Racist Woman Attacks Two People For Speaking Spanish In Grocery Store, Gets What She Deserves
Ilona BoredPanda staff
A woman allegedly harassed two people for speaking Spanish in a Colorado grocery store, making the customers lose faith in humanity. One of them, however, confronted her in an attempt to restore it.
As of this article, the footage of the event has been viewed more than 1M times since it was posted to Facebook. It shows Kamira Trent shouting down Linda Dwire in a store in Rifle. As Trent and Dwire walk away from the person recording them, a store employee is seen following the two women.
Eventually, Trent called the police and the officers arrested Dwire, taking her to Garfield County Jail, and charging her with two counts of bias-motivated harassment. She was released on bond and is due back in court in November.
The conflict began when Dwire overheard two women speaking in Spanish to each other and interrupted them to ask if the women lived in the US and whether they liked it. After they said yes to both questions, Dwire told them to learn English.
One of the women who has been in the US for eight years and was accompanied at the market by her three children told BuzzFeed News that Dwire was aggressive and kept putting her hand in her face.
Trent was shopping nearby and overheard Dwire saying, “You’re in America. You’re in my country. You can’t speak Spanish here. You need to speak English if you’re going to be in America.” Trent claimed she wanted to de-escalate the situation, reminding Dwire it was a free country and that she couldn’t tell the other women how to speak. “She just got angrier and angrier. I was trying to get her away from the two women, but she wasn’t going to leave them alone,” Trent said. “What she said and the way she said it was wrong.”
But their exchange heated up and about 10 minutes later Trent called the police. The arresting officer, Carlos Cornejo, wrote that when he arrived, he heard Dwire yelling “something to the effect of ‘this is what is wrong with our country’ and ‘they should not be speaking Spanish here.'”
Dwire told the officer she was exercising her right to freedom of speech and that she found it offensive the two women were speaking Spanish because they “didn’t have the respect to speak English.”
“It has nothing to do with race. It’s a patriotic thing,” Dwire told BuzzFeed News. “When people come to my country, they need to love it enough to speak English.” She claims that she confronted people in public places about not speaking English before and believes US immigration laws should stipulate that immigrants learn English.
She added that she has received threats since the incident went viral and isn’t sure if she’ll be able to find an attorney to take up her case. Meanwhile, the internet has quickly identified Trent as a “shero,” thanking her for stepping in to defend the women.
(h/t buzzfeed)
Recently, Linda Dwire allegedly harassed two Mexican women in a grocery store for speaking Spanish
But Kamira Trent confronted her and wasn’t willing to let the bullying slide
As the conflict continued, Trent called the police
Some of it was caught on tape, too
People are taking the time to personally thank Trent for standing up for the women
And many can’t understand the harasser at all
Holy fuck, why can't people just let others be. Who is anyone hurting by speaking another language.
^^^^This!!!!^^^^ Yes! Exactly my thought!
It comes from the old English Aristocracy of egocentric thinking and superiority. Basically the idea is they don't think they should have to conform to anyone else's culture..everyone else should have to conform to their culture. And then they wonder why the Americans are hated by the vast majority of European countries.
One of the women has been in America as long as I have, which is past long enough to apply for citizenship, and was accompanied by her children! I can't believe Dwire has the nerve to do such thing in front of children!
My husband says he wants to run into one of these people that say "You can't do this in MY country" because his family can be traced back to the first settlers in Jamestown. He's going to turn to them and say.."excuse me..my family was here first and I say they can do whatever they damn well please."
Surely she should only be speaking English if she is in England? That woman is appropriating my culture and as an English person in England, with my English tongue in my English cheek I object! She needs to brush up on her culture and learn to speak her proper Native American language, and make sure it is taught in her local school too. Here in the tiny UK Welsh children learn Welsh at school....
We are now speaking English... in the cloud? A language is only a way to communicate, not a God or a possession. Use it when it's usefull.
English is the Lingua Franca because of British and American imperialism. Not because the world agreed to it.
Yuph! The reason that English was universal is just for us to have one language to converse and understand each other.
English is the world's lingua franca. (Apparently people don't know what a lingua franca is. It is any language used for commerce and other things that involve necessary communication between peoples who speak different tongues. At present, English serves that purpose. It is spoken by all air traffic controllers, in ship communication, in every stock and commodity market.) Because this was once French it was given that label but for the last 150+ years it has been English.
Well...Many Unitedstatesians put their mark on the English language by speaking and writing it poorly. So for many "English-speaking" Unitedstatesians (Mexico es los Estados Unidos tambien), that is their native language...poor English.
Decades before the United States existed writers in England, Scotland, France, Spain, Holland, and Portugal were referring to the residents of the area that would become the US as 'Americans'. At the same time people of Canada (except for the Quebecoise) were 'Canadians' and the people of Mexico were called 'Mexicans'.
