re: Lets Talk Politics

Even if they did chant 'Spanish Only', nobody should take offense to it. As an Hispanic person who still uses Spanish at home and in business, I understand when and where the appropriate language should be used. And in a caucus, it's probably one of those times were English should be used. People like Dolores Huerta say that by doing English only, Spanish speaking people will get left out of the Democratic process. But what she fails to notice is that by having someone translate everything on stage is annoying (yes, even to me!), unproductive and time consuming for everyone involved.


Although Dolores Huerta has been a Union bully and a troll, this faux-outrage is the organizers' fault. I've been part of several events in which 35% of our audience spoke Spanish-only and 5% Vietnamese-only. What we did was put 4 translators (2 Spanish & 2 Vietnamese so they could alternate) in a room with microphones and then we used two Part 15 FM transmitters to broadcast their live translation in FM. We handed out little headsets pre-tuned at 87.9 FM for Spanish and 92.5 FM in Vietnamese to anyone who needed live translations. Everything always went on without problems and no time was wasted on stage waiting for someone to translate everything. If any of the non-english audience members had questions, we also had translators on stage that would translate the question instantly to the host to answer.

Looks like a huge fail by the Democrats and Dolores Huerta for not being proactive para su gente.

¡Ay, que pendeja!