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So when we think 00:01:35.890 --> 00:01:39.150 about our health system, you know, and our culture, 00:01:39.290 --> 00:01:44.590 you know, what are some of the ways that Latino 00:01:44.590 --> 00:01:48.590 communities, Mexican -American communities have 00:01:48.590 --> 00:01:52.409 created their own health care and ways to take 00:01:52.409 --> 00:01:55.500 care of themselves? What are some? When the door 00:01:55.500 --> 00:01:57.640 is shut in their face, what are some things that 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:00.680 they do? Or when they can't find the door, what 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:02.420 are some of the things that they do to take care 00:02:02.420 --> 00:02:08.360 of each other that you can share? What we do 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:12.259 is go to the meat market. The meat market is 00:02:12.259 --> 00:02:15.479 like a pharmacy. It's like a Walgreens or Walmart 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:18.840 or something like that. But the meat market, 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:22.719 you as a Latino will know where to go, and then 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:25.280 you'll find your medications there. You talk 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:27.819 to people that are providers in our country, 00:02:27.900 --> 00:02:32.500 but they're not allowed to work here. Sometimes 00:02:32.500 --> 00:02:35.300 we have no other choice but to go through the 00:02:35.300 --> 00:02:38.460 back door at the meat markets because, you know, 00:02:38.500 --> 00:02:42.240 when we get to the emergency room, we get discriminated 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:45.689 and sometimes not even. They don't see us, right? 00:02:45.930 --> 00:02:48.289 Or the Federal Qualified Health Center, you have 00:02:48.289 --> 00:02:51.169 to have your ID, you have to have an address, 00:02:51.270 --> 00:02:53.469 you have to have a lot of documentation to be 00:02:53.469 --> 00:02:56.710 seen. But when you go to the meat market, you 00:02:56.710 --> 00:03:00.349 talk to whomever you need to talk to, and we 00:03:00.349 --> 00:03:03.409 get our medication there. And I'm sure that that 00:03:03.409 --> 00:03:06.669 brings with it a lot of risks, you know, in regard 00:03:06.669 --> 00:03:09.550 to having to get your health care that way. So 00:03:09.550 --> 00:03:12.830 there probably been some things that work really 00:03:12.830 --> 00:03:16.460 well. And then some things that, you know, folks 00:03:16.460 --> 00:03:19.780 are just hoping and praying don't harm them more 00:03:19.780 --> 00:03:22.860 than help them. Is that true? That is true. That 00:03:22.860 --> 00:03:24.719 is true. And we know that when we go to a meat 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:27.560 market, we're risking our own health. But to 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:29.939 be honest with you, we prefer to go to the meat 00:03:29.939 --> 00:03:32.939 market where we know that we're going to see 00:03:32.939 --> 00:03:36.430 a smile. Yes. We might be at risk with the medication, 00:03:36.710 --> 00:03:38.610 but we're also thinking that about the white 00:03:38.610 --> 00:03:41.770 folks. We're always thinking that the white folks 00:03:41.770 --> 00:03:44.270 want to do us wrong and we don't trust them. 00:03:44.389 --> 00:03:47.250 So we trust somebody better that is from our 00:03:47.250 --> 00:03:49.800 community. And we know that they're going to 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:52.800 have better intention than the Anglo community. 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:55.020 That's what we think, right? That's why we go 00:03:55.020 --> 00:03:58.419 to the meat markets. So a lot of the times when 00:03:58.419 --> 00:04:01.280 I do my keynote speaking and I talk out there 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:03.879 in the community, the white folks are like, oh, 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:06.800 my God, she says white a whole lot. She comes 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:09.300 after us a whole lot. Yeah, I'm coming after 00:04:09.300 --> 00:04:11.520 you because you're part of that system. And that 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:13.759 part of the system that you think is working 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:17.040 well for you is not working for me. And as a 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:20.720 U .S. citizen and as a taxpayer, I have the right 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:26.259 to say exactly how I feel. Yes, yes, yes. You 00:04:26.259 --> 00:04:29.000 know, it's very similar in the Black community 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:31.019 here, in the African -American community, that 00:04:31.019 --> 00:04:34.060 there is a lot of medical mistrust. And there's 00:04:34.060 --> 00:04:38.319 documented in our history why. There's a lot 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:40.600 of mistrust. It's documented in our research, 00:04:40.740 --> 00:04:43.819 even currently, why there's a lot of mistrust 00:04:43.819 --> 00:04:47.339 in the healthcare system and that people tend 00:04:47.339 --> 00:04:52.740 to rely on, you know, a lot of home grown methodologies, 00:04:52.740 --> 00:04:56.100 a lot of tend to trust and feel more comfortable 00:04:56.100 --> 00:05:00.600 with what we call fancy term is racial concordance 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:03.259 in healthcare providers. And what that means 00:05:03.259 --> 00:05:05.660 is that you have a lot more trust, a lot more. 00:05:06.250 --> 00:05:08.389 tend to have better health outcomes when you 00:05:08.389 --> 00:05:11.709 work with, and this isn't always the case, but 00:05:11.709 --> 00:05:14.290 the tendency is that when you work with someone 00:05:14.290 --> 00:05:16.769 that looks like you and is from a similar community 00:05:16.769 --> 00:05:19.550 as you, that there's a better sense of understanding, 00:05:19.790 --> 00:05:23.029 there's more safety in communicating, there's 00:05:23.029 --> 00:05:25.810 more understanding in terms of your apprehensions, 00:05:25.810 --> 00:05:30.069 your common health issues, and so on and so forth. 