LA GRANGE PARK, IL – Nicholas Fuentes, the nationally known La Grange Park resident who promotes racism, points to his parents as sharing his hatred of African Americans.
A couple of weeks ago, Patch reported how Fuentes had his mother, Lauren Fuentes, on his podcast last December.
She suggested in vague terms that she knew the “flavor” of those responsible for the shooting at the Oakbrook Center Mall. That was before the police made any arrests.
In response, Fuentes, who was student body president of Lyons Township High School before graduating in 2016, said his mother was “calling out blacks.”
“Where do I get it?” he said, laughing.
His mother laughed, too, joking, “I have no idea. You get it from your dad.”
Maybe that’s right.
In another episode of his podcast, Fuentes said his father, Bill Fuentes, would not take his family to certain restaurants because he believed they were associated with African Americans.
“We would be deciding where to go to eat. What are we going to get for dinner tonight? It was a running joke. Me and my sister would say Applebee’s, and my dad would say we will never eat at Applebee’s,” Fuentes said.
“Not in a million years should you be caught dead,” Fuentes said about Applebee’s. “Go to a different restaurant, a local restaurant. No Applebee’s. No Red Lobster. That is commonly known as black fare.”
Fuentes also shared another story about his family and restaurants.
“Before me and my sister were born, my family had a saying about Olive Garden that contains the N-word that we’re not allowed to say, that my parents wouldn’t say around me and my sister about Olive Garden’s relationship with black people. It contains a bad word. It contains a naughty word, so I’m not going to repeat it here. We don’t eat there.”
Bill Fuentes, who works for a Roselle company, did not return a message for comment at his work Thursday morning.
Nicholas Fuentes gained national attention last month when he and rapper Kanye West, now known as Ye, met with President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
In a podcast last year, Fuentes said Trump was “awesome” because he was racist and sexist. But he lamented Trump was not antisemitic. Ye has also made antisemitic comments.
