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Maria Elena Salinas, an anchor for Spanish language network Univision, gave the commencement address and received an honorary doctorate from California State University in Fullerton this past Sunday.
At one point, Ms. Salinas began addressing the graduates in Spanish. She had been encouraged to do so by the all-knowing university leadership in an effort to pander to the university’s 40% Latino student body. But the graduates, according to the OC Weekly, were in no mood for a bi-lingual lesson on their special day.
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?!”
That’s right. In an attempt at inclusion, Salinas excluded the majority of graduates who don’t speak Spanish. And, of course, the students of Latino descent wouldn’t have been excluded by hearing the entire speech in English in the first place. After all, they just graduated from an English-language college.RELATED: WashPost Pushes Univision Voter Registration Drive
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