00:05:30.209 --> 00:05:35.149 And so this tends to be a common strategy. that 00:05:35.149 --> 00:05:37.970 people use to survive and to remain healthy, 00:05:38.170 --> 00:05:42.689 regardless of what the national or traditional 00:05:42.689 --> 00:05:48.149 U .S. healthcare system provides. Totally agree 00:05:48.149 --> 00:05:53.649 with you. In your experience, what have been 00:05:53.649 --> 00:05:59.569 some of the most eye -opening similarities that 00:05:59.569 --> 00:06:04.620 you have seen between Latino communities, immigrant 00:06:04.620 --> 00:06:09.220 communities, and non -white communities who live 00:06:09.220 --> 00:06:11.399 here in the United States, whether that's Native 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:14.980 American peoples, indigenous peoples, or even 00:06:14.980 --> 00:06:17.420 Black or African American peoples? What have 00:06:17.420 --> 00:06:20.259 been some of the eye -opening similarities that 00:06:20.259 --> 00:06:23.019 you have seen in our cultures and experiences? 00:06:23.540 --> 00:06:27.100 You know, the discrimination. And it's amazing 00:06:27.100 --> 00:06:32.550 for me to see that Blacks are born here. And 00:06:32.550 --> 00:06:35.750 blacks have the right. But for the white folks, 00:06:35.930 --> 00:06:39.569 you're black and you're not American. That is 00:06:39.569 --> 00:06:42.389 very similar than with the Latino community. 00:06:42.670 --> 00:06:45.329 But the only difference is that as we know that 00:06:45.329 --> 00:06:48.550 we were born in our state or in our countries. 00:06:48.569 --> 00:06:51.350 Right. And that we become U .S. citizen later. 00:06:51.569 --> 00:06:54.329 But then you have some black communities here 00:06:54.329 --> 00:06:56.370 that they have been here in the United States 00:06:56.370 --> 00:06:58.370 for generations and generations and generations. 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:03.319 And people still see them as black and not Americans. 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:07.199 That was an eye opener for me because I am married 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:11.579 to a black man. And I used to tell him, I remember, 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:15.019 oh, it's easy for you. It's not as hard that 00:07:15.019 --> 00:07:18.740 it is for me because, you know, I get discriminated 00:07:18.740 --> 00:07:21.240 and all of that. And he told me, I remember he 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:25.389 told me one time, you know. I am black. I don't 00:07:25.389 --> 00:07:27.589 know where you get that information from. And 00:07:27.589 --> 00:07:29.949 I said, but you're an American. So life is a 00:07:29.949 --> 00:07:32.569 lot easier for you. You were born with a social 00:07:32.569 --> 00:07:34.850 security number that I'm fighting for. You were 00:07:34.850 --> 00:07:37.029 born with that language that I'm fighting for. 00:07:37.149 --> 00:07:39.470 You were born with that birth certificate that 00:07:39.470 --> 00:07:43.389 I'm fighting for. So for me, your life is a lot 00:07:43.389 --> 00:07:46.870 easier than me. And then he kept telling me, 00:07:46.930 --> 00:07:50.009 no, it's not the way you think it is. So we will 00:07:50.009 --> 00:07:53.720 go to a couple stores shopping and. And that's 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:56.259 when I started noticing that they will follow 00:07:56.259 --> 00:08:00.899 him more than me. And in the past, I used to 00:08:00.899 --> 00:08:04.160 see that some of the salespeople would follow 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:07.420 me, right? But now I'm with him, and I see that 00:08:07.420 --> 00:08:09.560 they're following him more than me. So probably 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:11.860 this person is thinking, okay, one Mexican, one 00:08:11.860 --> 00:08:14.800 black. Which one should I go to? Let me pick 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:17.040 and choose who I'm going to discriminate against. 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:21.079 here you know so for me that that has been the 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:23.779 similarities the similarity in the way that we 00:08:23.779 --> 00:08:28.360 get treated at our jobs that um very much inequitable 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:33.539 the pay also it's inequitable you know so i a 00:08:33.539 --> 00:08:36.279 lot of things that were very similar extremely 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:39.840 similar i'm glad you brought that up that it's 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:42.580 a journey for people right that come to this 00:08:42.580 --> 00:08:47.590 country and again have to fight against the overcoming 00:08:47.590 --> 00:08:51.929 the propaganda of what they think America is 00:08:51.929 --> 00:08:55.850 versus what it actually is. As an African -American 00:08:55.850 --> 00:08:59.149 person, as a Black person in America, I have, 00:08:59.250 --> 00:09:04.049 like I mentioned, had to overcome a lot of misunderstandings 00:09:04.049 --> 00:09:06.769 and misconceptions about the immigrant experience 00:09:06.769 --> 00:09:09.250 and about the Latino experience here in this 00:09:09.250 --> 00:09:14.610 country. But I've also been very disheartened, 00:09:14.610 --> 00:09:18.490 heartbroken, because I do tend to try to be open 00:09:18.490 --> 00:09:20.950 -hearted to people, especially of color, non 00:09:20.950 --> 00:09:23.690 -white people here in this country. And I've 00:09:23.690 --> 00:09:26.090 been brokenhearted by some of their racism against 00:09:26.090 --> 00:09:29.950 Black people and some of the ignorance that they 00:09:29.950 --> 00:09:34.009 have about our experience, our culture, our history. 