Ricky Martin Addresses Donald Trump In Op-Ed: 'Enough Is Enough!'

Donald Trump’s comments about Latinos in the U.S. during his presidential candidacy speech have created a lot of controversy in the past couple of months. Whether Trump is using his “bluntness” as a political strategy, or because that is just the way he is and thinks, many Latinos, including celebrities, have expressed their disappointment and disgust towards the real estate tycoon’s statements.

When the presidential hopeful announced his “Immigration Plan” last week, a new ordeal began. Mexican journalist Jorge Ramos immediately expressed his concern about the “empty promises” Trump was making to America: ““What he is trying to sell to the American public simply doesn’t work,” he said. “How is he going to deport 11 million people? By bus, by plane? Is he going to bring the army to do that?”

On Tuesday, Ramos showed up at a press conference in Dubuque, Iowa, where the presidential candidate was not expecting him: “Sit down, you weren’t called. Go back to Univision,” he said as the reporter tried to ask a question. When he didn't back down after the humiliating comments, Trump asked one of his security guys to escort him out of the room.

The incident has stirred the pot even more, even among celebrities that previously refused to address the issue such as Wisin and Ricky Martin, who shared the following op-ed via Twitter:

“The fact that an individual like Donald Trump, a candidate for the presidency of the United States for the Republican party, has the audacity to continue to gratuitously harass the Latin community makes my blood boil.

When did this character assume he could make comments that are racist, absurd, and above all incoherent and ignorant about us Latinos?

From the beginning his intention was transparent: basically tell barbarities and lies to remain relevant in the public opinion, for votes or simply to stay on the media’s radar.

Yesterday’s episode against journalist Jorge Ramos, one of the most beloved and respected Latinos in world media, has gotten to the point of enough is enough.

Jorge Ramos was doing HIS JOB as a journalist at a press conference in which he appeared freely and democratically, representing one of the most important Latin television networks in the world and with the same right to freely exercise his profession as all other journalists.

But this new character in American politics verbally attacks him and ejects him from the press conference.

This action from Trump doesn’t surprise me, what does surprise me is that as Hispanics we continue to accept the aggressions and accusations of people like him who attack our dignity.

Enough is enough!

If we are united for some things we should be united for others. We have already shown the United States who we are and we cannot allow this behavior.

We have to defeat the power that Trump pretends to have over Latinos, anchored in low rhetoric and xenophobic speech, which his campaign team is convinced works for him.

Let’s show that our Latin race is to be respected, let’s not allow a political hopeful to plant his campaign in insult and humiliation. Let’s demand respect for those first generations of Latinos who came to the United States and opened a path for us. We have fought for every right that we have today.

Xenophobia as a political strategy is the lowest you can go in search of political power.

This is an issue that unites us and we need to battle it together, not just for us but for the evolution of humanity and those to come.”