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Capítulo 095: Unpacking The Latino Tote · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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  Speaker 1: particular the post election week healthscape, gap beat the Low
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  Speaker 1: and we are unpacking the Latino tote. There is a
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  Speaker 1: Latino tote that I feel all of our conversations about
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  Speaker 1: the like latin X participation in this election can fit into.
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  Speaker 1: And we've been reading about it on Twitter and on
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  Speaker 1: Instagram and on cable news, hearing like non latin X
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  Speaker 1: people to talk about the Latin X vote, kind of
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  Speaker 1: seeing the conversation, UM go on and on and on,
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  Speaker 1: and we want to unpack the tote here with you
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  Speaker 1: all today. And I actually think that we need to
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  Speaker 1: make totes printed that's a Latino vote on them because
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  Speaker 1: it's like now become a buzzword, it's a trending topic. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: we have definitely kept up with the conversations about the
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  Speaker 1: Latino vote, the Latin X vote, if you will, and um,
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  Speaker 1: it's interesting to see non latin X folks or not
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  Speaker 1: people of color, even mainly white people that have this
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  Speaker 1: um they talk about the Latino vote, right and especially
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  Speaker 1: in this election, of the number of Latinos and latin
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  Speaker 1: X folks that have that showed up for Trump, which
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  Speaker 1: is its own conversation. But like they failed to mention
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  Speaker 1: the percentage of white people that voted for Trump. He
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  Speaker 1: actually you know, went up in percentages of white voters.
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  Speaker 1: So they need to collect their folks. We need to
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  Speaker 1: collect our folks, right and everyone at those intersections. But
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  Speaker 1: it's very interesting to see not to see white people
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  Speaker 1: talk about the Latino the latin X vote in these ways. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and like you said, white people came out in even
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  Speaker 1: larger numbers to vote for Donald Trump this election when
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  Speaker 1: we compare to the sixteen numbers white people, even at
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  Speaker 1: the white electorate, even post COVID nineteen fiasco, came out
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  Speaker 1: even stronger for him. And it is bizarre. It's very telling,
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  Speaker 1: but it also gives us a lot of insight to
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  Speaker 1: the potential of like a liberal or left leaning electorate
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  Speaker 1: to really pull together and get something accomplished, like at
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  Speaker 1: the final hour, because it's sort of what we're seeing
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  Speaker 1: right now, even though there's kind of a little coup
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  Speaker 1: in progress, like white people came out in larger numbers,
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  Speaker 1: but we still are beating them, which I think it
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  Speaker 1: says something. Yeah. Absolutely, And I also think it's really
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  Speaker 1: important to actually think about the Republicans strategy, and they
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  Speaker 1: have a really good strategy, whether or not you agree
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  Speaker 1: with it. We obviously do not lean that way. We're
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  Speaker 1: very far left in the progressive lane. Um. But one
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  Speaker 1: of the things when reading about the quote Latino latin
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  Speaker 1: X vote is that the Republicans targeted or they knew
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  Speaker 1: to outreach to evangelical Christians that were Latino and they
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  Speaker 1: knew that. And I think that that's where the Democratic Party, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the left wing party, really gets it wrong. You know,
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  Speaker 1: not all Latinos are immigrants and left wing and you
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  Speaker 1: know wants quote social services right. Um. And that's one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that I've really been thinking about post election,
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  Speaker 1: is how the Democratic Party really fails Latinos, and then
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  Speaker 1: we're expected to just show up for them, for the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party because you know, they have quote our best interests,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't actually show up for us. And not
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  Speaker 1: to be forgotten in these conversations, ever, is the reality
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  Speaker 1: of democratic presidents and democratic like parties for decades now
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  Speaker 1: having really awful impacts on our communities. And the conversation
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  Speaker 1: always comes back to immigration, and well, who built the
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  Speaker 1: cages to begin with that we're talking about today. Those
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  Speaker 1: were not built under Donald Trump, not all of them.
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  Speaker 1: You know that that was under democratic leadership. And so
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  Speaker 1: there are ongoing um harms that have been done and
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  Speaker 1: are being done by Democrats, and having Democrats in office
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  Speaker 1: has never necessarily been like a symbol of freedom and
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  Speaker 1: justice and hope for Latin X communities, like on multiple levels.