00:09:34.570 --> 00:09:39.190 I recognize that, you know, everywhere that people 00:09:39.190 --> 00:09:42.519 are in this modern culture, There is some level 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:47.799 of colorism that makes people of a lighter complexion 00:09:47.799 --> 00:09:51.340 more privileged than people of a darker complexion. 00:09:51.340 --> 00:09:53.820 And that is true, not just here in the United 00:09:53.820 --> 00:09:57.580 States, but even in countries like India, in 00:09:57.580 --> 00:10:02.299 Australia, you know, you name it. Some of the 00:10:02.299 --> 00:10:06.970 challenges. racial and perception challenges 00:10:06.970 --> 00:10:10.110 and misconceptions that you believe Latinos have 00:10:10.110 --> 00:10:12.929 about Black people. And of course, I'm not expecting 00:10:12.929 --> 00:10:15.529 you to be a, you know, say it all because you 00:10:15.529 --> 00:10:17.570 know it all. I'm just from your own experience. 00:10:17.809 --> 00:10:20.409 No, no, no. And I can say it all because I have 00:10:20.409 --> 00:10:23.190 had a lot of experience. Right. And and let's 00:10:23.190 --> 00:10:26.210 just this is a podcast when I say that I was 00:10:26.210 --> 00:10:29.409 going to be truthful. Right. So, yes, in many 00:10:29.409 --> 00:10:32.230 countries, including Mexico, the light skinned 00:10:32.230 --> 00:10:36.409 people is supposedly are the rich ones. And the 00:10:36.409 --> 00:10:39.269 darker the darker you are, the less that you 00:10:39.269 --> 00:10:42.000 have opportunities in Mexico, too. That happens 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:45.539 in my country too. Now, we all have our certain 00:10:45.539 --> 00:10:49.440 biases. We all have our certain ways of looking 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:52.899 at life. And I think a lot of us are very much 00:10:52.899 --> 00:10:56.440 ignorant. I remember when I told my family that 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:59.519 I was dating a black man and they were like, 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:03.700 a who? And I said, a black man from America. 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:06.840 And they were like, oh my goodness. And this 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:11.519 was, I was already older, right? And so. My mom 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:14.220 was like, mijita, do you understand what you're 00:11:14.220 --> 00:11:18.600 doing to yourself? First of all, you're a woman, 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:21.820 and you're the type of a woman that is super 00:11:21.820 --> 00:11:24.659 rebellious here in Mexico. You think a little 00:11:24.659 --> 00:11:26.179 bit different, and now you're going to bring 00:11:26.179 --> 00:11:28.559 a man that is not part of our culture because 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:31.779 our men can marry women from other cultures. 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:36.899 That's being seen normal. But a woman needs to 00:11:36.899 --> 00:11:40.899 stay among the culture so we can keep. Our heritage, 00:11:41.139 --> 00:11:45.340 our life. So that's our responsibility, but I 00:11:45.340 --> 00:11:49.139 never care about that, right? So I started, even 00:11:49.139 --> 00:11:52.919 among my family, I never believed that discrimination 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:57.220 existed and racism, but it did. Because when 00:11:57.220 --> 00:12:00.039 I married my husband, a couple people didn't 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:01.799 want to show up for the wedding just because 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:04.899 he was black. And I seen the same thing and vice 00:12:04.899 --> 00:12:07.820 versa, you know? The Latinos have this perception 00:12:07.820 --> 00:12:13.169 that... Black are lazy. Black don't like to work. 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:18.019 Black, especially women, are always angry and 00:12:18.019 --> 00:12:20.639 with attitude. That's what the Latino community, 00:12:20.860 --> 00:12:23.399 and I'm not saying everyone in the Latino community, 00:12:23.460 --> 00:12:26.059 I'm saying the immigrants more likely are more 00:12:26.059 --> 00:12:28.700 close -minded than the Mexico -American ones. 00:12:28.899 --> 00:12:31.440 Because the Mexico -American ones have been integrated 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:34.220 to the United States, to the culture. But the 00:12:34.220 --> 00:12:36.659 immigrants were like, uh -uh, don't approach 00:12:36.659 --> 00:12:39.059 the blacks because this is all what they do. 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:41.990 Where did that information come from? I just 00:12:41.990 --> 00:12:44.610 don't know because my husband does not fit that 00:12:44.610 --> 00:12:48.710 profile, right? And vice versa, you know, when 00:12:48.710 --> 00:12:51.929 I'm hanging out around my husband's family, I 00:12:51.929 --> 00:12:55.730 can see that his grandma and his family wouldn't 00:12:55.730 --> 00:12:59.250 prefer a black woman for him just by the comments 00:12:59.250 --> 00:13:02.370 they make, just by the comments, the gaslighting 00:13:02.370 --> 00:13:04.909 comments. I know that they would have preferred 00:13:04.909 --> 00:13:07.730 that too, right? But I'm very aware of that. 00:13:07.850 --> 00:13:11.669 And they also make comments like, Like, why they 00:13:11.669 --> 00:13:16.029 don't speak English? And comments like, why is 00:13:16.029 --> 00:13:20.009 it that 20 ,000 live in one home? You know? So 00:13:20.009 --> 00:13:23.509 it goes both ways. But, you know, for the government, 00:13:23.750 --> 00:13:26.850 this is to their benefit. If you and I don't 00:13:26.850 --> 00:13:28.690 get along, if you and I don't work together, 00:13:28.929 --> 00:13:31.990 you know, more power to them and less power to 00:13:31.990 --> 00:13:34.389 us. Because in black and brown communities, we 00:13:34.389 --> 00:13:37.570 unite, honestly. Black and brown, just black 00:13:37.570 --> 00:13:39.750 and brown. Don't even count Asians. Don't even 00:13:39.750 --> 00:13:42.269 count Native Americans. You know what we will 00:13:42.269 --> 00:13:45.710 do. We will kill it, right? We will do so many 00:13:45.710 --> 00:13:49.190 good things, right? But we are so ignorant with 00:13:49.190 --> 00:13:53.549 our close minds that we can't get along. 