"Xenophobia as a political strategy is the lowest you can go in search of political power." Trump just doesn't care.

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COMMENTS: 
*  Thanks Ricky! You are right on the mark. Xenophobia is the trademark of Trump and his supporters
*  Dear Ricky, a fearful white minority will always need to find a group to attack. Whether it's African Americans, Latinos, Muslims or even other whites who believe different than they do. Just like Hitler put his radar on Jews. The Trump followers have set their sites on decimating Hispanics by putting them all in a corral and calling them "illegals." Maybe this is a way to unite the growing Latino population to stand up for themselves and fight against the white nationalism that has been brewing since 2008 when a black man entered "their" white house and changed the face of American.
*  You can tell from the ugly comments about Ricky that Trumps supporters are indeed xenophobic
*  Amen. Ricky Martin is a lot more eloquent than I thought.
*  ... Only uninformed bullies and angry people like Trump! They name call and just yell louder thinking that makes them smarter when all it does is show their lack of insightful thinking that doesn't reach past their nose!
*   yes he is a bully and I just do not understand how people can think he is so great. All he does is call people names and has not given any plan on what he would do once in office. All he says is "Trust Me", well when people tell me that it scares me.
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Read Ricky Martin's Blistering Op-Ed About Donald Trump
By Angie Romero, August 26, 2015

Latin superstar Ricky Martin has put Donald Trump on blast. But rather than sticking to 140 characters, Martin went above and beyond by writing an op-ed for Univision following the presidential candidate’s very public squabble with the network’s news anchor Jorge Ramos at a campaign press event in Iowa Aug. 25.

The following is a translation of Martin’s Spanish-language op-ed: 

“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?

From the beginning his intention was transparent: basically tell barbarities and lies to remain relevant in the public opinion, for votes or simply to stay on the media’s radar.

Yesterday’s 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.

Jorge Ramos was doing HIS JOB as a journalist at a press conference in which he appeared freely and democratically, representing one of the most important Latin television networks in the world and with the same right to freely exercise his profession as all other journalists.

But this new character in American politics verbally attacks him and ejects him from the press conference.

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.

Enough is enough!

If we are united for some things we should be united for others. We have already shown the United States who we are and we cannot allow this behavior.

We have to defeat the power that Trump pretends to have over Latinos, anchored in low rhetoric and xenophobic speech, 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. Let’s demand respect for those first generations of Latinos who came to the United States and opened a path for us. We have fought for every right that we have today.

Xenophobia as a political strategy is the lowest you can go in search of political power.

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.” 
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