America Ferrera writes thank-you letter to Donald Trump for his racist views

Dear Donald,

You've said some pretty offensive things about Latino immigrants recently, and I think they're worth addressing. Because, you know, this is the United States of America, where I have a right to speak up even if I'm not a billionaire. Isn't that awesome?

Anyway, I heard what you said about the kind of people you think Latino immigrants are -- people with problems, who bring drugs, crime and rape to America. While your comments are incredibly ignorant and racist, I don't want to spend my time chastising you. I'll leave that to your business partners like Univision and NBC, who have the power to scold you where it hurts. Instead, I'm writing to say thank you!

You see, what you just did with your straight talk was send more Latino voters to the polls than several registration rallies combined! Thank you for that. Here we are pounding the pavement to get American Latinos to the polls, while your tactic proves most effective. Remarks like yours will serve brilliantly to energize Latino voters and increase turnout on election day against you and any other candidate who runs on a platform of hateful rhetoric.

Do you know why that's such a big deal, Donald? Because Latinos are the largest, youngest and fastest-growing constituency in the United States of America. That's right! You are running for President in a country where the Latino population grew by over 49 percent from 2000-2012, while the rest of the country grew by 5.8 percent. What's more, we are the future. The median age of the average Latino is 27 years old, compared to 42 years old for white Americans. In case you need a translation, that means there are a whole lot of Americans who are Latino and have the right to vote. And, we're not going anywhere.

Original Quill wrote:Truth in the message is one thing, I admit.  But it is overshadowed by the fact that the message is: I'll rape your daughters and kill your whole family.

Anyway, Donald Trump is not it it to become an elected official.  He wants the publicity.  He is following in Sarah Palin's footsteps.

Ben_Reilly wrote:Yeah, to me the way democracy was always supposed to work is that the candidates say what they really believe and what they actually intend to do and then let the people decide. I would have had a lot more respect for Mitt Romney if he'd said that half of America considers itself victims who believe the government should take care of them during a debate rather than on a hidden-camera video.

eddie wrote:He's an idiot mainly because of what he said obviously, but in some way you may have to admire the fact he gave his view and didn't care whether it lost him votes or not?

eddie wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:Yeah, to me the way democracy was always supposed to work is that the candidates say what they really believe and what they actually intend to do and then let the people decide. I would have had a lot more respect for Mitt Romney if he'd said that half of America considers itself victims who believe the government should take care of them during a debate rather than on a hidden-camera video.

There's nothing worse than a person, in a position of some power, using lies to promote themselves.