As sardonic as your post is intended to be, it's worth pointing out that you English had no culture until you started "appropriating" some from others.
we have our own dialect - Yan Tan Tetherer
that is 1 2 3 when counting sheep
As some Natives already pointed out, the woman who accused them has no say in this, as long as she doesn't speak any of the real American languages. Remember, Eng-land → Engl-ish. Given the history, and the fact so many USA cities and places still carry Spanish names, they had the right to speak Spanish THE SAME as she had the right to speak English.
My brother married an American woman and they live in America. I have this real fear that when I come visit them and speak to my brother (or my husband and kids, since they can't speak English) in our own language for a moment someone will come out and attack me over it.
Don't worry it wont happen to you if you are White, Blonde, any other color than black or brown eye and Caucasian or look like one. Trust me I know. I am Murican.
@Hard 2 Guess and that makes it even sadder :(
if they hate you for speaking your own language and insults you then insult them in your language since they have no clue to what you are saying.
Yeo, she should go back to England if she wants to speak English! lol!
And German, a lot of early settlers spoke German apparently.
It was a close run thing when there was a vote year's ago if the national language in the USA was to be German or English. Imagine Donald Trump delivering his speeches in German....
My 94 year old landlord grew up in Nebraska and spoke only German until he went to middle school at age 12.
Yes. There were a hole german Settlements. Louisa May Alcott, who wrote Little Woman, lived in a community with many germans (if I remember correctly). Thats why she wrote about the Hummels in her book.
THISSSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy fuck, why can't people just let others be. Who is anyone hurting by speaking another language.
^^^^This!!!!^^^^ Yes! Exactly my thought!
It comes from the old English Aristocracy of egocentric thinking and superiority. Basically the idea is they don't think they should have to conform to anyone else's culture..everyone else should have to conform to their culture. And then they wonder why the Americans are hated by the vast majority of European countries.
One of the women has been in America as long as I have, which is past long enough to apply for citizenship, and was accompanied by her children! I can't believe Dwire has the nerve to do such thing in front of children!
My husband says he wants to run into one of these people that say "You can't do this in MY country" because his family can be traced back to the first settlers in Jamestown. He's going to turn to them and say.."excuse me..my family was here first and I say they can do whatever they damn well please."
Surely she should only be speaking English if she is in England? That woman is appropriating my culture and as an English person in England, with my English tongue in my English cheek I object! She needs to brush up on her culture and learn to speak her proper Native American language, and make sure it is taught in her local school too. Here in the tiny UK Welsh children learn Welsh at school....
We are now speaking English... in the cloud? A language is only a way to communicate, not a God or a possession. Use it when it's usefull.
English is the Lingua Franca because of British and American imperialism. Not because the world agreed to it.
Yuph! The reason that English was universal is just for us to have one language to converse and understand each other.
English is the world's lingua franca. (Apparently people don't know what a lingua franca is. It is any language used for commerce and other things that involve necessary communication between peoples who speak different tongues. At present, English serves that purpose. It is spoken by all air traffic controllers, in ship communication, in every stock and commodity market.) Because this was once French it was given that label but for the last 150+ years it has been English.
Well...Many Unitedstatesians put their mark on the English language by speaking and writing it poorly. So for many "English-speaking" Unitedstatesians (Mexico es los Estados Unidos tambien), that is their native language...poor English.
Decades before the United States existed writers in England, Scotland, France, Spain, Holland, and Portugal were referring to the residents of the area that would become the US as 'Americans'. At the same time people of Canada (except for the Quebecoise) were 'Canadians' and the people of Mexico were called 'Mexicans'.
As sardonic as your post is intended to be, it's worth pointing out that you English had no culture until you started "appropriating" some from others.
we have our own dialect - Yan Tan Tetherer
that is 1 2 3 when counting sheep
As some Natives already pointed out, the woman who accused them has no say in this, as long as she doesn't speak any of the real American languages. Remember, Eng-land → Engl-ish. Given the history, and the fact so many USA cities and places still carry Spanish names, they had the right to speak Spanish THE SAME as she had the right to speak English.
My brother married an American woman and they live in America. I have this real fear that when I come visit them and speak to my brother (or my husband and kids, since they can't speak English) in our own language for a moment someone will come out and attack me over it.
Don't worry it wont happen to you if you are White, Blonde, any other color than black or brown eye and Caucasian or look like one. Trust me I know. I am Murican.
@Hard 2 Guess and that makes it even sadder :(
if they hate you for speaking your own language and insults you then insult them in your language since they have no clue to what you are saying.
Yeo, she should go back to England if she wants to speak English! lol!
And German, a lot of early settlers spoke German apparently.
It was a close run thing when there was a vote year's ago if the national language in the USA was to be German or English. Imagine Donald Trump delivering his speeches in German....
My 94 year old landlord grew up in Nebraska and spoke only German until he went to middle school at age 12.
Yes. There were a hole german Settlements. Louisa May Alcott, who wrote Little Woman, lived in a community with many germans (if I remember correctly). Thats why she wrote about the Hummels in her book.
THISSSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!