BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A latest mailer from the Pennsylvania Democratic Celebration includes a Kamala Harris endorsement from an area Hispanic radio host who has a historical past of creating wildly racist feedback.
The host can be the star of a Harris marketing campaign advert operating in Philadelphia, Allentown and Studying.
The mailer reveals Victor Martinez, proprietor of La Mega radio within the majority-Latino metropolis of Allentown, providing his assist for Harris as a candidate who “listens.”
However Martinez’s personal listeners will bear in mind his Might 2021 on-air tirade about black vacationers visiting Puerto Rico.
Talking in Spanish to his viewers on the El Relajo de la Mañana morning present, Martinez claimed a “wave of African Individuals” had descended on the island.
“Once I obtained [on] the aircraft, I assumed I used to be flying to Jamaica,” Martinez mentioned, suggesting the vacationers additionally should have thought they have been going to Jamaica or New Orleans. “The aircraft was filled with African [Americans]!”
Martinez’s rant — which reached hundreds in Pennsylvania’s Latino belt of Allentown, Studying and Hazleton — decried feminine vacationers for “performing up” in varied methods.
Based on Martinez, the ladies’s conduct included: “strolling nearly bare,” “preventing with police,” “leaping [on] the roof of automobiles,” “destroying the [hotel] rooms” and smoking marijuana and ingesting Hennessy on the street.
“[It] shouldn’t be like is an affordable trip for them,” he continued. “Then they purchase the Hennessy, put it of their purse, and on the street they begin ingesting.”
“They lease a automotive with a sunroof, and three or 4 of them out the sunroof that don’t even match,” Martinez added.
The dialog took a darker flip when Martinez’s co-host, Luis “Diamond Boy” Torres, implied black vacationers are apes.
“We ought to be thanking them for the reason that final monkey we had was Yuyo,” Torres responded to Martinez’s sunroof feedback — prompting each males to snicker loudly. (Yuyo was a chimpanzee, not a monkey, who escaped from a Puerto Rico zoo within the Eighties, turning into a folks hero and even garnering election write-in votes.)
When Torres urged the ladies partaking in unruly conduct have been “not fairly to take a look at,” Martinez responded creepily: “In the event that they seemed good, I’d [have] recorded them.”
Torres proceeded to mock the vacationers’ supposed assist for the Black Lives Matter motion, resulting in extra boisterous laughter.
“I believe they began a brand new protest known as Black Ass Issues,” Torres quipped.
As he notes within the mailer, Martinez has interviewed many Democratic candidates — together with Tim Walz throughout the vice-presidential nominee’s journey to japanese Pennsylvania final month.
Throughout their interview, Walz slammed the Trump administration’s response to Hurricane Maria in 2017 — arguing the previous prez didn’t “even acknowledge” Puerto Ricans are literally Americans.
Martinez additionally interviewed Rep. Susan Wild — a weak Home Democrat from the realm with a historical past of controversies — on his present final month.