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14. Exactly!

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Thu Oct 4, 2018, 09:34 AM

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Two People Were Being Harassed For Speaking Spanish In A Grocery Store. Then This Woman Stepped In. [View all] demmiblue Oct 2018 OP

Watched the video on Facebook Zing Zing Zingbah Oct 2018 #1

This kind of hateful racist behavior is happening more & more these days, it disgusts me! FM123 Oct 2018 #2

The result of the shitgibbon in the White House licensing it SkipG Oct 2018 #5

Exactly! FM123 Oct 2018 #14

the woman in White .... Linda Dwine was arrested for harrassing the hispanic people !! trueblue2007 Oct 2018 #59

Hope she has to pay a HUGE fine and gets in trouble for HATE CRIME. trueblue2007 Oct 2018 #60

PLEASE, let this shit happen in front of me...PLEASE. nt FromTheAshes Oct 2018 #3

HUGE SURPRISE! She's a .... CurtEastPoint Oct 2018 #4

WHAT?! demmiblue Oct 2018 #7

Love that gif! ProudLib72 Oct 2018 #41

Shocked, just shocked !! Seriously, what are these people going to do when Red Don steps down?! uponit7771 Oct 2018 #18

Sometimes that doesn't matter. Oneironaut Oct 2018 #44

How dare Spanish-speaking people "invade" Colorado SaintLouisBlues Oct 2018 #6

Plus, the women from Mexico were probably had a native background geardaddy Oct 2018 #11

Yes, the vast majority of Mexicans have Native-American ancestry, which is why most Mexicans look SaintLouisBlues Oct 2018 #13

+1, My Mexican friend brought this to my attention. Made me sit and think uponit7771 Oct 2018 #17

And yet Garfield County was completely within Mexico's borders pre 1848 ... aggiesal Oct 2018 #36

Colorado is Spanish for red. IluvPitties Oct 2018 #8

Exactly. deurbano Oct 2018 #37

really sickening bdamomma Oct 2018 #9

Which includes Latinos lunatica Oct 2018 #21

yes that's true bdamomma Oct 2018 #24

That's what being an ally looks like. WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2018 #10

Yep nt Quayblue Oct 2018 #51

That's Just the Thing... SDJay Oct 2018 #12

I was just in Quebec Canada this summer and Barcelona Spain last year ... Snake Plissken Oct 2018 #15

Welsh speakers get this a lot in Wales geardaddy Oct 2018 #16

May those Anti-Welsh people have their TVs stuck forever on S4C... mwooldri Oct 2018 #28

Thank you! geardaddy Oct 2018 #35

Speaking of the Constitution tazkcmo Oct 2018 #43

Spot on taxkcmo geardaddy Oct 2018 #47

I didn't realize Welsh speakers were being harassed in their own country, area51 Oct 2018 #46

Yep, it's been going on forever. n/t geardaddy Oct 2018 #48

My two US citizen daughters always speak German to each other, even when in the USA DFW Oct 2018 #19

Sad truth is this ignorant lady did not know what language they bonniebgood Oct 2018 #23

Exactly! mountain grammy Oct 2018 #27

That's not surprising, unfortunately. N/T DFW Oct 2018 #33

Exactly DFW geardaddy Oct 2018 #49

We need many more vids of people being good allies like this jmbar2 Oct 2018 #20

Well usually the people recording the videos are allies lunatica Oct 2018 #22

My only caution to this would be very careful where you put your hands Grammy23 Oct 2018 #25

I had a friend ask me what he should do if he saw an incident of public racism. Cracklin Charlie Oct 2018 #31

+1.Very good advice. oasis Oct 2018 #34

Not to mention it's "rifle" Colorado. Glad that lady ecstatic Oct 2018 #63

Does Dwire act that way when people speak Russian? muntrv Oct 2018 #26

Made me laugh. -nt CrispyQ Oct 2018 #40

I saw a supermarket checker get busted down to cart guy. Cracklin Charlie Oct 2018 #29

Good on that woman for speaking out about such hatred. IMPEACH_45DJT Oct 2018 #30

welcome to DU gopiscrap Oct 2018 #55

She ran the racist out of the store. Courageous moment. oasis Oct 2018 #32

Trust me lurkers, the good feeling you get from defending 'others' is a lot greater ck4829 Oct 2018 #38

This was righteous! CrispyQ Oct 2018 #39

Rifle. Western slope. Virulently red ProudLib72 Oct 2018 #42

I can't wrap my head around why anyone would get upset over two people talking to each other xor Oct 2018 #45

I like living in a place where I hear languages other than English spoken every day. hunter Oct 2018 #50

And she's been arrested! shanti Oct 2018 #52

That is fantastic news! Thank you for the update, my dear shanti! CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2018 #56

Anytime, Peggy! shanti Oct 2018 #58

"This state wouldn't even be called 'Colorado' if it had any Spanish in it's past!" struggle4progress Oct 2018 #53

thank you thank you LADY IN PURPLE!! The woman wearing white blouse should be ashamed of herself. trueblue2007 Oct 2018 #54

See post #52, my dear trueblue2007! CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2018 #57

Making an ass of herself in the toy department, to boot. KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2018 #61

I grew up in western PA ... left-of-center2012 Oct 2018 #62

My family spoke Lithuanian EVERY-where eleny Oct 2018 #64

Well done Kamira Trent! smirkymonkey Oct 2018 #65

Having problems with the link. RickHworth Oct 2018 #66

"But she assured us that she's not racist" gay texan Oct 2018 #67

I hear people speaking other languages in stores all the time in my neck-of-the-woods Rhiannon12866 Oct 2018 #68

Its a wonderful thing to be able to speak another language onetexan Oct 2018 #69

I don't understand the bigotry towards immigrants, either. Rhiannon12866 Oct 2018 #70