understand latinos, you have no idea. >> a lot more view in the world. like, yes! >> we're just close with each other. >> we were taught to be grateful. and why. >> you can still be grateful, but you don't have to be quite. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> los angeles, a city rich with a latina culture. five brazilians enjoy. i've been here for 27 years, with my chosen family, my friends, and my career. i'm a matchmaker. i know what it is. >> there is a lot of good in this world. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> so, you better believe, i know exactly where to get the best emily to serve the lady. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i've been coming to this restaurant since 1995. since i got here to l.a., i mean -- >> you are actually, on your day one. >> i am, girl. one of the things that i love and i'm obsessed with is that mole here. today, we are gonna make a -- [speaking spanish] . i love my puerto rican acts. >> here all all the ingredients. we're gonna blend this together. >> did you guys have a restaurant in oaxaca also? >> when we were in the oaxaca my dad made -- my grandpa's style maker. >> but major family decide to immigrate to the united states? >> my dad was not a cook at all. my dad moved to la first. he realized that there was a huge amount of people who are from oaxaca, that are you running for the food as much as he did. he realized, i want to open a restaurant, and he moved us to l.a., 25 plus years later, now, i'm making mole here. [laughs] >> so, here is the mole dish. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it's funny, i'm getting this all my life. >> this is the best mole ever. >> thank you. >> the best, girl. >> i'm ready! ♪ ♪ ♪ >> right. well, this is how we welcome you. >> thank you. >> [speaking spanish] >> thank you. and this is a drink with -- my favorite. and this is what we're gonna drink on saturday, when we host these great women. this is dangerous, because i think this can go down pretty easily. so, let's talk about the women that are gonna be there. how excited are you? >> i'm so excited. >> i'm excited about all our guests, but i will say that the one that my parents are always excited about, and anybody in the latino world, and any kind of world, gloria estefan. >> of course. >> not only an incredible musician, and broke all these barriers, and crossed over, but is showing us with an actress she is. she was on my show. she played my aunt. >> i'm surprised she's not sinking. and now, i would like to honor you with us. [laughs] >> and she was incredible, and, now she has got the father of the bride with anti garcia. >> i can't wait to see it. >> i'm warning you, do not take over my kitchen today, please. >> so we've heard that the goddess of all goddesses, the latina goddess, and then, we have my other goddess who i adore and love, and was my boss for many years. gloria calderon kellett. her reimagining of normal leaders one day at a time, which is just incredible based on her family. >> did you think there was gonna be some young, black fajita? >> the specific specifically of being a cuban american, going up three generations under one roof, we know this. like, i was with my mom, you, know under the same roof, until i was around, 16 or something or something like that. >> that is progressive. >> then, we have the beautiful gina torres, who is an actress and a tv producer. she has navigated this world of the letting a culture, where in this world of hollywood, they don't necessarily see her as a latina. >> it's not okay. he is in a kitchen in a restaurant. he needs to be in the hospital. >> i mean, for a long time, i didn't know she was latina. >> isn't that great? >> yeah. >> there is a fabulous maria hinojosa. >> i've spoken to her. she was with me on my podcast. every time i talk to her, i feel like i just went to harbor first class about life and politics, and then. >> we have your friend that you can tell me a lot about. julissa arce. it >> julissa is incredible. she is an author, activist, she came from wall street, and decided to end that career to dedicate herself to activism. >> she was undocumented. >> she was for a very long time. >> and her book. >> her new book, you sound like a white girl. this is the idea of learning to love yourself, and finding out who you really are. >> and then, we have monica ramirez. >> monica is -- >> she is [speaking spanish] >> that is what she is. >> she is our version of what's activists can look like. >> and also, janel martinez, indigenous after latina. and she has a website called, i'm a latina. >> imagine, navigating both indigenous mexicans, it's probably gonna be the same struggle that you feel. but then, on top of that, you are latina. and then, you are after latina. and you are indigenous. then, you have me, who will be feeding all of you. >> i'm so excited! >> i can't wait. well, to our dan. >> that's right, to our dinner! