i wasn t american enough in certain spaces, you know, finding all of these words, you know, for things, for scenarios that you never thought you d be in just so you can feel like you belong and people can understand who you are when you re just trying to be a person. melissa, in as much as i think that is what we hook into about nina, with vanessa, we see dreams and inspirations that only we are feeling. what did you want to bring? i was given the gift of kiara extending a little bit of a story and giving a little bit more insight into who she is and what her actual dreams and ambitions are. when i read that, i was like, oh, my gosh, i ve always loved vanessa because very clearly i saw myself in her and this woman that feels stuck in this neighborhood where i felt stuck
different. when we see first-different succeed, all the love and flowers, but we don t tap into the loneliness of being first, of being lonely, of being different. what in your own life did you want to bring to this, nina? a lot. i think we re all nina. we ve all experienced the fragmenting of ourselves because you re trying to represent who you are and all the people and places and the culture that makes you up with pride and with joy and orgullo. but at the same time, in a world that almost calls to you conform and to quiet all of that in order to assimilate. the fragmentedness of feeling like i wasn t latina enough at some points, like, i wasn t american enough in certain spaces. you know, finding all of these
not do what we need to do to get answers. i also want to expand on that. quickly. this is also such a part of the trump playbook, the way he went after hillary clinton for being corrupt. he is going to take that fight to joe biden. i mean let s remember this is the president who comes to national prominence by saying that our first african-american president wasn t american and bringing up the specious issue of his birth certificate. he is going to run this hard. he is going to come just as hard as he always has about the media and about liberals and, you know, progressives were talking about impeaching justice kavanaugh. this is all of a piece, so there s no question there will be hard core supporters for the president who will be motivated by him saying, this is liberals doing their there. hey, david, very quickly we need to ask, there is another country that is in turmoil, or at least embroiled in controversy this morning and that is the uk. the uk prime minister boris johns
don t know how you don t carry that with you into the voting booth. we re not talking about an isolated comment here, michael. we re talking about a president that started his political rise with birtherism saying that president obama was not one of us, that s basically what he was saying. and he wasn t american. all the way to now telling four women of color elected to the u.s. congress, go back to where you come from, even though three of them were born here. but when you look at him calling baltimore a place that no human being would want to live, maybe he meant go back to where you come from because he sees areas of color where the people of color are the majority of the districts, he sees them as infested. well, reverenreverend, as yo being a new yorker the president s rhetoric on these issues has been hateful and divisive long before he discovered birtherism as a national issue. he played this role on the stage in new york for decades. i think we all need to report
originally it was donald trump trying to claim that barack obama wasn t black enough, wasn t a black american, wasn t american, period. and now looking at kamala harris, there is a conservative effort trying to create some discord among the black community to call into question who is truly black as a way to use a digital voter suppression ultimately, create banter and conversation that ultimately riles black folks up, confuses them and keeps them from vigorously participating in the process to get rid of donald trump. so i want us to understand that this is more than what it might appear to be on the surface in this moment of whether calm la is surging and trump is being threatened. the mueller report found there was a digital effort, part of it had to do with russian bots in 2016 to get at black folks and keep them from participating using a variety of narratives on twitter. this is one that s playing out about birtherism and ultimately about whether black folks who