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Time . Yeah, i mean, its awkward for me, just because, you know, as a person, i hate to wear that, even though some people identify that. But its good to make work; i mean, thats what it comes down to. Its good to make work, and for me, its just as an artist not as a native person or an american person, but as an artist its important to make things that kind of explore, you know, who we are as americans, who i am as a native american, what tribalism means, and so thats all just, you know, part of it. Hinojosa you, though. The film that everybody has seen Smoke Signals was extraordinary, because it was the first feature film directed by a native american director that made it to national release. Had a huge following; in fact, you said that the film kind of went on and on and on. Yeah. Hinojosa . For a long time. What was the impact of Smoke Signals, now that you stand back and ....
Are you gonna run for president . I think i just got an f from you actually. This is over. David fahrenthold welcome. Great to be here so a reporter in 2016, who people like and admire laughs youre like half unicorn, half bigfoot. It wont last. No it couldnt possibly be. Were not in a business that people like or admire very much these days. Were kind of between child molesters and irs investigators, right . The journalism business has seen better times. Right worse than Congress Actually right. What happened . How did we get here . How did we get to such a low ebb . What did we do wrong . I thought we were doing the peoples work . Well theres a lot of us in the business right. Some of us do it well. Some of us do it poorly. But mostly were a good foil for everybody right . Politicians on both sides see us as when things arent going their way they find its a convenient way to blame us. Right but the public believes them. They c ....
You have done, essentially, is dedicated your life to looking at poor, disadvantaged communities and people and saying, i see amazing potential. Correct. I believe that most people are born into the world as assets, not liabilities. Its all in the way you treat people that drives behavior, so on the basis of the insight which is largely autobiographical i built a center in pittsburgh beginning in the 1960s to work with kids in the streets during the riots and unemployed adults during the early 1970s. And i redefined the strategy to work with Public School kids who are at risk by using the arts as way of redeeming their souls and creating opportunity for life, and recovering unemployed individuals largely on public assistance by putting them in worldclass Technology Facilities that can actually teach them the skill sets that they can use. Hinojosa okay, so, so, so, so. L ....
This is overheard. cheers and applause dr. Gates, welcome. Thank you. So nice to see you sir. Its an honour to be back in austin. Oh my god i love what i have seen of the series. I love it. Yeah . What do you like about it . What i love about it most is that it takes a subject that we think we know something about. The experience of black america since Martin Luther king at a moment when we need to be talking about race in this country in a serious and sober way and it looks at the political, the cultural, it looks at every conceivable aspect of life in this country and it just comes alive. It just jumps off of the screen. The first couple of times i looked at clips of this series i though i wanna see the entire thing right this minute. Ah thats great. It may be the best thing that ive seen you associated with and i just cannot wait. Thank you. To see the entire thing. Well in a sense its a documentary autobiography of our generati ....
Find his mother in the United States, and he did it all alone. And you spent five years essentially recreating his story and reporting this book. And i have to tell you that the reporting in this book is extraordinary. Thank you. Hinojosa i mean, you actually. You meet this little boy when hes 15 years old on the u. S. mexico border, and what makes you decide to say, im going to tell the story of enrique . Well, i wanted to tell more broadly the story of these millions of women who have come to the United States from mexico and Central America. You know, around the country, we know these women. They clean our homes, they clean our offices, they take care of our children. Among latinos, they are women in our families. Theyve come here because they face this horrible choice of, do i stay in my country, not be able to feed m ....