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> that looks amazing! >> [speaking spanish] >> it's probably gonna be the ladies night, right? ♪ ♪ ♪ >> all, right by you. >> so exciting! >> so, one of the things when they approach me to do this is, it's important for me to put out there that latinas are not a monolith, you know? that we are not a monolith, but yet, they're still thinking inherently, latina, about every single one of us. and still, i could have a table, 100 feet long, and we would be with everything that we look like. so, i just want to thank you for coming here, and joining this little actress. [laughs] >> little? not little. >> thank you for having us. >> i have a cuban sandwich right here. [laughs] >> this is a total cuban sandwich. i have a glorious sandwich, and a cuban stand. >> i love it! >> in the beginning, you are told that you were to latino for american audiences. >> absolutely. and to american for latino audiences. it went both ways. i grew up in both worlds, and i feel very comfortable in both. and that's what music allowed me to be what i became, because we had vocabulary. musically, and you know, language wise, in both worlds. they wanted to water us down for the american audience, take out the horns and the precautions, make us change our names. and then, for the latinos, they thought, why are you singing in english? and we told them, that's who we are. so, i don't want to succeed by watering down our sound. because if you are successful, we're gonna be doing it for the rest of our lives. and hello -- >> this is like history right here! >> i mean, i'm sorry. you are just an icon. can we just say, icon, icon, icon? i mean, icons. >> yes, to my gloria, i love you so much. i mean, gloria and gloria, that's so interesting. a lot of us have had to still deal with that, still had to deal with living in both worlds. but gina, you were forced from brace one identity in hollywood, right? >> i feel like i was living in three worlds. there was my world that i grew up in, also, spanish speaking, home, cuban parents. and then, you go out to the world, and then, i'm speaking english. and i am in the bronx. south bronx, having a great time. that's right. and then, going into this industry, as an actress. and nobody recognizes you as either one. there was no place for me, as a latina. and then, as a black woman, i just didn't identify as a black woman, because for me, it was cultural. >> right. >> because of course, i'm a black woman, i'm also cuban. when you are here in the united states, and they ask you to be in a box, and you don't fit into the box, culturally, it was different. it was not one that i identified with. but to work, to survive, it was something that i had to learn. to then learn to be whatever, lack, was. and then, feel like i was alienating that other part of myself, that latina self. it just kind of became the a -- look at myself from just being sad all the time, about not being able to full experience and express the entirety of myself. >> i think that is our superpower, though. ultimately, the fact that we have this discomfort, i tell my students, my young pupils, that freak out that you have, that -- what did you call it? >> my mind trick. >> but the fact that we can be in that space, where it is just like, am i enough? am i here? and i this? am i that? it's my spanish good enough? it's my english good enough? am i -- that is our superpower. it is the fact that we can live with that. >> but, we shouldn't have to. >> there is also a word for it. >> boot switch. >> and i feel like i could switch all the time. >> my coat switches, i'm from the inner city of chicago. my coat switches to that inner city self, to like, okay, the hollywood thing in the boxes that they love to put us in hollywood. >> but you're talking about what is prevalent in the latino community too. >> the fact that after latina, it's not, you know, accepted or it's not talked about. >> it is interesting for me to hear that because when i looked to media, outside of like, my home for representation it was women like you, very few on screens, which was an african american television market, where i cook them piece together like, oh my goodness! torres is her last name. wow! growing up in the bronx, many of us are, you know, black and brown. i just couldn't be that, you know? i hope that at some point, we can have, like, unpack why is racism so embedded in latin life, period? >> the legacy of the caste system is a horrible one. >> it might be a human condition. it is a human condition of colonization. >> yes, it is colonization that still exists in our mind. so, the caste system is something that has been outlawed for centuries. now. but the colonizers tell us, you have to be lighter skin to be more beautiful. and the things that we don't realize what we are actually say. we are still seeing that white people are better than us. and we are still aspiring to being white. and that's because of the caste system. >> you are saying there's only one way to be latina. there's only one way to be black. but like, why people get to be -- all sorts of different things. our identity is very complex because i am an immigrant. but i have friends who whose families have been in texas, in the first census of texas. >> you know, i am a roth latina. i identify as a wrong latina, right? my family came to this country as farmers. we could not go back to mexico. where i'm from in ohio, there's no question, i mexicans. when people see me, i mexican. but when i went to chicago for college, that was actually when i got more questions about whether i was mexican enough. so, i feel like we, have to confront ourselves on these things as well. >> yes, it's very much like that. but then, you are talking about the media, and how we are in a box. so, what is changing with that, gloria, because you know, come on gloria? >> this is my sister. this is my sister! >> i won't do anything without this woman. >> i won't do anything without this woman. a lot of people are changing. i'm blessed to be in