A mom is going viral after she recorded an incident at Disneyland where she faced racist comments for speaking Spanish to her son.
Last week, Eva Ramirez posted a video on Instagram of her confronting a woman, asking her to repeat the racist comments that she made.
“You have a problem with people that speak Spanish in your country, right?” Ramirez asked as she kept pressing the woman to repeat what she previously said.
“You don’t speak Spanish in America,” the woman said. “An English-speaking country.”
Ramirez then calls the white American woman a racist, to which she responded, “I hate Mexicans, it’s true!”
The incident occurred in a restroom at Disneyland while Ramirez and her son were celebrating his birthday at the park.
“People can go about their day regardless of what language they hear one speak, but rather choose to be rude to a two-year-old and his Mother,” Ramirez wrote on social media.
According to Ramirez, the confrontation may have started due to a disagreement over which restroom stall she and her son were using.
“The bigger restroom stalls at that location are also for mothers with children and clearly have no handicap signs,” she said.
“Racism starts at home,” she added.
After the incident, Ramirez said Disneyland security opted not to ask the other women involved to leave because it was only a verbal altercation.
“A security guard told me, ‘Well, what do you want us to do about it?’” Ramirez said.
Ramirez wanted Disneyland to acknowledge the racist incident, but security only helped her enter the park after seeing the video. Inside, she said she noticed the other woman involved being escorted to an office.
“They told me that they already got her side of the story, and it felt dismissive as I tried to explain what happened,” Ramirez said. “I told them I wouldn’t stay at Disneyland, because I wouldn’t feel safe knowing that they let that other person into the theme park and didn’t do anything for me.”
Security later called Anaheim police to the park, but Ramirez claimed Disneyland employees downplayed the confrontation.
The woman accused of making the racist comments had her name shared on social media, but she either deleted or made her accounts private.
On Sunday, Protesters gathered outside an Apple Valley home where activists claimed the woman accused of racism lived.
“We were there to let her know and her neighbors know who she is,” said activist Edin Enamorado. “I do think she is a bigot, but first I would say that she is uneducated.”
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