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ICE operations in Hays County lead to detainment, injury · Austin Signal

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The person was detained last week by
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federal immigration and customs
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enforcement officers in Kyle.
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The man had to be transported to the
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hospital, according to local police,
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and the KUT newsroom is working to
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get more details on the story.
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We're going to share the latest
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updates.
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And an attorney for the student who
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was deported while flying back to
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Austin for a holiday says the
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federal government admitted it
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violated a court order when it
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sent her to Honduras.
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Any Lopez-Vellosa, an Austin-raised
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student at Babson College outside of
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Boston was detained after trying to
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fly home before Thanksgiving.
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We're gonna have more about her
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story and her status on today's
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show.
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The Austin Signal is a production
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of KUT News, hosted by
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Jerry Quijano.
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And it's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Day. We're gonna hear from him.
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That's coming up on Austin Signal.
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This is Austin Signal, it's January
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Jr.
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Day. Thanks for spending part of it
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Austin's long-delayed light rail
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Let's get into today's show.
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Last Thursday, immigration and
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customs enforcement operations were
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conducted in the cities of Kyle and
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Buda. With one person and Kyle being
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taken to the hospital after their
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encounter with ICE officers.
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Since then, there have been several
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protests in the area against these
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operations.
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For more about what's been going on,
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we're speaking with Travis County
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reporter, Katy McAfee.
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Katy, thanks for coming on the show.
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Thanks for having me on Jerry.
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So let's get people caught up
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to speed on Friday.
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KUT News reported about a man who
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was detained by ICE and Kyle.
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Tell us the story.
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Yeah, so on Thursday, the
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Kyle Police Department released a
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statement saying a man was detained
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by ICE in the city and had to
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be sent to the hospital.
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I asked Hays County Judge Ruben
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Becerra about it, and these
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are his words. He said that the man
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was beat up by ICE and
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that he was bleeding from his face.
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We also obtained a video from a
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woman who was near the incident on
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Thursday morning.
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And just to be clear, we are still
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working on independently verifying
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that this video is of the same
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incident that we're talking about.
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And in that video, you can see three
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ICE agents on top of the one
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man, and they are all coming out
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of an unmarked car.
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Okay, but you said you haven't been
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able yet to verify that with local
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law enforcement.
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That's correct, but the emails have
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been sent.
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Okay, okay.
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So tell us that we're speaking about
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this one incident.
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What other ice activity has been
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going on in Hays County that we know
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about?
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Yeah, so we know that ICE was
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active in Buda, too.
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Buda city officials announced early
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Thursday morning that ICE intended
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to park at the city hall,
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but Buda officials asked them to
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park somewhere else.
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And in this announcement, they said
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that they are not involved in the
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operation at all.
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Other than that, Buda City officials
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wouldn't confirm what vehicle
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ICE is operating out of.
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But again, I talked to Judge Ruben
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Becerra about it, and he said they
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are out of a large, white,
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unmarked van.
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Okay, it seems Judge Ruben
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Becerra has been pretty outspoken
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since these operations have been
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going on.
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You said a few things there.
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What else have you heard from him?
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And what else have heard from Hays
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County officials about these
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operations?
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Yeah, Judge Becerra has definitely
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been among the more forthcoming
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officials in Hayes County about
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what's going on.
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I spoke with him on Friday about
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what happened.
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And a big takeaway from that
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conversation was he said he
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supports local law enforcement,
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but does not at all agree with how
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ICE is operating in the county.
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Here's a quote from that interview.
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He said, they are not trained in
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de-escalation.
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They are not trained on how to take
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someone down.
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They're not trained as we would
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expect them to be.
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They're being run through like if it
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was the draft and we were in
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Vietnam.
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What have you heard from local
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activist groups in Hayes County?
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Yeah, local groups and, you know,
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even just people in the neighborhood
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have been very outspoken about
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what's happening.
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Even Friday morning, right after
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this incident that we've been
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reporting on happened, there were
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people protesting ICE at a busy
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intersection.
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And then yesterday,
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orgAnyzation Mano Amiga, they held a
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protest that more than 100 people
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ended up showing out to.
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And local activists, the message
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that they've really been pushing was
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for people to know their rights.