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  Speaker 1: So it's very hard. But I also wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: coming up around conversations regarding the Latino vote. Item number
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  Speaker 1: one to remove from the Latino tote is that by
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  Speaker 1: demographic Latin X groups voted very differently, did not vote
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  Speaker 1: as a monolith, which has been pointed out over and
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  Speaker 1: over again forever. I feel like it's always around election
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  Speaker 1: season that the national conversation spends like thirty seconds on
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  Speaker 1: Cubans voting very right all the time and leaning right historically.
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  Speaker 1: So this year that conversation came back around in major
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  Speaker 1: ways and we were all like, oh my god, Florida, WTF.
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  Speaker 1: And then we were all like, you know, sucking face palm.
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  Speaker 1: The Cubans with the Republican asked voting, but they were
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  Speaker 1: the only ones. They were not the only Latinos who voted.
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  Speaker 1: Read and so there is this pole provided to us
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  Speaker 1: by the American Election Eve pole on the National Latino
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  Speaker 1: vote breakdown, you said, do you want to share some
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  Speaker 1: of these numbers with our listeners because I find them fascinating. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: So breaking it down by region, these aren't very specific.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously South America is huge, but we see fifty eight
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  Speaker 1: percent voted for Biden and voted for Trump. Sot of
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  Speaker 1: South Americans in the US voted for Trump. For Central
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  Speaker 1: Americans were attent for Biden and ent for Trump. For
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  Speaker 1: Puerto Ricans, we have sevent for Biden and percent for Trump,
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  Speaker 1: which is still really high. They're all really high. They're
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  Speaker 1: all really high, honestly. Um, for Cubans, we have forty
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  Speaker 1: percent for Biden, fifty two percent for Trump, and mexicanal's
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  Speaker 1: Mexican Americans cheek Donald's percent for Biden and t for Trump.
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  Speaker 1: So it's so interesting to see these numbers because, as
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  Speaker 1: you pointed out, I mean, everybody had above percent at
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  Speaker 1: least voting read and voting for Donald Trump across the board.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a ton of specificity in this graph. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's folks asked like, where's the Dominican uh polls? Because
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  Speaker 1: you know, Dominican Americans are significant enough demographic and voting
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  Speaker 1: block that I think they could have had their own.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, everybody had a sizeable chunk of the voting folks,
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  Speaker 1: at least of those polled right who voted red. And
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  Speaker 1: so that's very telling. Absolutely. I mean, one of the
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  Speaker 1: really fascinating things that I learned a couple of days
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  Speaker 1: prior to election day what I listened to Lelo podcast
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  Speaker 1: podcast and they interviewed folks in Florida and they interviewed
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  Speaker 1: a Venezuelana and she was an undecided voter and This
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  Speaker 1: was a couple of days before elections. She was undecided,
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  Speaker 1: and she was saying that her entire family voted for
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  Speaker 1: Trump because they were because Trump allegedly, I had never
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  Speaker 1: actually have heard this. I've never seen this actually sourced. Allegedly,
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  Speaker 1: Trump said that he would help Venezuela if he was elected.
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  Speaker 1: And so this also goes into a much further conversation
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  Speaker 1: about misinformation that is spread via Facebook, via What'sapp that's
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  Speaker 1: owned by Facebook. For folks who don't know, What's App
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  Speaker 1: is very prominent in the Latin American communities because it's
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  Speaker 1: it's free, you don't you can have it on any
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  Speaker 1: kind of phone, it's not specific to an iPhone or
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  Speaker 1: a Samsung. You can download it. And so folks talk
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  Speaker 1: to their family members in Latin America, in the US,
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  Speaker 1: wherever through What's Up. And there's a lot of misinformation
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  Speaker 1: spread that way. So I would not be surprised if
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  Speaker 1: someone doctored a photo where it's set where Trump is
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  Speaker 1: supposedly saying I'm gonna send aid to Venezuela if I'm
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  Speaker 1: elected a second term, right, And so folks are also
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  Speaker 1: thinking about their respective home countries, right, And so it's
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  Speaker 1: really important to take those things into consideration, whether or
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  Speaker 1: not you agree with them. I still think it's important
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  Speaker 1: to know why, like why are Latinos showing up in
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  Speaker 1: these ways for Trump? And that's what's so great about
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  Speaker 1: any type of specific data that really breaks things down
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  Speaker 1: into more recognizable parts than just the sort of bland
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  Speaker 1: Latin X labeling, because if we look at, for example,
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  Speaker 1: the folks that vote read more often than any other
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  Speaker 1: Latin X group, Cubans, right, Cuban Americans, we can talk
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  Speaker 1: about them specifically and their specific relationship to immigration, their
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  Speaker 1: specific relationship to race and to economics, and the really
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  Speaker 1: harsh reality that most Republican wealthy Cuban Americans are descendants
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  Speaker 1: of slave owners, like quite literally, you know, um plantation
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  Speaker 1: owners who absolutely did not want to participate in the
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  Speaker 1: socialist redistribution of unjustly inherited wealth, you know, and then
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  Speaker 1: fled Cuba and came to the United States. Like these
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  Speaker 1: are where those interests are coming from. Vastly different than
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  Speaker 1: I would say, most Central American voters, regardless of age,
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  Speaker 1: you know, um or how long they've been in the
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  Speaker 1: United States, they're not. So I think something that we're
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  Speaker 1: continuing to learn is that we need specificity, We need
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  Speaker 1: like really deep knowledge of the specific folks and communities
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about. The r g V came up a
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  Speaker 1: lot too. The r g V vastly different voting interests
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  Speaker 1: than Cubans in Florida, but still voting red um in
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  Speaker 1: many instances. Yeah. Absolutely, thank you for bringing that up.
