A university official confirmed Wednesday that tensions had flared during Ms. Salinas’s address to graduates of the College of Communications. The video shows her smiling broadly as members of the audience first began to yell at her when she specifically praised Hispanic journalism graduates. The booing became louder when she referenced Mr. Trump.The trouble began when Ms. Salinas referred to the assembled graduates as the new “voice of Hispanic America,” drawing cries from the crowd. Hispanics make up the school’s largest single ethnic or racial group — at more than 40 percent of the student body — but many of the graduates were not Hispanic.“All of you are the future,” Ms. Salinas quickly responded. “Well, really, the youth are the future of our country. Those Hispanics who are here are the future of Hispanic America and the rest of you are the future of our country.”Audience members became more upset when Ms. Salinas said that journalists were often unfairly turned into “public enemy No. 1” by politicians and their supporters.“Imagine: They blame us so much for so many things that now they even blame us, the media, for creating Donald Trump. Imagine that!” she said, as some in the crowd started to boo her. “Isn’t that terrible? But we didn’t, right? We didn’t. Who did? I don’t know. But they are to blame.”
Denise De La Cruz, 23, a graduating student, said some people “looked visibly upset” when Ms. Salinas praised Hispanic students and mentioned Mr. Trump. There were shouts from the crowd of “get off the stage” and “trash,” she said.“The negativity started really when she solely addressed Latino journalism graduates, not only because it felt like she wasn’t including other majors but obviously not everyone present was Latino,” said Ms. De La Cruz, who wrote about the speech and the backlash for OC Weekly, a local magazine. “As soon as she said how happy she was for Latino journalism students you could hear people in the crowd yell, ‘What about us?’ ”
Salinas went on to use the hackneyed "racist" canard when challenged on her choice to speak Spanish during the commencement speech.
"If they complained about me speaking Spanish it’s sad racism is on the rise," Salinas responded in a Tweet.
Of course it is, Ms. Salinas. You purposely instigated a crowd of people with your own dog whistle brand of racism, and when they react accordingly, they're the ones who are "racist."
Classic progressivism.
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