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And another thing they've been
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saying a lot is telling people
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to use their phones to protect
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them and record any ice activity
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they see.
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The KUT newsroom has been working to
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bring coverage on these protests
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both on the website kut.org
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as well as our social media
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channels.
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I'm guessing that these protests are
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likely to continue.
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What do we know so far about protest
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activity this week in Hayes County
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or even here in Austin?
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Yeah, definitely.
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We do know about a protest here
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in Austin happening tomorrow
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afternoon, and I believe there is
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another one that will be led by the
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Party of Socialism and Liberation.
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That one's scheduled on Friday, and
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we're keeping an eye out for any
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others.
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Okay well speaking of keeping an eye
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out, there's a lot transpiring
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in the story again.
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The incident happened Friday, we
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first reported on, excuse me, the
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incident happened on Thursday.
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We first reported about it on
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Friday.
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What else are you following?
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What else is the KUT News following,
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KUT newsroom following in regards
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to this story?
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Yeah, we're definitely not done
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covering the story.
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There's a lot to follow up on.
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We need to follow-up on the status
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of the man who was detained and
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hospitalized by ICE on Thursday
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morning.
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We're asking the Sheriff's
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Department about any others who were
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detained over the weekend.
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And another thing I'm trying to find
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out is if ICE is still stationed in
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Hays County or where else in central
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Texas they might be.
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Okay well we have been speaking with
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Travis County reporter Katy McAfee
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again.
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KUT Newsroom has been doing coverage
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online on our website kut.org
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on the KUT app and on our
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social media channels and I'm sure
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that will continue to be the case.
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We had some great help from our
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multimedia team this weekend as
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well as Katy. You can find more of
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her reporting at kut
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dot org and we're going to have a
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link in the podcast show notes as
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well. Katy thanks for coming on the
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show.
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Thanks for having me on Jury.
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19-Year-old Any Lucia Lopez
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Bellosa fled Honduras with her
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mother when she was 7 years old.
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She grew up in Austin, where her
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parents still live, and while
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attending her fall semester of
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college in Boston, tried to surprise
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them with a visit for Thanksgiving.
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She was arrested by ICE officials at
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the airport, and despite a court
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order, flown to Texas, then deported
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within a span of 48 hours.
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Now, the U.S.
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Government is admitting it made a
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mistake by violating that court
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order. For more, we are
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talking with KUT's government
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accountability reporter, Andrew
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Weber. Andrew, thanks for coming on
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the show.
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Of course. Thanks, sir.
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So, where did this apology happen?
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Simply happened in federal court
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and that's important because this
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is a case that has drawn a lot of
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attention nationally and, um,
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from, I will, I will note from like
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a lot bipartisan lawmakers,
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lawmakers on both sides of the aisle
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at state and federal levels have
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come out and, and sort of questioned
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why Lopez Belloza was, was
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detained and deported.
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And we had you on the show talking,
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I guess it was probably last
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month, and we heard a little
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bit then from Any's lawyer, what was
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the lawyer's reaction to the
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apology?
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Yeah, her attorney, Todd Pomerleau,
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was very surprised by this.
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These are sorts of cases that,
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you know, don't get a lot of this,
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like, sort of attention, uh,
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and certainly this, in
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this sort of political climate, um,
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with ICE, you know, going into
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cities in which cities, uh city
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officials don't want them.
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He was surprised to hear that.
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Attorneys for the federal government
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were basically lying
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prostrate before the judge and
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saying, we're sorry.
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They can say yes, they can say no.
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They've said sorry.
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They didn't go to court the other
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day and be like, nope, dismiss the
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case. We're not saying we're sorry.
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They could have taken that approach
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and I'm gonna recognize it for what
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it is. It's an act of contrition
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and I am gonna assume good faith.
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Before this apology, I wasn't
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assuming good faith
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That was a reaction from her lawyer,
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Todd Pomerleau.
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Again, Any also had a reaction to
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that apology. Here she is in an
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interview with CNN.
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Hearing that they have apologized
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to the mistake that they've made,
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I accept their apologies and I hope
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that based on this apology I'm
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able to return back to my studies
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and also to be home with
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my parents.