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Thank 00:14:40.889 --> 00:14:43.789 you for your continued support and let's keep 00:14:43.789 --> 00:14:47.470 the conversation going. Good question. Good question. 00:14:47.590 --> 00:14:52.649 And the thing is, is that when we act out these 00:14:52.649 --> 00:14:57.009 attitudes, you're right. It just creates more 00:14:57.009 --> 00:15:01.440 and more division and divisiveness. I have seen 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:04.960 with my own eyes and experienced both professionally 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:10.259 and personally, multi -generationally, the discrimination 00:15:10.259 --> 00:15:16.480 that Latino communities have against Black Americans. 00:15:16.500 --> 00:15:19.919 I've seen that discrimination even against African 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:24.299 immigrants towards African Americans. And a lot 00:15:24.299 --> 00:15:28.259 of it has to do with... The fact that our history 00:15:28.259 --> 00:15:32.259 is, people don't know our history. People don't 00:15:32.259 --> 00:15:35.799 know how hard we had to work and how much we 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:39.740 sacrificed in this country. And it always feels 00:15:39.740 --> 00:15:42.620 like a slap in the face because we know that 00:15:42.620 --> 00:15:44.820 if we hadn't sacrificed so much and worked so 00:15:44.820 --> 00:15:47.820 hard and fought so hard, that a lot of immigrants 00:15:47.820 --> 00:15:50.519 of color in particular would not have been allowed 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:54.250 to be here at all. And so that feels like a major, 00:15:54.289 --> 00:15:57.350 major slap in the face when people come here 00:15:57.350 --> 00:16:00.009 and then they look down on us and they think 00:16:00.009 --> 00:16:02.490 that we're lazy. But we also know that that's 00:16:02.490 --> 00:16:04.789 a part of the propaganda. Like you said, the 00:16:04.789 --> 00:16:08.250 divide and conquer. It is an extension of the 00:16:08.250 --> 00:16:10.990 Willie Lynch theory, which if you don't know 00:16:10.990 --> 00:16:14.830 about that, that is a whole doctrine of thinking 00:16:14.830 --> 00:16:20.070 that was adopted during slave trading time about 00:16:20.070 --> 00:16:24.830 how to keep people of color, Black people, African 00:16:24.830 --> 00:16:28.710 people, enslaved people, separated based on these 00:16:28.710 --> 00:16:33.049 very superficial categories and demographic characteristics 00:16:33.049 --> 00:16:37.269 or job titles or places of work in order for 00:16:37.269 --> 00:16:40.210 them, one, to feel better than the other, to 00:16:40.210 --> 00:16:43.889 feel separate than the other, and to keep people 00:16:43.889 --> 00:16:47.210 from uniting, just like you said, because even 00:16:47.210 --> 00:16:50.659 then, especially in the South, White people knew 00:16:50.659 --> 00:16:55.539 that if Black people and even some Native peoples 00:16:55.539 --> 00:17:01.100 were to truly embrace their unified experience 00:17:01.100 --> 00:17:04.980 and their unified culture and maximize that, 00:17:05.059 --> 00:17:07.619 their strength, that they would overturn and 00:17:07.619 --> 00:17:12.279 throw out these European colonialist slaveholders, 00:17:12.460 --> 00:17:16.940 terrorists that had brought African people here 00:17:16.940 --> 00:17:20.190 and taken so much. from Native peoples, from 00:17:20.190 --> 00:17:23.789 Mexican peoples, and so on. And so this continues 00:17:23.789 --> 00:17:27.970 to this day. And like you said, it's to our detriment, 00:17:27.990 --> 00:17:31.849 and we're feeling it right now. So let's talk 00:17:31.849 --> 00:17:37.450 a little bit about some of the political rhetoric 00:17:37.450 --> 00:17:41.029 that has been circulating, especially during 00:17:41.029 --> 00:17:45.390 election time, and from this 45th, who's soon 00:17:45.390 --> 00:17:50.259 to be 47th president. that he stood up 10 toes 00:17:50.259 --> 00:17:55.059 down and said that, you know, Latinos, immigrants, 00:17:55.420 --> 00:17:57.720 Mexicans, South Americans, Central Americans 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:00.500 were coming here and taking all the good Black 00:18:00.500 --> 00:18:05.180 jobs, right? And pitting us together. How did 00:18:05.180 --> 00:18:07.519 that resonate? What did that feel like amongst 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:11.539 Latinos and specifically Latino voters, like 00:18:11.539 --> 00:18:13.680 amongst the people that you work with and engage 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:17.740 with? Because we have the data. And it seems 00:18:17.740 --> 00:18:22.059 that some of them agree with him, at least if 00:18:22.059 --> 00:18:24.180 not on that point, they at least agree with him 00:18:24.180 --> 00:18:26.779 enough to vote for him. How did that resonate? 00:18:26.859 --> 00:18:29.420 This whole, you know, Latinos are coming here 00:18:29.420 --> 00:18:33.299 and taking taking all the good black jobs. You 00:18:33.299 --> 00:18:35.960 know, when I heard the good black jobs, I was 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:38.940 like, I'm still kind of like, can somebody describe 00:18:38.940 --> 00:18:42.019 what are the good black jobs? Because for me, 00:18:42.019 --> 00:18:45.220 last time I checked. Everyone who has the good 00:18:45.220 --> 00:18:50.339 jobs is the white folks. So I don't know. But 00:18:50.339 --> 00:18:54.519 I will answer based on what I understand and 00:18:54.519 --> 00:18:58.559 my understanding of what just happened. You have 00:18:58.559 --> 00:19:01.599 those Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans, right? 