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  Speaker 1: It's so true. And the specificity is really important because
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  Speaker 1: that's how I think that moving forward of folks that
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  Speaker 1: are running grassroots campaigns or just campaigns in general, like
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  Speaker 1: they really need to know how to reach the quote,
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  Speaker 1: how to get the Latino vote right and reach Latinos
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  Speaker 1: like in legit in real ways, and that's really important
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. It's not just playing fucking Bussito on your
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  Speaker 1: phone and you know, thinking that all right, I got them. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: that was so that just whatever the context was behind
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  Speaker 1: that little clip of Joe Biden playing best Bussy Tho
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  Speaker 1: off his phone and like smiling along and one man
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  Speaker 1: in the crowd pegging him on it, telling him to dance,
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  Speaker 1: like there was something going on there, somebody told him
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  Speaker 1: to do it. But just the little clip itself, it
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  Speaker 1: just speaks volumes and it doesn't come off right. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't look good. I feel like I feel the thing
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  Speaker 1: here is that no one told him to do it,
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  Speaker 1: is how I interpreted. I feel like he was just
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: trying to be like cool and cute. You know. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I know that's bassit though. That's how I interpreted. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, I could be wrong. I don't know, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't really know what to think post
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  Speaker 1: election in terms of the Latino vote. Um, are we
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  Speaker 1: over it? I don't know. Should we be over it?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not? But I think we do need the specificity,
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  Speaker 1: Like you're like, you're saying um because, like everyone says
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  Speaker 1: every single time, we're not a monolith. And so you know,
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  Speaker 1: playing um selena is not going to resonate in the
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  Speaker 1: same way for you know, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans on
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  Speaker 1: the East coast, right, it's not the same, aime, It's
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  Speaker 1: not the same. And having real people from these communities
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  Speaker 1: on these campaigns is I think what's going to make
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  Speaker 1: a big difference. Yeah. And also just you know, I
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  Speaker 1: would like to start seeing more voting breakdown just based
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  Speaker 1: on class and income because I think, especially with regards
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  Speaker 1: to Latin X voters and Latino voters, I think that
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  Speaker 1: class plays a much bigger role than the polls, and
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  Speaker 1: the pollsters have been necessarily acknowledging and um, there are
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  Speaker 1: huge class disparities within the Latino electorate, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that drives so much of um our voting choices. Also,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: as we tend to hyper focus on religion, I feel
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: like folks hyper focus on the single issue religious voters,
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  Speaker 1: and they forget Oh no, they're like literal Latin X millionaires,
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  Speaker 1: Like can we talk about that? And how they're like
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  Speaker 1: throwing everybody else under the bus for their tax breaks.
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  Speaker 1: It's so true. I think that now, granted, there are
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: like really loud Latino for Trump supporters. I know that
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  Speaker 1: they exist. I've seen the homies for Trump page. I've
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  Speaker 1: seen Chingle Bling, whoa like huge shocked, well not I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if shocked, but wow, Chinglebling very outright supporting Trump. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know. UM, But I think that there's
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  Speaker 1: also a lot of quiet Latino Trump supporters. And I've
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  Speaker 1: said it before, and those are the ones that vote
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  Speaker 1: because of their tax bracket and they vote read for
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  Speaker 1: those reasons. I like have heard since you know, pre elections,
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  Speaker 1: I heard from people, not my direct friends, with people
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  Speaker 1: that I've been around that have made money that are
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  Speaker 1: like new money Latinos right voting for Trump, But they
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  Speaker 1: don't say it. You're never gonna see that on their
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  Speaker 1: social media. You're never going to see them sharing a
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: pro Trump Facebook, you know post. But they're there, and
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  Speaker 1: those are the ones we need to to talk to.