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Andrew, what do we know about where
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Any is right now?
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We know that she's in Honduras.
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Our previous reporting, the last
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time I checked with Todd Palmerlo,
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he said that she was with her
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grandparents.
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Now this is not the first time it
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has been reported that ICE violates
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a judicial order.
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Does this apology mean that we
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are likely to see less mistakes like
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this in the future?
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That's a good question.
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And I don't have an immediate answer
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for it in, in this motion that
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they filed, they apologized,
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which is really kind of an
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administrative apology.
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It's not, you know, obviously it's
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not a direct apology to Lopez
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Belloza.
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It's an apology to her attorney,
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Todd Palmerlo, but they,
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they basically pinned all of this on
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an employee who didn't know
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that there was this order to
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keep on a, in the
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country for at least 72 hours.
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So I don't really think that there's
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necessarily any broad, you know,
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sort of sweeping impact
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as it relates to this apology, but
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it does sort of tee up
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this case going forward.
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And specifically, Todd, the
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attorney, Todd Pomelo, filed a
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motion Friday, right
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after I talked to him, and he laid
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out how this could go forward.
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But the remedy they were proposing
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is inadequate.
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They were saying, look, we retrained
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our staff at ICE and what to do with
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a court order.
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I mean, okay, that's
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prospective harm, right?
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You're fixing,
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you know, hopefully there's another,
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there's not another Annie Lopez that
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gets illegally deported in the
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future. That's great.
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You did something remedial to fix
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future problems.
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What about what you did to her?
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And that's really where we're at
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right now. And the judge, and I
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think the judge recognized this too,
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because he was kind of like, look
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she's a college student, she got a
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full ride.
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You know, is this still available?
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Okay, Andrew, last question.
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You mentioned teeing up the case.
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Where does Any's case go from
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here? Does the apology affect it
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in any way?
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The apology does affect it in that
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the federal government is not going
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to be held in contemptive court,
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which is obviously, you
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know, good for their argument.
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But within that motion that
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Todd filed, that Todd Pomerleau
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filed, I should say, he laid
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out a couple of options, one of
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which would be she can return to the
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U.S. And she would be under sort
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of supervision, sort of like parole.
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Another would be that she
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is allowed to return to country
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while her application for a green
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card is being processed.
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And she can go back to school and
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back to her life.
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All right, we have been speaking
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with KUT's government accountability
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reporter, Andrew Weber, you can find
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his story at kut.org.
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And again, we'll have more in our
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podcast show notes.
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Andrew, thanks for coming on the
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show. Thank you, Jerry.
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It is Martin Luther King Jr.
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Day, and here in Austin the city
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marked the return of the annual MLK
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Day March.
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That march was canceled the last
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couple of years because of inclement
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weather.
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And though the day is still chilly,
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the sun was shining as thousands of
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marchers gathered at the Capitol to
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start their journey to Houston
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Tillotson University.
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Here is Joya Hayes, Capitol March
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coordinator with the Austin Area
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Heritage Council, and puts on the
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event.
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Dr. King believed that progress
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begins when ordinary
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people come together with peaceful,
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respectful ways to serve their
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communities and stand up for
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human dignity.
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This day is not just about what's
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going wrong.
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This is not a day to just
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look at the politics of America.
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This is a day for us to have shared
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values, kindness,
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service, unity and hope.
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Participating in this march and
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rally is a way to reflect those
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values, to show up for
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one another and to reaffirm
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the positive change that
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starts when we choose to walk
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forward together.
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The festival portion of the event
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goes until 4pm today at
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Houston Tillotson University.
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We're going to have more about MLK
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Day coming up after this break.
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You're listening to Austin Signal.
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This is Austin Signal.
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Thank you for spending part of your
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Monday.
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Again, it is Martin Luther King Jr.
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Day. And we wanted to celebrate
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with a little something special to
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wrap up today's episode.
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So we needed the help of
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the one and only John L.
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Hanson Jr.
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He is the host of the podcast
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in Black America produced right
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here at KUT KUTX Studios.
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John has a little remembrance and a
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little audio from Dr. King himself.
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Let's pass it on over to John.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Is considered by many as the father
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of the civil rights movement.
