Posted on 08/20/2016 3:31:52 AM PDT by 5150 FREEPER
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- An 18-year-old Charlotte, N.C., college student who was ejected from Thursday's Donald Trump rally says he went from avid backer to disillusioned opponent after Trump's security accused him of being a known protester.
Jake Anantha, who registered as a Republican and cast his first primary vote for Trump, was wearing a Trump shirt when police removed him from the Charlotte Convention Center before the rally began. He and his father, Ramesh Anantha, say they believe he was profiled because of his dark skin. "It's unbelievably ironic," said Ramesh Anantha, whose parents emigrated from India. He says his son, as a young person of color appearing at a rally where the Republican presidential nominee touted his support for people of color, "should have been looked at as a perfect Trump supporter. He should have been somebody they're putting up on stage."
Yeah so is George Will and Jeb Bush
Yeah, it’s just plain confusing at times. Native American is a term used to identify pre-Columbus indians like the Apache, Sioux or the Fukawe. Indian American might be fuzzy because it could mean pre-Columbian or it could mean India Americans. I suggest, helpfully, that to properly identify this group that they be referred to as India Indian Americans. That should help.
“By that logic, we are members of the KKK”
I’m not a democrat, they founded the KKK, interesting that apparently your a democrat and Islam promoter - don’t use we, I am not part of your democrat party or religion of satan.
No one here called this young man an Arab. You don’t know what’s in his heart...neither do I.
You claim to know his father....what does his father say? You cannot tell me that it is typical Indian behavior to run to the press with a grievance. To be anti Trump because security removed him is nuts. I don’t believe he voted trump in the primary. What was on the white shirt under his trump shirt?
Looks like he’s got a lapel mic sticking out of his two t-shirts.
Did he come with the mic or was it stuck on him by the media?
Would be interesting to know what the white t-shirt says. Or is he just wearing an undershirt under a t-shirt. I had a college roommate who did that so it’s possible.
Thanks for that link.
Because one is Muslim does not mean Arab....hence one could be white and Muslim.....white for census and voting purposes is a race as are various other designations....Arab is not a race any more than Spanish or Mexican or Indian is a race
Tell us what his father said about all tjis
Oh Lordy you have gone off the rails.
Why not just tell us that you will ask his dad some of those questions? You don’t know what this kid believes just because you know his dad.
You have tremendous faith in your firneds. As in, belief in the absence of evidence.
They are pictured together. The news accounts from a less biased source indicate that they were acting in concert. She is a known disrupter.
But you, despite having seen none of the actual event, say it’s all lies because you have faith.
The pattern of behavior tells me he’s a duck - quack, walk and all. Particularly the outlets he is feeding his story into.
And you are fueling the discrimination story with no evidence.
How liberal of you.
You have given no evidence
What you have said is you know the dad.
Then ask dad some questions!
Where does Jake go to school ? What is his major? What ethnicity is jakes mother?
It is not the picture . It is the article that makes the claim
Why won’t you answer a direct question?
No doubt a plant to stir up trouble. I don’t think anybody is getting ejected from rallies unless they start protesting. Or they get spotted as a known protester which this guy may actually be.
He doesn’t have anything about Hillary and several of his friends support Trump.
The Washington Examiner is in the same category, it comes from the people at National Review.
Yeah, looks like an attempt to be Khan II at this point.
The picture doesn’t look like an 18 yr old kid
Again anyone who can throw down the race card that quick ain’t a conservative.
Can you give a link to his face book page? The one I saw hasn’t had a recent post
Interesting. Maybe he just got caught up in the ejection of Rose, but it’s curious that he’s now out spreading the word that he was kicked out.
Maybe a young man upset at being treated unjustly, or maybe a young man who has different political beliefs than his parents.
Hard to tell on the info presented so far.
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