00:19:02.619 --> 00:19:05.779 Mexico Americans, they voted for Trump. I kind 00:19:05.779 --> 00:19:09.400 of got happy and sad about this. Let me tell 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:15.039 you why. I was happy. to see then now a lot of 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:19.920 the people who have or not see us at all now 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:23.319 they know that the latino vote matters because 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:27.160 the latino vote took these men to leadership 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:32.460 right to the to the white house now maybe next 00:19:32.460 --> 00:19:36.559 election whoever is campaigning need to do a 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:40.339 little bit better job educating those latinos 00:19:40.339 --> 00:19:44.819 who are on the left side, right? It's like COVID. 00:19:44.980 --> 00:19:48.039 When COVID happened, I was very sad that a lot 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:50.839 of people were dying, but extremely happy that 00:19:50.839 --> 00:19:55.099 everyone saw the inequities and the unfairness 00:19:55.099 --> 00:19:58.839 and how the vaccine was delivered to BIPOC communities. 00:19:59.180 --> 00:20:01.839 I'm still mad to now, right? Because that's my 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:04.569 work. My work is... providing access to care 00:20:04.569 --> 00:20:07.490 for those, right? But for those Latinos who voted 00:20:07.490 --> 00:20:09.690 for him, you know, a lot of times people are 00:20:09.690 --> 00:20:11.809 coming to me and saying, hey, what's up with 00:20:11.809 --> 00:20:13.970 your people? And I said, first of all, it was 00:20:13.970 --> 00:20:18.150 the Cubans. And then it was the Puerto Ricans, 00:20:18.230 --> 00:20:20.769 which is your people. You know, they tell me 00:20:20.769 --> 00:20:23.029 it's my people. Puerto Ricans are Americans. 00:20:23.829 --> 00:20:30.250 They're not Latinos. So I'm like, know the map, 00:20:30.369 --> 00:20:33.910 know your history. Everything, my friend, before 00:20:33.910 --> 00:20:37.130 you say my people, Mexicans were on the last 00:20:37.130 --> 00:20:41.309 poll of voting for him. Also, let me tell you 00:20:41.309 --> 00:20:45.490 what happened with the Latino community. They 00:20:45.490 --> 00:20:51.690 felt also that Kamala, our vice president, or 00:20:51.690 --> 00:20:53.630 president, I want to call her president because 00:20:53.630 --> 00:20:58.230 she's a woman, so my president, you know. It 00:20:58.230 --> 00:21:01.430 targeted very much African -Americans and other 00:21:01.430 --> 00:21:04.849 communities. The Latino community felt left out. 00:21:05.269 --> 00:21:08.730 And then they started saying, let's compare them. 00:21:08.890 --> 00:21:11.589 At least Trump is going to get the economy up 00:21:11.589 --> 00:21:14.009 and running because the Latinos, the voters for 00:21:14.009 --> 00:21:16.410 him, are entrepreneurs, right? They want the 00:21:16.410 --> 00:21:18.990 economy to get better. Kamala is going to start 00:21:18.990 --> 00:21:20.789 doing a lot of things for the Black community. 00:21:21.609 --> 00:21:23.670 And that's a no -no because then the Latinos 00:21:23.670 --> 00:21:26.170 were going to be behind. I know it's an ignorant 00:21:26.170 --> 00:21:28.849 way of thinking, but that's what I heard out 00:21:28.849 --> 00:21:30.769 there in the streets. They were like, we will 00:21:30.769 --> 00:21:34.230 go 100 % more for Trump than Kamala. Kamala is 00:21:34.230 --> 00:21:36.589 going to look out for her people and not us. 00:21:39.970 --> 00:21:43.450 And then I wonder, is that truly what Kamala 00:21:43.450 --> 00:21:48.609 said? Or is that what people thought because 00:21:48.609 --> 00:21:53.619 of what she looks like? that she's a woman, that 00:21:53.619 --> 00:21:57.559 she presents as a Black woman. She embraces Black 00:21:57.559 --> 00:22:03.740 culture and she's also Indian. She is not Latino, 00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:07.400 Latina. She's not any of that. And is that what 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:10.759 she said or is that what people just assume? 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:13.220 So, I mean, today we're really talking a lot 00:22:13.220 --> 00:22:16.839 about these assumptions that drive people's behaviors 00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:21.160 and attitudes. I mean, because... Did you hear 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:24.660 that from her or do you feel like, got you? No, 00:22:24.660 --> 00:22:28.339 no, no, my friend, no. Every time she spoke with 00:22:28.339 --> 00:22:35.680 elegance, fierce, I never saw that in my community. 00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:39.000 It's feeling and seeing. And I honestly think 00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:42.619 it's racism and discrimination against her because 00:22:42.619 --> 00:22:46.779 people see the black first and then a woman. 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:53.009 So they were seeing. For me, in my own way of 00:22:53.009 --> 00:22:55.869 explaining this, that everybody was seeing what 00:22:55.869 --> 00:22:59.210 they see as a downfall instead of, wow, she's 00:22:59.210 --> 00:23:01.190 a woman. She's black. She's a woman of color. 00:23:01.289 --> 00:23:03.349 She's going to do a lot for BIPOC communities. 00:23:03.589 --> 00:23:06.250 I never heard her saying anything like that. 00:23:06.670 --> 00:23:13.410 But the Latino vote spoke up and wanted Trump, 00:23:13.529 --> 00:23:17.410 you know, better than Kamala, right? So I honestly 00:23:17.410 --> 00:23:21.019 think it's a huge problem here. It's a huge problem 00:23:21.019 --> 00:23:24.559 with my community. And I don't know if it's because 00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:27.579 I cannot say that it's ignorance because the 00:23:27.579 --> 00:23:30.960 voters who went for Trump, who happened to be 00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:34.140 Latino, are highly educated. So it's not like 00:23:34.140 --> 00:23:39.019 they don't understand. But I honestly feel and 00:23:39.019 --> 00:23:40.720 they're never going to say this. The things I'm 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:42.819 saying here, they're never going to admit that 00:23:42.819 --> 00:23:45.079 they're racist, that she was just a woman and 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:49.259 discrimination and racism that impact this decision. 