Man Disrupts Iowa Kindergarten Concert With 'English Only' Chant

[kpete]

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According to KCCI-TV, the incident occurred Thursday at a performing arts center in Perry, a city located roughly 40 miles northwest of Des Moines.

Concertgoer Juan Jose Ordonez Deleon provided a short video of the man's outburst, which Deleon calls a "hate crime," to ThePerryNews.com.

The 12-second video shows an unidentified man being escorted out of an auditorium by security personnel, while he repeatedly chants, "USA, English only. USA, English only," and shakes his fist in the air.

The man responsible for the disruption reportedly started bellowing the chant when a translator began repeating the event host's opening remarks in Spanish.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/27/english-only-chant_n_7151436.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000048

[Turbineguy]

1. Another victory

for Fox News.

[stone space]

2. Iowa's English Only law in action. (nt)

[ck4829]

3. Kind of ironic that these nationalists want us to only use the language that shares it's name

With A) another country and B) the country we stopped being a colony of.

Of course, this guy couldn't tell what irony was even if the same person who could successfully explain it to those kindergartners tried to explain it to him as well.

[sarge43]

9. More irony

USA=all three letters from Latin's alphabet.

United=from the Latin, unus, one

States=from the Latin, status, position

America=variation on an Italian map maker's first name

[mountain grammy]

4. Ugly American.

[CoffeeCat]

5. I live near this town...

…and 50 percents of the kids who attend this elementary school, are Hispanic.

That was the reason that the translator.

These hateful, ignorant fools needs to just stay home. Sit inside and fill your empty brain with Fox News, for all we care. To go out in public and disrupt and ruin a KINDERGARTEN concern, for an entire room of people--is selfish and disgusting.

I'm sure all of the 5 year olds on the stage were impressed this chuckle nut.

He was booed out of the room-and escorted out of the building.

[rurallib]

6. perry is one of many meat packing towns in Iowa where low skilled / wage workers

were brought in to bust the unions. Often these were Latinos. The Latinos settled in the towns, married, had children and also helped their relatives to come to the US. This has of course increased as NAFTA fucked over Mexico also.

So once more from the greed of the corporation, the small towns are left with a major social problem to solve. One solution is like the jackass above and blame those who were used as pawns.

Fortunately, Perry and other similar towns are somewhat more enlightened but the redneck element really creates strife. Many towns have created all sorts of ESL programs and even dual language programs in the schools.

Oddly enough up to a few years ago we had a group of German speaking towns in Iowa and no one said anything about them.

[progressoid]

11. Yep. German was spoken regularly when I was growing up.

I worked in a grocery store and heard it all the time.

[gregcrawford]

7. What an asshole...

... It's been my experience that most of these people can barely speak English themselves ("... ain't got no..., supposably... well, you get the picture). And large portions of the country spoke Spanish long before English speakers showed up. The sad part is, you cannot reason with such people; I've tried. Their immediate reaction to even the calm suggestion that there might be another way to look at something is to get belligerent, screeching obscenities and inflammatory Pox news buzz-phrases. And this is in my own family! It gets old in a hurry.

[blackspade]

8. What a tool.

[roody]

10. I bet he's a lot of fun.

[AtomicKitten]

12. Asshole.

[barbtries]

13. someone doesn't want to give up the guy's name

isn't that sweet. they don't want to be openly associated with the private hate that most of them probably share. this is your conservative world, children.