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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAir Force member called 'distasteful' for speaking Spanish in uniform
NBC NewsXiara Mercado was making a routine coffee stop when she was accused of disrespecting the very country she serves to protect because she spoke Spanish while in uniform.
In a Facebook post that has been shared more than 50,000 times, Mercado, an Air Force airman, describes how she was accosted by a woman at outside a Starbucks in Hawaii, where Mercado is stationed, on July 17 who took offense to her speaking Spanish during a private phone call.
You speaking another language that does not represent America and that uniform you are wearing, that's distasteful, Mercado described the unidentified woman as saying.
Mercado said she was speaking on the phone in the Starbucks, but as she was leaving the woman confronted her outside about speaking Spanish.
She wrote that she responded to the woman by saying, "I'm sorry ma'am the only distasteful thing here is that you are clueless to your discrimination, please educate your self. Have a nice day "
In a Facebook post that has been shared more than 50,000 times, Mercado, an Air Force airman, describes how she was accosted by a woman at outside a Starbucks in Hawaii, where Mercado is stationed, on July 17 who took offense to her speaking Spanish during a private phone call.
You speaking another language that does not represent America and that uniform you are wearing, that's distasteful, Mercado described the unidentified woman as saying.
Mercado said she was speaking on the phone in the Starbucks, but as she was leaving the woman confronted her outside about speaking Spanish.
She wrote that she responded to the woman by saying, "I'm sorry ma'am the only distasteful thing here is that you are clueless to your discrimination, please educate your self. Have a nice day "
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Air Force member called 'distasteful' for speaking Spanish in uniform (Original Post)
brooklynite
Aug 2019
OP
"If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it ought to be good enough for the children of Texas"
brooklynite
Aug 2019
#2
lettucebe
(2,336 posts)1. Since when is being bilingual a problem?
Only in the US of A would the ability to speak more than one language be frowned upon. This is lunacy.
I wish this country would just wake the F up, but that's impossible with the propaganda. I'm glad I'm old is about all I can say at this point
brooklynite
(93,873 posts)2. "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it ought to be good enough for the children of Texas"
-- Former Tax Gov Miriam Ferguson
Aristus
(66,096 posts)3. Ferguson was undoubtedly a fervent reader of the New American English Revised Standard
Living Reformed Traditional Bible.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)4. K&R, most of the racist think racism is the n word or hanging brown people