00:23:49.400 --> 00:23:53.700 But Latino Latino vote was very low for Trump. 00:23:53.799 --> 00:23:57.259 It was not as high as Latino man. So I honestly 00:23:57.259 --> 00:24:00.940 think it was that Latino machismo, the machismo 00:24:00.940 --> 00:24:04.619 of not seeing a woman who happened to be a president, 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:07.559 you know, who can be a president. I'm sorry. 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:11.559 So I honestly think that not only her being a 00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:14.160 woman, but also being black in the machismo had 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:17.119 a lot to do with it. Yeah. And, you know, I would 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:19.559 probably venture to say the racism probably won 00:24:19.559 --> 00:24:22.079 out over the sexism in this sense, because one 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:23.900 of the things in the black community that we 00:24:23.900 --> 00:24:26.740 talked about, you know, at least amongst my friends, 00:24:26.859 --> 00:24:29.180 family, colleagues, and so on, is that Mexico 00:24:29.180 --> 00:24:31.619 has a woman president right now. Is that right? 00:24:31.680 --> 00:24:35.200 Yes. Yes. I was, I'm so excited. The third world 00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:38.359 country, we have a Mexican woman. I'm like, what's 00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:43.579 up? I'm totally, I'm super excited about my country 00:24:43.579 --> 00:24:48.700 finally. I honestly think that race has race 00:24:48.700 --> 00:24:51.660 is number one, because like you say, you know, 00:24:51.660 --> 00:24:53.779 we have a woman president. And if the machismo 00:24:53.779 --> 00:24:57.400 would play a role, she would never be a president 00:24:57.400 --> 00:25:00.279 of Mexico. Right, right, right. So we've got 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:02.980 to confront that. We've got to confront that 00:25:02.980 --> 00:25:06.359 because we've got so much at stake. You know, 00:25:06.359 --> 00:25:10.119 we've got so much that we're fighting for and 00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:14.519 that we need to. find unity around. We need to 00:25:14.519 --> 00:25:17.240 find some healing around. We need to raise some 00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:20.420 awareness and, you know, considering this incoming 00:25:20.420 --> 00:25:22.960 administration that wants to do more to burn 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:26.079 books and get rid of certain, you know, history 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:28.759 in the public school system and things like that. 00:25:28.940 --> 00:25:31.579 So how can Black and Latino communities work 00:25:31.579 --> 00:25:34.119 together for better health and opportunities? 00:25:35.140 --> 00:25:38.220 You know, doing what we're doing today. You're 00:25:38.220 --> 00:25:40.619 a black woman, beautiful black woman. I'm a beautiful 00:25:40.619 --> 00:25:44.000 Latina woman. And we're putting our ideas together 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:46.400 and we're being straight up, straight up with 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:48.839 each other. And we're being completely honest 00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:51.119 without being offensive towards each other. But 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:54.240 trying to understand what your community think 00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:57.099 about us. What do we think about you? And having 00:25:57.099 --> 00:25:59.680 dialogues. We need to start getting into those. 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:03.799 forums into those conferences and speak about 00:26:03.799 --> 00:26:06.460 how we feel about each other and how can we do 00:26:06.460 --> 00:26:09.460 better, right? But, you know, in those conferences, 00:26:09.579 --> 00:26:11.859 no way people are going to say the truth about 00:26:11.859 --> 00:26:14.559 each other. And that's what we need to do more. 00:26:14.680 --> 00:26:17.180 The Black and the Latino community, anyways, 00:26:17.539 --> 00:26:20.380 they don't like us. So let's give them a reason 00:26:20.380 --> 00:26:22.900 not to even like us even more. You know, like, 00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:25.339 let's get out there. Let's speak up. Let's speak 00:26:25.339 --> 00:26:29.200 out. And I feel that a lot of Black, a lot of 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:30.859 the people from the Black community, African 00:26:30.859 --> 00:26:33.920 -Americans too, like the Latino, very afraid 00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:36.880 to speak up in conferences. You know, most of 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:39.339 those conferences, look who are leading those 00:26:39.339 --> 00:26:41.500 conferences, the white folks, because if you 00:26:41.500 --> 00:26:43.799 say one wrong thing, I'll be them. You know, 00:26:43.839 --> 00:26:45.819 if you're Black and brown, you say one wrong 00:26:45.819 --> 00:26:47.759 thing and oh my God, nobody's going to forgive 00:26:47.759 --> 00:26:49.880 you. But if you're white and you can be acting 00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:52.700 crazy, yeah, everybody forgives you. And especially 00:26:52.700 --> 00:26:55.799 because your name is Ann Smith or whatever it 00:26:55.799 --> 00:27:00.750 is your name, right? So for me, it's... having 00:27:00.750 --> 00:27:03.150 podcasts like this, educating the community, 00:27:03.329 --> 00:27:07.690 but having real podcasts, not the political correct. 