the seat where right, now they're shining the spotlight on my change, but it is a lot of awesome, young storytellers that are out there, that just in need the opportunity. i mean, the burial ground for this past year of latino shows is like i've never seen, because when we were starting one day at a time, i remember going, latina, and this is coming. and, the future president, he's coming? it was like, this is the moment! we've been waiting for this moment. >> and gloria started that. every fellow was cuban on pbs. >> everybody was cuban on tv! >> but, i really feel like it was an exciting moment that then, and promoting my new show with love, all of those were gone. >> yeah. >> the pendulum swung back. i feel like we really have to be so loud in this moment, because i think that what is happening, that is beautiful, this cultural correction. people know that stuff has been bad. now, they are understanding, oh, i guess racism still exists. i think we were in this, really, we were like overwhelm this president. and then, we realized, oh, they just kind of ducked again. and then we get really loud. so, we need to confront that, like, this is a real thing. let's talk about it. let's extend our arms to one another, and say we do have this thing in common, this thing that we could not name, we do have it in common. how could we stand with each other? and hold each other up, and lift each other up. lift each other up oh my gosh, we can have an exchange of ideas, without resorting to fisticuffs. >> i desperately wanted to be a mother, but with that look like for me? >> did somebody say you need 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guys love arguing about politics. -- >> when i'm in miami, i'm just like this. can we talk about something fun? >> you just stay away from him, because it's destroyed families. >> we also need to respect each other's difference of opinion, which we're having a bit of a tough time doing. >> how do you respect someone's difference of opinion, this is a trick question, if sometimes it's so really bad? you know. they are racist -- antichoice, how can he have that conversation anymore? >> how do you think that that happened? >> i don't know how it happened. >> it happened over this period of time, where in fact latinos and latinos, we haven't been placed attention on, actually. we've been, from invisible, basically, to become a hyper visible. >> -- >> in trump and his campaign,, we became hyper visible, for something that was in truth, latinos and latinas are the second largest voting bloc. not a voting bloc, but a cohort. if latinos and latinos, are not thinking about democracy, breakfast lunch and dinner, u.s. democracy, then our democracy is in trouble. it's in trouble. so this thing of like, how do we understand everybody's differences? it's like, we've got a hold on, because this is what it's gonna look like for the next several decades. all responsibility has to be too -- the instigating, trying to [speaking spanish] it's gonna, get like of people think, well we kind of, we understand latinos, you have no idea. >> if we were truly informs, we would not be voting the way some of us are voting. because we are voting against our own interest. and, to everything that maria said, you add this wave of disinformation, that is specifically targeting latinas. >> people always want to blame us, because we don't vote. they yelled on vote. yes, but let's talk about gerrymandering. let's talk about how those more and more restrictions to us, to making it easier for us -- at the ballot box. >> they're like, you don't vote. it's like, you've never even tried. >> there's a story people want to hear, and want to, believe about whether or not we're showing up. but we show up every day, we show up all the time in different ways. the other thing is, we have to take it back, even before we had a conversation about this information, when only 1% of all philanthropic dollars have been donated in our communities, which includes money in our civic education work. and during the pandemic, when we were holding this nation up it gift to 0.8%. and then we talk about the disinformation, why people don't know, and what is a narrative that people are driving. i just feel like, there's so much gaslighting that happens. all the time. >> and by the way, not just filipinos. in general. >> two americans. >> i studied psychology and communications, it's fascinating to me, social media because this is a wonderful thing, and one of the most dangerous things that is happening in the world. because people do believe that they read, unfortunately this is across all the communities. i remember being a kid and a cuban household, which you fondly said it is true. you can't have a political conversation -- >> that's what would happen in mine. >> to me, i do watch these debates on american television, and i was in awe. and i would say, oh my gosh. we can have an exchange of ideas without going to fisticuffs! and it's like, that is gone. >> i can't have those conversations, and it makes me sad that i can't have those conversations, because they get too heated. >> you can't be a person of color in this world, and not be political. your presence is political. >> being a political -- >> i'm not a political. >> i'm not saying you are, but to your point about, if your point person of color you cannot be a political, because being a political is a political stance. >> that's my immediate family why door, but my mom and stepdad who are old