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California woman goes on racist rant, calls man 'rapist' and 'animal'
California woman goes on racist rant, calls man 'rapist' and 'animal'
By: KRON4 Staff
Posted: Jun 26, 2018 04:19 PM EDT
Updated: Jun 26, 2018 04:32 PM EDT
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY (KRON) -- A video of a woman verbally attacking a Latino man and his mother for being Mexican has gone viral. In the video, a woman goes on an anti-immigrant rant using racial slurs and even sticks her middle finger in Esteban Guzman's face. Guzman, a U.S. citizen born and raised in California, says he and his mother were working in a yard in Running Springs when a woman started yelling insults toward them. She calls them "rapists" and "animals."
"Why do you hate us," Guzman asks the woman.
"Because you're Mexicans," she replies in the video. The woman also said, "even the President of the United States says you're a rapist."
Guzman talked with CNN after the video went viral saying he won't let the woman deter him from standing up for himself, his mother and the people that "don't have a voice in this country. "
http://www.wric.com/news/california-woman-goes-on-racist-rant-calls-man-rapist-and-animal-/1265563635
By: KRON4 Staff
Posted: Jun 26, 2018 04:19 PM EDT
Updated: Jun 26, 2018 04:32 PM EDT
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY (KRON) -- A video of a woman verbally attacking a Latino man and his mother for being Mexican has gone viral. In the video, a woman goes on an anti-immigrant rant using racial slurs and even sticks her middle finger in Esteban Guzman's face. Guzman, a U.S. citizen born and raised in California, says he and his mother were working in a yard in Running Springs when a woman started yelling insults toward them. She calls them "rapists" and "animals."
"Why do you hate us," Guzman asks the woman.
"Because you're Mexicans," she replies in the video. The woman also said, "even the President of the United States says you're a rapist."
Guzman talked with CNN after the video went viral saying he won't let the woman deter him from standing up for himself, his mother and the people that "don't have a voice in this country. "
http://www.wric.com/news/california-woman-goes-on-racist-rant-calls-man-rapist-and-animal-/1265563635
Video of incident in tweet below -
Link to tweet
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therealkenidrawoods
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@KenidraRWoods_
A friend, Esteban Guzman sent me this video of a racist white woman harassing him while out working with his mom.
"Why do you hate us?"
"Because you're Mexicans."
"We are honest people right here!"
"Haha..yeah.. rapists & animals."
Trump supporters always reveal themselves 1/2
3:05 AM - Jun 25, 2018
(heard on Joe Madison about 10 minutes ago)
EDIT - found the video on youtube posted by The Guardian -
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And when you complain they say "Well you can't 'legislate civility' or 'you are being politically correct'". Yet they also tell you that you are "not allowed" to do this. Just. Because. 
per this -
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Guzman worked five weekdays as a systems administrator outside Los Angeles, he said, then commuted every weekend to Lake Arrowhead to help with the family cleaning, landscaping and construction business around the mountainous area.
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His mother actually is from Mexico, he said. She is still a Mexican citizen, 27 years after giving birth to him in Southern California. “My mom is illegal,” Guzman told The Post. “She doesn’t have a work permit. She doesn’t have any documentation.”
He declined to give her name but said she had spent the past three decades in the United States, raising him and his brother as a single parent, cleaning other people’s properties so that he could go to college — California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, class of 2017, he said. And now, in 2018, a woman Guzman had never seen before was telling his mother to go back to Mexico — over the issue of pine needles.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/06/26/rapist-she-yelled-at-a-hispanic-man-shes-quoting-the-president-he-thought/?utm_term=.2d1d7f67c44d
Guzman worked five weekdays as a systems administrator outside Los Angeles, he said, then commuted every weekend to Lake Arrowhead to help with the family cleaning, landscaping and construction business around the mountainous area.
<...>
His mother actually is from Mexico, he said. She is still a Mexican citizen, 27 years after giving birth to him in Southern California. “My mom is illegal,” Guzman told The Post. “She doesn’t have a work permit. She doesn’t have any documentation.”
He declined to give her name but said she had spent the past three decades in the United States, raising him and his brother as a single parent, cleaning other people’s properties so that he could go to college — California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, class of 2017, he said. And now, in 2018, a woman Guzman had never seen before was telling his mother to go back to Mexico — over the issue of pine needles.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/06/26/rapist-she-yelled-at-a-hispanic-man-shes-quoting-the-president-he-thought/?utm_term=.2d1d7f67c44d
I.e., his mother came here for a better life and had a child who ultimately went to college and had a steady job in a STEM field, but who also continued to do side work to help the family. The very thing they claim people are "supposed to do". Yet apparently that doesn't apply to POC.
This is Trump's America, and this is how we're perceived around the world-- as the biggest, dumbest, meanest assholes on the planet. Congratulations, Trumputniks, you've done a heckuva job in destroying our democracy. Good thing we're pals with Kim and Pootie now, so not only do we have good friends, we now have **the best** crooks on our team! MAGA!
Man, if I were younger, I'd be getting the hell outta Dodge right now, heading to Vancouver or Sydney or Christchurch. But I'll be 70 next year, and I'm so enraged at Republicans and the far-right, that what I want to really say is unprintable.
But I'll stick it out and give these right-wing bastards hell every day, until the last day, which I hope isn't for a long while yet.
it has been. Its just now these wypipo can openly practice their hate, bigotry, racism and prejudice openly. Glad there are camera phones now. God this is so fucking hateful.
Well I promise an eye for an eye and a insult for an insult. PROMISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1844 here in Philly - Nativist riot against Irish Catholics -
On May 3, 1844, members of a political organization called the American Republican Party — known as “nativists” because they favored the rights of those born here over those of immigrants — held a public rally in Kensington, where many of the Irish Catholics had settled. Local residents took umbrage and attacked the platform where the nativists were speechifying. The nativists fled, but three days later they returned — thousands of them. Fights, predictably, broke out between them and the Irish Catholics. Somebody started shooting from the windows of buildings. Several nativists were killed, inciting their mob to attack the Seminary of the Sisters of Charity and a few local homes. Two more nativists died, and dozens of people were injured.
Read more at https://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/12/17/philadelphia-anti-catholic-riots-1844/#HQLdhzf41UL0r8yT.99
Read more at https://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/12/17/philadelphia-anti-catholic-riots-1844/#HQLdhzf41UL0r8yT.99
This was before the "Civil War/Lincoln Republican Party". It was the "Republican Party" that we are seeing today, a few decades before the Civil War.
But since they don't teach this in the primary or secondary schools (although it would be part of college history courses), all of this history is forgotten and amnesia sets in. The culmination of the anti-Catholic sentiment shown in the above lead to one of the reasons why JFK and RFK were assassinated, yet you have a generation of of turncoats like the Irish Catholic Pat Buchanan who have become "Nativist".
Of course at one time, what is now Texas WAS a part of Mexico, so when the U.S. won a war and took over that land right around the same time as Irish were being attacked up here (1840s), it's ludicrous for people to keep wondering why "all those Mexicans" are there.
POC are always "lectured".
