Texas Rangers Investigating Racist Claims at Globe Life Park During Saturday's Game Against Tigers
By Parker White
Over the weekend at Globe Life Park, a Texas Rangers fan, Jessica Romero, wrote a post on Facebook about how she and her family were harassed by a man at the ballpark who was making racist claims.
As you can see in the post, the man decided to ruined their family photo, as well, by flipping them off.
“I had to hear him complain about all the illegal immigrants that were surrounding him at the game,” Romero wrote. “That he should kick little Speedy Gonzalez all the way back to Mexico for kicking his seat. That Trump needs to hurry and build the wall and send all these illegals back so they won’t be kicking his seat.”
Understandably, the family left the game in the fifth inning.
Ramon Romero, Jessica's husband, said to the Daily Morning News that he and his family have been buying ticket plans to see the Rangers for the last decade, but they were sitting in different seats because they decided to go to the game at the last minute.
“I was just in shock,” [Ramon] said. “I would have said something, but she said she was more concerned about me and the safety of our son. She said she didn’t want anything to get out of control. But it does happen. It struck me that he’s at a game being played by so many Latinos that maybe we are good enough to play for him, but not good enough to sit near him."
This wrong on so many levels. Kudos to the Rangers for looking into this and hopefully punishing this man for his horrible actions.