Kindergarteners don’t know about bigotry until some bigot shows them
by digby
This is the kind of inappropriate political statement that can turn people against you:
An Iowa kindergarten concert was rudely interrupted after an audience member suddenly stood up and started chanting: “USA, English only.”
The Perry Elementary School children were being introduced to the crowd at the Perry Performing Arts Center on Thursday, and the remarks were translated into Spanish, reported KCCI. That bilingual interpretation set off the verbal attack.
Dramatic cellphone footage showed the man chanting the phrase as he was escorted out of the venue in Perry, which has a large Latino population.
Children and proud relatives who’d been looking forward to watching the recital were left stunned by the shocking incident.
“Nothing — I’ve never heard anything like that and it just hurt me really bad,” Sara Benedict, whose son was in the concert, told KCCI.
The video of the incident shows the appalled audience turning around and booing. I would guess that a few of them might even be people who share some political beliefs with this man. But bringing his xenophobic ideology to a kindergarten concert where little tiny kids are on stage singing together is ugly. Any decent person can see it’s wrong to degrade the pure and innocent fellowship of little children.
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