00:27:07.849 --> 00:27:10.529 I couldn't be political correct today and say 00:27:10.529 --> 00:27:13.009 to you, and say to you, no, it's no problem between 00:27:13.009 --> 00:27:15.849 Black and Latinos. No, it is. And it has been. 00:27:15.930 --> 00:27:17.869 And it has been for generations and generations. 00:27:18.170 --> 00:27:21.029 It's just that nobody wants to talk about it, 00:27:21.069 --> 00:27:23.509 right? Having more of these podcasts, going to 00:27:23.509 --> 00:27:26.490 conferences and co -presenting together. For 00:27:26.490 --> 00:27:28.970 example, if you know about vaccine. conference 00:27:28.970 --> 00:27:32.390 right um then you know partnering with somebody 00:27:32.390 --> 00:27:35.410 that is black and saying okay let's co -present 00:27:35.410 --> 00:27:37.950 you present on your community challenges in your 00:27:37.950 --> 00:27:40.730 community i present on challenges in my community 00:27:40.730 --> 00:27:43.750 start working together applying for grants together 00:27:43.750 --> 00:27:47.819 instead of separate Because that's what I see. 00:27:48.099 --> 00:27:50.740 And I don't know if you see this in the Latino 00:27:50.740 --> 00:27:53.380 community, right? Because I see in the Black 00:27:53.380 --> 00:27:56.420 community, what I see is that it's even, like 00:27:56.420 --> 00:27:59.359 you say, even discrimination against the Blacks, 00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:02.359 that they're dark skinned and light skinned and 00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:05.559 not working with each other, you know? So that 00:28:05.559 --> 00:28:09.920 must stop. And, you know, for me, I feel that 00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:12.099 it's a lot of ignorance when you're light skinned 00:28:12.099 --> 00:28:14.079 and you're Black. I'm like, you're still Black. 00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:16.720 regardless what you say people are gonna see 00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:20.339 you black so if you're vanilla if you're black 00:28:20.339 --> 00:28:23.299 if you're light skin i don't care it's like with 00:28:23.299 --> 00:28:25.819 me you know when i work with other latinos i 00:28:25.819 --> 00:28:27.740 always say that there's those latinos and the 00:28:27.740 --> 00:28:31.140 better latinos the latinos who feel better at 00:28:31.140 --> 00:28:34.200 the end of the day you still a latino that's 00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:36.599 not gonna go away even if you feel better than 00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:39.240 others right but we have those we have those 00:28:39.240 --> 00:28:43.119 in our community and when i say that the latino 00:28:43.119 --> 00:28:45.339 community almost want to kill me right when i 00:28:45.339 --> 00:28:48.119 say well you have the mexicans you have the central 00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:51.140 americans then you have the chicanos and then 00:28:51.140 --> 00:28:53.019 you have the mexico americans and then you have 00:28:53.019 --> 00:28:56.039 the better latinos did they say that they say 00:28:56.039 --> 00:28:57.640 that they're in this country and they're doing 00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:01.759 so well that oh my god they're rich and this 00:29:01.759 --> 00:29:03.519 and that well if you're doing so well what in 00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:05.619 the hell are you doing in a country that is not 00:29:05.619 --> 00:29:08.599 even yours You know what I mean? Like like when 00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:11.559 Latinos come to me and say, oh, no, we're doing 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:14.400 really well. And we left our country because 00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:15.920 we wanted to experience something different. 00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:18.319 You wanted to experience being discriminated, 00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:20.799 being treated wrong, having money in your country. 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:23.759 Get out of here. No, I don't think so. I don't 00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:25.619 think that you have money and I don't think you're 00:29:25.619 --> 00:29:28.019 better than none of us. So, yeah, I get some 00:29:28.019 --> 00:29:30.839 of those Latinos that tell me that they're doing 00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:33.480 well, that they were doing well in their country. 00:29:34.140 --> 00:29:36.480 And I don't believe that. I don't believe that 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:38.000 if you're doing well in your country, what are 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:42.700 you doing here? That's my question. And I think 00:29:42.700 --> 00:29:45.579 a lot of people feel that way. They do ask that 00:29:45.579 --> 00:29:49.940 question. You know, I will correct where I think 00:29:49.940 --> 00:29:52.799 that we disagree on something. In the Black community, 00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:57.160 where we have problems, now we do still have 00:29:57.160 --> 00:29:59.720 colorism, don't get me wrong. I don't think right 00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:03.920 now that's as big of an issue as the classism 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:09.009 and the political and cultural mentality. So 00:30:09.009 --> 00:30:12.789 we have a saying, not all your skin folk are 00:30:12.789 --> 00:30:17.549 your kin folk. That means that, and it came out 00:30:17.549 --> 00:30:20.369 in the vote, right? In that you still, you had 00:30:20.369 --> 00:30:22.970 a majority of Black men and Black women that 00:30:22.970 --> 00:30:26.309 voted for Kamala Harris, right? But you still 00:30:26.309 --> 00:30:31.789 had a 19%, a 10 or 15 % that did not, that