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  Speaker 1: They're the ones in our families probably maybe yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's also it's just it's exhausting because I don't
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  Speaker 1: know of any argument I can make at this stage
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  Speaker 1: of the game, right, Like, if everything that has happened
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  Speaker 1: thus far has not been enough to convince people not
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  Speaker 1: to vote red, I literally don't know what it is. Right. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think, like I think that misinformation has a lot
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  Speaker 1: to do with it, right, And I think that getting that,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: going to the source of that and cutting that and um,
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  Speaker 1: Twitter has enabled a lot of abuse. But I did
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  Speaker 1: notice and they had said that they were going to
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  Speaker 1: be flagging posts that were incorrect, right, that they were
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  Speaker 1: factually incorrect, which what they what they were doing for
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  Speaker 1: like all of Trump's tweets post election. Um. But I
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  Speaker 1: think that there's some serious, serious responsibility that the social
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  Speaker 1: media apps and so the heads of these networks need
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  Speaker 1: to like take responsibility for you know, because that misinformation
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: is real and that's why you have people believing Trump
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: said he was gonna help Venezuela. You know, I've like
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: seen firsthand the misinformation that's this that is spread on
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: WhatsApp when I was in Bideu at the pre pre
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: lockdown in Biddeu and my demo was showing me what
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: was being shared on his WhatsApp groups and I was like,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: that's wrong, like and I showed him like, this is wrong,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: and I just did a quick google and it It's
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: unfortunate that that misinformation is spread, especially in the pandemic,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: especially during an election season. Um, but yeah, the onus
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: needs to be on the folks creating the apps that
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: are running that that are running the apps. Literally, yeah,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: they absolutely one control the flow of information. They just do.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Like nothing gets shared on these apps without like the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: main frame supporting it. And there has to be ownership,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, accountability. And Zuckerberg has been
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: for I think what feels like years now, been like
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: in the hot seat and kind of just tossing his
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: hands in the air like well, you know, free market
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: concepts applied to social media and propaganda. I am sick
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: of their very like angel face dump struck. I'm just
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: a young white boy that it doesn't know better. I
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: don't know, I d k. I'm innocent. I'm a cherub.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Don't get mad at me. I just want everyone to
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: participate freely. I don't buy it. Shut up. I mean
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: if you just think about if you when you really
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: know that Facebook was started as a way to rate women.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I mean that tells you everything you need to know
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: about where these people stand when it comes to doing
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: anything morally correct. His bowl cut tells me everything that
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I need to know about his ability to his little
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: wa uttery little frog eyes. I can sit here and
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: say like I hate him. I hate Mark Zuckerberg. Yeah,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: we're gonna We're gonna go back to the Reptilian conspiracy.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: They throw back to the beginning of twenty different Lighter Times.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: It's like Mark Zuckerberg is singlehandedly contributing to the creation
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: of an environment so toxic that only reptilians can survive it. Girl, Yes,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: you said a mouthful there. Yes, I think that's what's
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: happening here. Girl, so bad, I know, speaking speaking of um,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I want to I want I want to plug because
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: since the pandemic or I don't even know, maybe it
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: just a month ago. I don't even know the timeline anymore.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: But I have been learning more about cyber security or
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: doing my best to learn about cybersecurity, and so I
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: wanted to plug. Cyber Collective Org it's woman immigrant owned
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: and they share all these like cybersecurity tips. So if
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: that's something that interests you, if you want to learn
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: how to make your social media you safer. Plug um
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: connecting to public wifis don't do that, is what I learned.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: It's always connecting to Starbucks and coffee Bean. Don't be
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: doing that. Apparently, take your by your own hotspot. Yeah,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: so head that way if that's something that you're interested in.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: God the US is so just say yes. Can I
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: just say? There are places in the world, like in Mexico.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: You can go to Mexico City and all the BLESSI
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: thousands stuff have public WiFi and in the parks and things,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and like in everyone everywhere else besides here, it's like
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: WiFi is just like a given, and here it's like,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: oh no, your WiFi is gonna give your phone a disease.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: It will ruin your life. Don't do it. Don't do it.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: But it's a good resource. Thank you for sharing it. Yeah,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: come bat, we're at the end of that. Hit me today,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: like obviously I know we're in November, but I'm like,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: oh my God, is literally here tomorrow. And that caused
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: a little bit of anxiety because we really have spent
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the majority of the year in this limbo of kind
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: of on lockdown, kind of not really. People are still
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: objecting on wearing masks, people are still getting together, and
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: now we're at the holiday season and the bar is
