Joseph Zuniga is a politically outspoken black lives matter activist from Webster.
Coincidentally he was the victim of a racially motivated verbal attack while ordering food at Dresser Hill Ice Cream and Seafood in Charlton, after a woman in a Trump mask and her male companion told him to leave the country for speaking Spanish in public.
No video of course, but it was still shared over 100 times and came to my attention. Nevertheless, I’m sure this definitely happened, and the political activist didn’t just decide to smear these people on Facebook because he hates Donald Trump. No way.
I thought the name Joseph Zuniga rang a bell so I decided to give him a quick Google, and as it turns out we blogged him 5 years ago after he was fired from his job as a Southbridge High School Teacher for sending a male student noodz.
Southbridge Police said Zuniga, who is also listed as Joseph Zuniga-Santos, became Facebook friends with the student when the student was still 16. Zuniga had sent nude pictures to the student in 2014, but the student never responded to the messages, police said. Authorities said Zuniga, who was still at a teacher at the school, then sent more nude pictures to the student in August. The pictures were again sent through Facebook. The pictures contained nude images of Zuniga from the waist down. Some of the pictures included the teacher’s face, police said.
A year later he ended up getting probation and went on with his life like he’s not a deviant who preys upon children. As you can see on his Facebook page he’s constantly virtue signaling about how he’s on the right side of history, except for that time he sent a child pictures of his genitals. Besides that he’s a swell guy.
He’s gone on to meet with presidential candidates.
Is good friends with Worcester City Councilor Reverend Sarai “Ti-Ti” Ho Rivera.
And he also appears to have a young boy of his own. What could possibly go wrong there?
In the least shocking turn of events ever he also had a similar incident with a Trump supporter at Walmart in 2018 because he chose to wear a provocative shirt out, which he posted about on Facebook.
And did I mention that in 2011, while still a student at Bartlett High School, the
Telegram wrote a sob story (after he contacted them) about how he was suspended for smearing one of his teachers as a racist on Facebook? Evidently he was upset because she wouldn’t exempt him from the final exam, because he’s special like that.
Joseph G. Zuniga Santos, a 12th-grader at Bartlett Junior/Senior High School, said he was suspended from school yesterday and today, the last two days of classes for seniors, for posting on his Facebook page that racists should not be teaching Spanish. Mr. Zuniga Santos, 18, said in an interview that his class is taught by Susan Sabaj, a nonnative Spanish speaker with whom he has difficulty since transferring into the school in October. Mr. Zuniga Santos is Puerto Rican. Mr. Zuniga Santos said he posted the remark Monday and had not removed it because if he did, it would imply he didn’t believe what he wrote.
“I don’t have any regrets,” he said. Mr. Zuniga Santos is fluent in Spanish but is taking the accelerated class because he plans to become a Spanish teacher in college. He is bound for the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, where he will study secondary education with a specialty in Spanish. He adds that it’s hard to keep up with writing enunciation if you don’t keep at it. Mr. Zuniga Santos said he received a veterinary assistant’s certification from Worcester Technical High School, where he studied two years, and attended Springfield High School of Science and Technology before moving to Webster. He said he was earning straight A’s in Worcester and Springfield but not in Webster.
Mr. Zuniga Santos said his issues with his Spanish teacher came to a head when he asked to be exempted from her final exam. Mr. Zuniga Santos took advanced placement Spanish at his former school and had already taken the AP exam. AP Spanish is not offered at Bartlett.
“She laughed in my face and said no and shut the door on me.”
That’s when Mr. Zuniga Santos went home and took to Facebook, he said. He said he believes a fellow student showed the message to the administration. He was called in for a meeting with the principal and a guidance counselor.
Mr. Zuniga Santos said he also brought his grandparents to the meeting.
“I asked if my Spanish teacher could be present, because all they were doing was accusing me, and it’s not fair that they’re sitting there accusing me and defending the teacher and we can’t hear both sides of the story.”
Mr. Zuniga Santos said he was told the teacher wouldn’t attend the meeting because she was essentially done with him. Mr. Zuniga Santos said part of a teacher’s job is to be able to communicate with the students. Asked why he would reach out to the newspaper with his high school career essentially behind him, Mr. Zuniga Santos said he was thinking of other students.
“I was the president of my gay-straight alliance in my Hispanic culture clubs at my other high schools,” he said, “and I’m just a natural-born leader. I like to help people who don’t have a voice, who can’t defend themselves, and this is just something I really see repeating in the future.”
Almost as if smearing white people and victimizing himself is just kind of his thing.
Fake hate crimes are the worst and no one should smear innocent people like this. But if you’ve ever been fired from your teaching job because you sent a child pictures of your bologna baton on Facebook, you really shouldn’t lie about a fake hate crime.
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