voted 00:30:31.789 --> 00:30:35.799 straight up for Trump. You have candidates like 00:30:35.799 --> 00:30:37.960 here in my state of North Carolina, like Mark 00:30:37.960 --> 00:30:39.920 Robinson, who says that he would want to buy 00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:43.039 and own slaves. You know, you have people that 00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:46.180 have this different mentality. We also have along 00:30:46.180 --> 00:30:48.319 those classism lines, like what you just talked 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:51.700 about, those Black people who have made it and 00:30:51.700 --> 00:30:55.019 feel like because they made it, that there's 00:30:55.019 --> 00:30:58.480 no racism. I'll give you an example. I used to, 00:30:58.480 --> 00:31:01.480 I love hip hop music. I'm of the hip hop generation, 00:31:01.799 --> 00:31:08.049 right? Lil Wayne has been a hip -hop icon, right, 00:31:08.170 --> 00:31:10.970 since he hit the scene. He has grown his career, 00:31:11.109 --> 00:31:13.289 his popularity, all that other good stuff, and 00:31:13.289 --> 00:31:15.650 obviously his bank account has followed and reflected. 00:31:16.069 --> 00:31:20.690 And because of that, he wears a Trump hat. He 00:31:20.690 --> 00:31:24.589 also promotes gang activity. He says that he 00:31:24.589 --> 00:31:30.309 is proof that if he as a Black man can rise to 00:31:30.309 --> 00:31:33.150 this level of fame and fortune, then that is 00:31:33.150 --> 00:31:36.470 evidence that there is no need for a Black Lives 00:31:36.470 --> 00:31:39.789 Matter campaign. There is no need to stand up 00:31:39.789 --> 00:31:43.210 against police brutality. And I'm like, how can 00:31:43.210 --> 00:31:46.289 you believe both things? How can you promote 00:31:46.289 --> 00:31:50.250 gang activity, particular gangs that you want 00:31:50.250 --> 00:31:55.589 to be affiliated with, who rain down terror in 00:31:55.589 --> 00:31:58.750 Black communities, and at the same time, you 00:31:58.750 --> 00:32:01.609 don't want to stand up against police brutality? 00:32:02.410 --> 00:32:05.490 Because you're rich all of a sudden, but you 00:32:05.490 --> 00:32:07.509 didn't start out that way. Like you said, Julissa, 00:32:07.650 --> 00:32:12.269 these people, if it was that good, and we know 00:32:12.269 --> 00:32:14.410 because his music when he started out was talking 00:32:14.410 --> 00:32:16.509 about the hood and how difficult it was, how 00:32:16.509 --> 00:32:18.250 violent it was, all the different things he had 00:32:18.250 --> 00:32:20.670 to do to survive. That's what made him popular. 00:32:21.170 --> 00:32:25.390 So you got famous because you talked about the 00:32:25.390 --> 00:32:30.509 struggle and the pain and the violence and downright. 00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:35.220 degradation of being a Black poor man in the 00:32:35.220 --> 00:32:38.799 South, in New Orleans. That's how you got famous. 00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:40.779 That's how you got all your money. And now all 00:32:40.779 --> 00:32:45.519 of a sudden, you don't feel like racism is an 00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:49.180 issue that Black people as a whole should be 00:32:49.180 --> 00:32:52.220 concerned about. But you're still Black. And 00:32:52.220 --> 00:32:54.099 you got them tattoos all over your face. You 00:32:54.099 --> 00:32:56.180 really think that when you go in these places 00:32:56.180 --> 00:33:00.750 that people see your money before they see the 00:33:00.750 --> 00:33:02.809 fact that you're black, that you still don't 00:33:02.809 --> 00:33:05.849 experience racism and discrimination, even in 00:33:05.849 --> 00:33:08.650 these very expensive and exclusive locations. 00:33:10.569 --> 00:33:13.829 Definitely. No, no, no. Definitely. He's black 00:33:13.829 --> 00:33:16.269 and he will always be black and he will always 00:33:16.269 --> 00:33:18.789 be hood and he will always be ghetto for the 00:33:18.789 --> 00:33:22.910 white folks. Exactly. You know, you are now you're 00:33:22.910 --> 00:33:26.849 still in service of their their propaganda, their 00:33:26.849 --> 00:33:31.160 stereotype. Right. And now you have sold out 00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:36.420 your vote and your political voice to someone 00:33:36.420 --> 00:33:39.599 who doesn't care about you other than what you 00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:43.220 can do for them. And that's such a shame because, 00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:46.619 you know, somebody at his level should be helping 00:33:46.619 --> 00:33:48.640 us and being the voice of the voiceless. You 00:33:48.640 --> 00:33:51.000 have the money. You have the resources, man. 00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:55.039 Let's help communities. Let's help bringing uplifting 00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:58.150 your own community up. And, you know, like. And 00:33:58.150 --> 00:34:01.410 hold their hands. And it's just saddening to 00:34:01.410 --> 00:34:05.910 hear that he wears a Trump hat. And on top of 00:34:05.910 --> 00:34:08.610 that, don't use his power, his voice that the 00:34:08.610 --> 00:34:11.110 Lord has given him. Because not everybody gets 00:34:11.110 --> 00:34:14.329 out of the hood like he did. You know, he needs 00:34:14.329 --> 00:34:17.530 to count his blessings. You know? He needs to 00:34:17.530 --> 00:34:20.650 count his blessings. And I just don't understand. 00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:25.639 And again, I feel that that's part of the ignorance, 00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:28.719 you know? Thank you for joining us on Questions 00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:32.460 You Didn't Ask with me, Nyesha Frey, and my guest, 00:34:32.739 --> 00:34:36.480 Julissa Soto. Tune in next week as we continue 00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:40.340 our series, Ready or Not, The Real Talk Black 00:34:40.340 --> 00:34:41.860 and Latino Communities Need.