school puerto ricans, is just keep your head down to just work. >> there is another generation, though, who in the last several years, has lived through the murder of george floyd, so that black lives matter movement has touched them as young people. like, the way seeing marcia martin luther king touch me when i was a little girl. >> when i first came to live in the u.s., my mom would tell me, that the united states is [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 therefore something stinks, i want to go find the source of that, i want to go throw it out, i want to change it. >> the shift is, when we were growing up, when i was growing up, we are taught to be grateful and quiet. be grateful and quiet. >> we can still be grateful, we 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're gonna write it. >> and we're gonna have our own table. >> that's right, we're gonna roundtable. >> i was gonna say to, we are talking about how harmful social media can be. but truthfully, i love the flip of that how empowering social media has been. particularly for millennials and gen z. >> so you are hopeful, when you think of -- >> you know, i go between a lot sometimes. i'm hopeful for the next generation. i feel like i personally am jaded by a lot of things, you know, in society. i will say, in this moment, i do cling to hope. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> malachai can implantation, i wanted to bring something that's beautiful and simple, and represents my culture of oaxaca. >> people still can't believe that i never wanted to have children. my grandmother, every day, god rest her soul, because she raised me. i love my grandmother so much. she'd say [speaking spanish] every day she would say that to me. every day she would say that to me, and i was like, okay. and one day when i was 30 she was like [speaking spanish] ? and i'm like. >> you are supposed to believe me. >> i don't know, is this something that you felt like you had to have kids? >> it's a man wanted to do. >> i think having a teenager, has made me check my choices. >> it will pass. >> it gets better. >> i was raised by a stay at home mother, who spent most of her life without children as a domestic, and then she came, she raised her children. that was my example. i knew i couldn't be that. that was not the mother i could be, i wanted to be a mother, i desperately want to be a mother. but, what did that look like for me? i always knew i wanted to do it, my husband wanted to do it, and i thought i was going to wake up one day and it was gonna be like, i'm ready. i'm ready to be a mother! i'm ready to do it! >> with that face. >> the day kind of wasn't coming, and i got to the point where my husband i are looking at each other and we're like are we gonna do this. and my friend was super against children, i think gloria you shouldn't, you're trying to change the world with your 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[laughs] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i'm always so amazed at your connection with puerto rico and puerto rican activism. how did that come about? >> that came about through my aunt. and also my father. it was difficult, though, because my spanish was poor. and i was made fun of on the island. when they used to call me yankee girl, i used to cry. so then, i stopped speaking spanish. you know, all that said, the pride that was instilled in me by my family down there is still with me to discuss this day. and my father was very, very proud. >> i also get embarrassed a lot about my spanish. i can't speak in spanish, but i don't feel as articulate. and i feel like, sometimes, spanish media makes me feel bad about it. do you do interviews in spanish? >> no. it's basically for the same reason. it's funny that you mentioned that because my latest project, now and then, it's the first project where i had to speak spanish fluidly fluently all throughout. >> it was that like? >> it was terrifying. >> [speaking spanish] >> i had my sister in going with me, the whole way. and she said to me, let's discuss the elephant in the room. when your a child, and you would come down to puerto rico, to visit me and that, the rest of the family, and you are critical because of your four spanish it zipped you up. when you were in the catholic school, in the catholic church with the nuns, you are not allowed to speak spanish. you were hit if you spoke spanish. she goes, what are we going to do about the -- because if we don't deal with it, you're not gonna do well in this project. and i said, oh my gosh, i hate you so much, and i love you so much. >> you know, carmen is so smart, the. >> you know, they're not gonna take my power. i'm going to kill this role. i'm going to speak spanish. i am not going to area bout my dialect. i am a new york puerto rican, and i am playing a new york puerto rican. so, let's go baby. i pulled it off. i still get nervous that the states peaking spanish. you know, it is a fools power that our own people use against us. >> yes. >> and it is dividing. >> i am so proud to be puerto rican. i don't want to be anything else. but when i go to puerto rico, they tell me on the puerto rican because i wasn't born there, and then, they say things like, bad about my spanish. >> it is funny we are talking about not feeling hole, not feeling, like, true puerto ricans. and we are here, in this café, this wonderful poet, mariposa, she had this loving poem, and one of the most prominent lines from that poem was, i wasn't born in puerto rico, but puerto rico was born in me. >> yeah. >> and take that. thank you for sitting down with 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 walk again, and all this, i would say to them, it's gonna be okay. >> damn. >> i used to think that i could share my story, and i could get white people to see me as human. and i realized, no we -- >> that was my outside check. 