‘Get off the stage!’ Crowd yells at commencement speaker after she uses Spanish, mentions Trump

[Purveyor]

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.”

Salinas gave the keynote address to the entire university Sunday morning, was presented with an honorary doctorate, and spoke some words in Spanish to the parents of graduates. The student body is 40 percent Hispanic, and she felt the speech was well-received; several students thanked her afterward for addressing their parents in their native language. University leaders had encouraged her to say a few words in Spanish, she said; the school is a national leader in the number of Hispanic graduates it produces.

But when she spoke to the College of Communications in a separate ceremony later that morning, the reaction seemed quite different.

Denise De La Cruz, a graduating senior who wrote about it for the OC Weekly described it this way:

Salinas’ speech was well-received until it became a little too Latino-centric for some and blatantly anti-Trump. The Univision broadcaster began specifically congratulating Latino journalism graduates for what seemed like a large chunk of her speech. She then began speaking in Spanish … This left non-journalism grads and non-Latinos/non-Spanish speakers feeling excluded. Parents in the audience and even students in the ceremony began demanding Salinas switch to a more inclusive tone by shouting phrases such as, “What about us?!”

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[jonno99]

1. Meh - Not much a a surprise. But really, one should know better than to talk politics

at a commencement address. If the speaker had been bad-mouthing Bernie or Hillary, I imagine they would have received some boos as well...

[Glassunion]

2. Damn...

My wife recently received her degree. The demographics of the undergrads almost matches exactly the population. The commencement speech was given by a young, and amazing woman. She has accomplished more in the 4 years she attended, than I have in my whole 40 years on this planet.

In her speech, that was delivered in very broken English (she was a foreign student from Africa), she got quite a few digs in. Trump, M$M, racists, etc... She delivered them with such class though. Took forever for the applause to stop when she finished with a lovely nod of affection to her mom delivered in her native French.

Needless to say, she had this manly-man blubbering quite a bit... Had to put my sunglasses on, in spite of the fact that I agree 100% with Larry David, that there are only two types of people that wear sunglasses indoors... Blind people and assholes.

[world wide wally]

3. Just a taste of what this country is turning into

And it ain't pretty