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Latinx middle schooler speaks out about life after her classmates’ pro-Trump harassment went viral
Fusion ^ | December 28, 2016 | Rafi Schwartz

Posted on 12/28/2016 3:14:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

You may not recognize Josie Ramon’s face or even her name, but if you’ve been following the wave of anti-Latinx harassment that’s accompanied Donald Trump’s political rise, there’s a good chance you’ve caught a glimpse of what the Michigan tween’s life was like in the days following the 2016 Presidential election.

Ramon, who is 12, was a student at Royal Oaks Middle School outside of Detroit during the final months of the presidential race. On November 9, just one day after Donald Trump was elected president, Ramon was sitting in the lunchroom at school when a group of students began chanting one of Trump’s oft-repeated campaign slogans: “Build the wall.”

Ramon, a seventh grader, pulled out her phone and began filming the scene, later sharing the footage with her mother, who in turn shared it with another student’s parent. That parent uploaded the short clip to Facebook, where it quickly went viral.

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But for Ramon, the video’s viral reach didn’t solve the proliferation of Trump-inspired harassment—in many ways, it only made things worse. In a new interview with CNN, Ramon described how she was castigated and ostracized by her peers for having filmed their bad behavior.

“People would see me in the hallways and turn around and walk the other way,” she recalled to CNN. “I felt like an animal.”

According to Ramon, several of her classmates’ families even called for her expulsion for shooting the incriminating video in the first place. The atmosphere at school turned so toxic that, despite efforts by the school to address the incident and its impact on the student body, Ramon withdrew from Royal Oak and enrolled in public school instead.

Nevertheless, Ramon told CNN she has no regrets.

“If I had to go through this again to help everybody else who’s Mexican-American, I would do it a thousand million bajillion more times,” she said.

You can watch the full CNN interview with Ramon below:

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; Politics
KEYWORDS: doublestandard; fakenews; immigration; michigan; socialistnetworking; viralvideo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yep. Play the videos of molested American children and the hundreds of Americans killed by drunk illegals right behind it.


41 posted on 12/28/2016 4:26:47 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: a fool in paradise

Ramon is her last name. Her first name is Josie. Probably people here are being thrown by the PC baloney designation “latinx” which makes you assume it’s a tranny or something.


42 posted on 12/28/2016 4:29:20 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
According to Ramon, several of her classmates’ families even called for her expulsion for shooting the incriminating video in the first place.

The atmosphere at school turned so toxic that, despite efforts by the school to address the incident and its impact on the student body, Ramon withdrew from Royal Oak and enrolled in public school instead.

ROTFLOL!!

Imagine that, ordinary Americans using a political tactic everyone knows is reserved for only the Protected, Entitled, Privileged Anti American Xenocentric Agitators, ...how dare they?

43 posted on 12/28/2016 4:29:29 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Genoa
What’s a Latinx?

A female one of these:


44 posted on 12/28/2016 4:35:19 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

X-lax Latinx!


45 posted on 12/28/2016 5:02:49 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Jim Robinson
If this story is true, then I think that it really is a hate crime. My heart goes out to this child. Imagine being in a room and being singled out for your heritage or assumed status.

It's just wrong on so many levels and the children who did this to her should be punished forthrightly. And quite frankly, many of the responses to this on FR give us a bad reputation of being unjust.

I don't think that Trump would approve of this kind of bullying.

46 posted on 12/28/2016 5:13:08 PM PST by Concentrate (ex-texan was right. And Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election.)
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To: Concentrate; Jim Robinson

“Build that wall” is a hate crime and harassment?


47 posted on 12/28/2016 5:35:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: rfp1234

How about “LatinXX” and “LatinXY”?


48 posted on 12/28/2016 5:54:58 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: ConjunctionJunction
I don't know what the excitement is all about...
If she weren't a child I would suggest the perfect name for her.
49 posted on 12/28/2016 5:56:05 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: a fool in paradise; fieldmarshaldj; SunkenCiv; cripplecreek; madison10; Hot Tabasco; jenk; ml/nj; ..
He is a she.They say Ramon is a woman. Not Ramona. Not even RamonX.

Ramon is the last name. This is a 12 year old girl.

I can see her at that age getting upset about the "build that wall" chant, but that's very typical for kids that age (and even older). It's just the kids who viewed themselves as "winners" (the ones who preferred Trump) ribbing a kid who they perceived of as being a "loser." Call it "bullying," if you will, but there's no violence here.

BTW, judging from the story, this was a private school in what we know is a nice suburb, because we are told the the girl transferred to a public school. So I'm guessing that all or most of the kids involved here come from fairly affluent families, including Ramon herself.

50 posted on 12/28/2016 6:09:23 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It is to bad this happened and much more going on with this story and this child because of her mother.

The Local Radio WJR760 Frank Beckman has had this story on his show quite a bit. Alicia Ramon the child's mother is a open borders activist as well as a local lib causes activist and it is reported/insinuated that she used her daughter to get attention for herself.

This morning a WJR760 interview said lawsuits are pending by the parents due to Alicia Ramon posting videos of minor kids and name...address on social media. (I am from this area)

51 posted on 12/28/2016 6:19:32 PM PST by defal33
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

The whole point of the liberal lunatics is to try to remove all sex references. Change the language to change the culture. They will fail miserably.


52 posted on 12/28/2016 6:45:34 PM PST by rfp1234 (DinosorosExtinction)
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To: Genoa

It’s one of those sex perverts using a new name.


53 posted on 12/28/2016 7:00:32 PM PST by Trillian
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here's the article I saw on that new term (that won't catch on like they want).
54 posted on 12/28/2016 7:19:33 PM PST by Trillian
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The kids and parents are all U.S. citizens born in this country. They had no reason to make this silly chant by excited Trump fan-students a “racist controversy.”
They have absolutely nothing to fear from Trump. They deserve every bit of scorn they now receive.


55 posted on 12/28/2016 7:23:11 PM PST by montag813
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; AnotherUnixGeek
"Latinx". Huh.

Since Spanish is a Romance language that "assigns" male or female gender to every noun, pronoun and adjective, it's going to take some pretty extensive surgery to make it gender-neutral.

Roughly analogous to having surgery to change every cell in your body.

56 posted on 12/28/2016 7:27:06 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (El diablo sabe mas por viejo que por diablo. *...knows more from being old than from being the devil)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; a fool in paradise; Yaelle; ExTexasRedhead; ml/nj; SunkenCiv; Hot Tabasco; jenk; ...
Correction to my post # 50:

The posted article is wrong, judging by the video that accompanied it. The incidents reported in this article took place in a PUBLIC school, and the 12-year old girl, Jessie Ramon, who was a target, transferred to a PRIVATE school. The posted article implied the opposite.

In any case, it is likely that Jessie Ramon comes from a fairly well-off background, because her family could afford a private school in a solid middle class suburban area. Kind of contradicts the usual MSM stereotype of Latino kids in poverty.

57 posted on 12/28/2016 7:43:34 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
How about “LatinXX” and “LatinXY”?

Isn't it easier to use Latina for a female and Latino for a male. I thought that was standard.

58 posted on 12/28/2016 7:46:53 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Concentrate

As depicted, the situation reeks of harassment. But CNN is not a credible source of information.


59 posted on 12/28/2016 8:16:12 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Genoa

A Mexican Minx?


60 posted on 12/28/2016 11:39:15 PM PST by arthurus
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