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[inaudible] you know, i was undocumented for a long time. and then, i worked on wall street, and i used fake papers because, that's the first book y'all should read. >> rate her book. >> people would always ask me, how did that one? i'm like, i don't know, you're gonna have to ask god. because i -- ♪ ♪ ♪ >> activists and artist fabiana or drugs, who did a top that i went to, and was talking about how willing grace, and ellen coming out, directly impacted all of the good that we saw for the latino community that we love, right? and she's like, it ten years. it has to resonate in pop culture. it has to sit in their, and then, ten years. my parents came here in 1962. it was happening in america in 1952? the number one show in america i love to see. human american, married to white women, everything is fine. he's amazing. everyone says he thinks he's fine. he speaks spanish, but it's mine. my parents came, and also speaks to nobody knows in this country. we >> so difficult. >> by the way, i didn't even know about him, so we did the show. >> there was an exodus of 14, 000, 14,000 plus cuban children who came, while they were gonna 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 has 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 own community that does it. >> a lot of times, it's us as cubans that are like, my parents came here legally. i'm going to -- >> when cubans got here, they were given citizenship. they were given access to welfare. >> i agree, that's right. >> so, when the rules have changed, it's like there is no right way for other immigrants. >> i think a lot of that was the guilt of the american government, when they left them high and dry, and my dad was a bay of pigs, he was two years a political prisoner. we are seeing those differences that you are seeing now. there are ukrainian refugees, who are able to come from the mexico, u.s. border into the u.s., and as they should, however, we are not treating central american immigrants, haitian immigrants. >> haitian, yes. >> to come in and seek refuge the same way. >> typically, because there is a racial isolation there, right? >> that's where i was going with this. >> so is there a double standard? >> definitely a double standard. look at the lottery system, the visa lottery system, and how those visas are allocated. that is totally racialized. >> so it's the group that has been thrown under the bus by each political party, year after year, decade after decade? immigrants and refugees. >> yes, that is where i am with you, lisa, which is, i wasn't born in this country, but i became a citizen. so, i'm gonna make this country the country that, it's says it is. but it's not gonna happen unless we are doing it. >> what do you think we should do? ideas, how we can make this better? >> monica? >> monica, you are, to me, an expert on this. really, seriously. >> i am not an expert on this. >> to gloria's point, like, what do we do, it's the narrative that has to come first, right? the policy will follow the narrative shift. we gotta tell the stories. we gotta write the books. no one here is waiting for permission. we are all just doing it, right? what comes next is different political leaders, leaders who are actually leaders, right? who are gonna be brave enough to do what's required to change the law, in order for us to get there, it's gonna require the public to apply the right pressure. and in order to have the right conditions to apply the pressure, i think you have to go back to the narrative. >> i used to think that i could share my story, and i could get white people to see me as human. then i realized, no, i mean -- >> was that my outset? >> which i realized is that, when i was never gonna convince someone to see me as human, and that's, it's not my job to convince someone else of my humanity. so, to me, the narrative change has to be a narrative change of how we see ourselves. >> yes. >> how we see our place in this country, and the narrative change has to be, to energize the choir. >> there is something that has happened in the american civil rights movement, which is there is a story that people want to tell about who are the good migrants, who are the bad migrants, right? because we are not challenging each other on that. people are getting away with it. >> they are here, and i understand people are like trying to live their lives, but i also feel like people flip their own narrative, as if, you know, it wasn't a struggle, or maybe, it wasn't. and then, now, it's like, you are on your own. like, why do people do that? >> that's the other lie, right? that you are all the time. nobody helped me, no one. >> i know! >> it is a lie! we've all had fairy godmothers. >> oh my god, i wouldn't be here if i didn't have very godmothers. >> so, they decide event for themself, to make it okay, to turn back, or turn a blind eye. because it is all fair. it's all fear based. >> you know, we just suffered this tragedy in eovaldi, texas, right? >> thank you for breaking up the 19 children and the teacher whose lives were