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: so low that we just want a presidential leader to
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: be able to lead. Literally, that is it. Like I
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: don't expect, you know, President Biden to come in and like, Okay,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: it's all over, everything is normal again. Absolutely not, And
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I think to expect that is somewhat naive, But I
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: do expect some type of leadership, right that there will
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: be a policy implemented and a plan event it as well.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm I'm just you know, trying to write
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: out the rest of as safely as possible. Agreed, I
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: agree completely right out the year. Make it to next
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: year hopefully better off, right, better off next year than
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: we have been this year, and I think that having
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: a shift in leadership might at the very least boost
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: some morale, you know what I mean. UM, And I
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: think we'll take whatever wins we can get at this point.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: But locally, we had a really big win with Measure J.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Measure J passed and that is um a piece of
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: legislation that promises a big chunk of money to go
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: into resources services for historically marginalized and under resourced communities
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: of color in l A. And um, it's money that
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: is guarantee ead like for for a lifetime, and the
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: city council like can't cut it or get rid of it. Uh.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: We spoke with Fernandez, who was one of the basically
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the architects of Measure J, who was really working on
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: it and pushing it and getting it on the ballot
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and uh, really using the power of social media and
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: like local media outlets not unlike look at the Right
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: to get the word out. And the sheriffs put a
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: lot of money into fighting against Measure J, with a
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: lot of really like melodramatic like TV ads and things
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: showing like helicopters on fire, like all emergency services are
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: going to be destroyed, and just defunct forever um, but
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: it's still one even in spite of like you know,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: big money from the sheriffs. So that's that was an
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: exciting local victory. Um. I was happy to see that happened. Yeah. Additionally,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: a local victory for l A was District Attorney Gascon
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: being elected and Jackie Lacy is now out, and that
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: was a really big win and definitely all credit to
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the Black Lives Matter movement and chapter that really put
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: pressure on gascone to hold l A p D accountable,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: to hold police police officers accountable. And also that we're
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: protesting outside of Jackie Lacy's house for months, you know,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: and we're at her office and we had their list
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: of demands. So that's definitely a big win for l
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: A as well. Yeah. Absolutely, And as far as Jackie
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Lacy goes, you know, I also I am just let's
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: see what the new d A does, because the position
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: of d A itself is not like a position that
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: is designed with like the purposes of liberation and like
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: racial justice and mind. So we'll see what a new
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: person does in the office. But the office itself is
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: very tainted in this city, especially when it comes to
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the lack of prosecution, the lack of prosecuting killer cops
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: and police officers, l apt officers who basically terrorize black
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and brown and homeless people in l A and have
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: been doing so for years. Um. I mean, like you know,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Roddy King happened in l A. Like this is historically
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: a bad place as far as bringing justice against police. Absolutely,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I mean Georgia Gascon is a former police officer, like
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: he was a chief deputy I believe so, or chief
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: of police and so yeah, it goes without saying that.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: There is definitely pause. People are not like super people
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: are excited in the sense that Jackie Lacy was voted out.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: But people of course are gonna have I think, have
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: their guard up about Gascon and basically are going to
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: see if he's gonna walk the talk. Yes. My other
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: question with regards to elections is where is GARCETI gonna
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: be and when is he is he gonna Is he
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: gonna bounce and go join the Biden cabinet? And what's
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: that handover going to be like? And who does he
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: hand us over to and how does that happen? And
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: is it a good thing for us? Is it a
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: bad thing? For us because we're still in a pandemic
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: and everything is trash, Like it's just how is it
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: gonna work? I personally think he's gonna leave. I think
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: he's gonna leave, and I think that that could be
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: a good thing because he has really mishandled homelessness in
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: l A County and there's that, you know, But then
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: we're also in a pandemic and so it's like it's
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: part of it is like okay, cool, good riddance, Like
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: you didn't really lead l A. There were some good things,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: there were some not you know, negative things, but then
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: also you're leaving in the middle of a pandemic and
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: what a mess. You're leaving a mess, leaving a humongous mess,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: and like it's going to take so long to clean
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: it up. Like this is something that's gonna be going
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: to be recovering from this forever. Stress, uh stress, indeed stress.
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• 32:11
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• 32:15
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