speaks to nobody knows in this country. we so difficult by the way, i didn t even know about him, so we did th show there was an exodus of 14 000, 14,000 plus cuban childre who came, while they were gonn cut cast out of cuba they were unaccompanied they were instead, and, now the same children are put into cages. yeah. the last ten years, the narrative on television ha been very different. latinos and latinos are scary, the two are coming to take over there s so many misconceptions about immigration, and sometimes, it is ourselves like, it is us, it is our ow community that does it a lot of times, it s us a cubans that are like, my parents came here legally. i m going to - when cubans got here, the were given citizenship they were given access t welfare. i agree, that s right so, when the rules have
like, the way seeing marci martin luther king touch m when i was a little girl when i first came to live i the u.s., my mom would tell me that the united states i [speaking spanish] , it s somebody else s house if someone smells bad in a house, you don t go tell someone. there is a shift between the way my mom usually 90 states and the way i view it. to me, the united states as my house. it belongs to me, and therefor something stinks, i want to go find the source of that, i wan to go throw it out, i want t change it. the shift is, when we wer growing up, when i was growing up, we are taught to b grateful and quiet be grateful and quiet. we can still be grateful, w just don t have to be quiet. right, and that s the difference we re saying we re grateful, but here s the story, and we r gonna write it and we re gonna have our ow table. that s right, we re gonna roundtable
one of the most prominent line from that poem was, i wasn t born in puerto rico, but puert rico was born in me. yeah. and take that thank you for sitting down wit me, my friend. don t get me cry. i know, by the way, both of us are looking at each other like this like, we re gonna start crying with each of thank you, justina machado. i love you i love you too. [laughs] i d be crying and thinking, she is a nine year old she doesn t realize. she doesn t know how gonna wal again, and all this, i would say to them, it s gonna be okay damn. i used to think that i coul share my story, and i could ge white people to see me a human. and i realized, no we that was my outside check [laughs]
about whether we are democrat o republican. something not agreed about is what how fast we should have gotten out. the ambassador to afghanistan said that starting in april, numerous times a week, they would send out messages to americans that are registered with the embassy that were in afghanistan and saying he said that he has been in foreign service for over 40 years in that he has never seen wording more harshly than they have sen out to americans basically saying get out, you ve got to get out before the deadline. the original deadline was may and then that was extended. so i m not putting this on the people there, but some of the people there, and certainly i think all of the people there had the opportunity to make the decision to leave. i think it s wrong we left before every american gets out, i think most americans feel tha way, but it s not like the stat department, it s not like the embassy, it s not like the
but if there was any military involvement, absolutely no way is this what could possibly hav been planned. they didn t plan, it appears to me that they planned for the absolute best case thing to happen and they got the worst when what you need to do is pla for the worst case and you kind of hope that you re going to ge somewhere in the middle there hope for the best possible, but this coming no, this strange credibility as well. when you say statements like this you lose credibility. everybody who has been in the military, in the other millions that are in the military now, they know that there is no way this is how it was planned. there are concerns about everything we left behind, beyond the equipment, some of the intel stuff too. everything from biometric identification to databases of personal information to active monitoring of cell networks is now finding its ways into they