ABC/Fred LeeSince he announced he was running for president, Donald Trump has made public comments that have been deemed insulting to Latinos. Following Trump’s public argument with Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos on Tuesday at an Iowa press event — which led to Trump having Ramos ejected from the room — Ricky Martin has written an op-ed for Univision taking the billionaire to task for his behavior.
According to an English translation of the op-ed published by Billboard, Martin writes, “The fact that an individual like Donald Trump, a candidate for the presidency of the United States for the Republican party, has the audacity to continue to gratuitously harass the Latin community makes my blood boil. When did this character assume he could make comments that are racist, absurd, and above all incoherent and ignorant about us Latinos?”
Ricky went on to write, in part, “[The] episode against journalist Jorge Ramos, one of the most beloved and respected Latinos in world media, has gotten to the point of enough is enough…This action from Trump doesn’t surprise me, what does surprise me is that as Hispanics we continue to accept the aggressions and accusations of people like him who attack our dignity.”
He continues, “We have to defeat the power that Trump pretends to have over Latinos..which his campaign team is convinced works for him. Let’s show that our Latin race is to be respected, let’s not allow a political hopeful to plant his campaign in insult and humiliation…Xenophobia as a political strategy is the lowest you can go in search of political power.”
Ricky ends by noting, “This is an issue that unites us and we need to battle it together, not just for us but for the evolution of humanity and those to come.”
At press time, Trump had yet to respond to Ricky’s comments.
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