still toll in. >> i mean, we could not forget. >> we are doing this and celebrating, and saying to each other, love and empowerment, and it's also we are being attacked. >> absolutely. >> that's our communities responsibility to keep the story alive. one year after el paso, one year after, on the anniversary of the shooting in el paso, not a single major u.s. newspaper ran a front page story, commemorating, remembering what's happened. >> jeez. >> we cannot let that happen. >> i worry a lot about the mental health toll, overall, of being attacked every day. i'm trying to figure out how to survive, figuring out where kids are gonna come home, if you're gonna come home like, that is toxic stress the people are living with every day, that they will pass on to their children. and you know, some of us that trump has been passed down to us too, when you talk about therapies imported and good, and we should get it in our gets needed. i don't know that you are there yet. >> historically, our community looks down upon being, having to go to therapy, or whatever. >> or medication, oh my god. >> they really feel that is a weakness. when it is not at all. >> you talked about a lot of heavy issues. but we are the winds? 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>> this table, i think, is a really great representation of our resilience, of the beauty in our community, of the power in our community. each of these people, each of these generations, carries in us their survival, and carries it is the job way. >> i carry my grandmother. >> to me my grandmother was everything. i carried her from the mountains of puerto rico to the day i died. >> yeah, and there's so much beauty in our community. and so much to be joyful about, and so much to celebrate. >> anything is possible, right? even though doesn't seem that way, sometimes it seems so dire, but if you look at this table, anything is possible. >> looking gorgeous, looking you looking gorgeous. >> i just came out the caption. i just look at like that all the time. >> cheers, cheers. >> you all don't look like this when you go kicking? >> i'm usually in a flannel robe. >> i know the queen over here -- >> oh no girl. >> i hope y'all enjoy dinner. >> but we do, it's wonderful. >> i know you already had desert, but i want to bring a little pocket to, you this is a mask, oh thanks so much for hearing your conversation. i don't think my grandma would've believed me today, that i would be sitting -- my mom believes that are gonna be feeling all of you, so thank you guys. >> oh, that's delicious. >> this is good. >> i'm so grateful to all of you joining me at this table, so articulate intelligent latino women. so salute, and thank you so much. thank you so much. >> i want to honor that we are on -- land today, and that those of the indigenous people this land. and how grateful i am that at this moment, we get all be in conversation. because all of you make me better, so thanks for letting me share space with you today. >>, and i'm going to say that our grandmothers was a big theme today. so i want to celebrate my grandmother, who came to this country at 57, and started over, was pulled out of school in cuba and nine years, old talk to go to work because of the depression, and wanted to be a lawyer. been born in 1905. and she told me, you are going to have to sing, because that is a gift? and if you don't share, you won't be happy. so to our grandmothers, but it kept that tradition alive. >> i'm so grateful for being here in, i'm so grateful for being in your presence, thank you, and thank you for doing all that you've done, although you continue to do, putting your entire hearts into it. you make me better, you give me places to look. even places to grow. this is been my greatest honor. >> gentle totally inspires me, because general coming from the -- people, of honduras. indigenous black people, who have resisted under every possible form, to have the -- presence here. >> in terms of survival, heck yes. >> so beautiful. >> i'm very appreciative, and i'm so grateful. i feel like i was led to the space, to being conversation with you all. what you are doing as inspired me, and i'm looking for to walk in this journey with you all. >> i want to say that i love you all, and i truly believe in my heart, that we are building in the world of our dreams. and it's my honor to be able to build that world with you. and i believe that we are the answer, and i know that we're gonna win. >> yes. >> i just want to say, that in a world where it's really difficult to find mirrors, each of you has been a mirror for me, and you've helped me to feel scene to feel loved, and i just hope that we can all realize in the ways that i have realized, that all we ever needed was each other. so due to view. >> yes. >>,? >>. >> [speaking spanish] ♪ ♪ ♪ hi everyone,, with all eyes on washington, and the question of who holds power in america, the upcoming votes will come down to key battleground states. right, now latinos are the largest minority voting blocks, and where the most misunderstood communities in the country. yes, the majority vote democrat, but in 2020 there is a notable shift to the republican party. with the future of our democracy in the balance, i wanted to find out what is fueling that rightward shift in latino communities across the country. to have a conversation about all these things straight ahead, but first, this field report from florida.

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