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Born on Tuesday, January 15,
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1929 at the family home
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in Atlanta, Georgia.
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He was christened Michael Luther
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King, but in 1934,
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Daddy King changed his name after
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young Martin experienced racial
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prejudice.
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In 1944, at the age of 15,
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he graduated high school and entered
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Morehouse College in Atlanta.
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With intention on becoming a medical
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doctor, but changed his mind
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in his junior year.
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In April 1948, King received
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his bachelor's degree in sociology
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at Intercrojitheological
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Seminary in Chester, PennsylvAnya.
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In May 1951, he graduated
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with a bachelor's of divinity degree
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and as valedictorian and
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student body president.
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In 1955, he earned his
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doctorate in systematic theology
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from Boston University.
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In spring 1963,
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King's nonviolent tactics were put
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to their most severe test in
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Birmingham, Alabama during a
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mass protest for fair hiring
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practices and the desegregation
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of department stores.
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Police brutality used against the
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march had dramatized the plight of
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African Americans to the nation at
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large with enormous impact.
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King and others were arrested
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but his voice was not silent.
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While in his cell, he read a
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published statement by eight Alabama
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clergymen that criticized his
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activities as untimely and
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unwise.
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On the margins of the newspaper, he
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composed his classic reply letter
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from a Birmingham jail to
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refute his critics.
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In your statement, you assert that
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our actions, even though
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peaceful, must be condemned
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because they precipitate
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violence.
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But is this a logical assertion?
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Isn't this like condemning a robbed
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man?
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Because his possession of money
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precipitated the evil act of
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robbery? Isn't is like condeming
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Socrates because his
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unswerving commitment to truth
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and his philosophical
15:55
inquiries precipitated
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the act by the misguided
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populace in which they made
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him drink hemlock,
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isn't this like condemning Jesus
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because his unique God consciousness
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and never ceasing devotion
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to God's will precipitated
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the evil act of crucifixion?
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More and more, I feel
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that the people of ill will
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have used time much more
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effectively than have
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the people good will.
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We will have to repent in this
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generation.
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Not merely for the hateful
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words and actions of
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the bad people but
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for the appalling silence of
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the good people.
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Now is the time to
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make real the promise of democracy
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and transform our
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pending national elegy
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into a creative psalm
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of brotherhood.
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Now is time to
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lift our national policy from
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the quicksand of racial injustice
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to the solid rock.
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Of human dignity.
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I have no fear about the outcome
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of our struggle in Birmingham,
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even if our motives are
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at present misunderstood.
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We will reach the goal of freedom in
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Birmingham and all over the nation,
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because the goal in America is
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freedom.
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Abused and scorned though we
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may be, our
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destiny is tied up
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with America's destiny.
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Before the pilgrims landed
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at Plymouth, we were here.
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Before the pen of Jefferson etched
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the majestic words of the
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Declaration of Independence across
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the pages of history we were
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here.
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For more than two centuries our
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forebears labored in this country
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without wages.
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They made cotton king,
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they built the homes of their
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masters, while suffering
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gross injustice and shameful
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humiliation.
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And yet out of a bottomless
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vitality, they continued
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to thrive and develop.
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If the inexpressible cruelties
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of slavery could not
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stop us, the opposition
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we now face will
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surely fail.
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We will win our freedom because
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the sacred heritage of our nation
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and the eternal will
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of the almighty God
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are embodied in
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our echoing demands.
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Never before have I written so
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long a letter.
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I'm afraid it is much too long
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to take your precious time.
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I can assure you that it would have
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been much shorter if I
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had been writing from a comfortable
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desk. But what else can one do
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when he is alone in a narrow jail
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cell other than write
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long letters, think
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long thoughts, and pray long
18:42
prayers.
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If I have said anything in this
18:45
letter that overstates the truth and
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indicates an unreasonable
18:49
impatience, I beg you
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to forgive me.
18:52
If I've said anything
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that understates the truth
18:56
and indicates my having a
18:58
patience that allows me to
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settle for anything less than
19:01
brotherhood, I beg God
19:03
to forgive me.
19:05
I hope this letter finds you
19:07
strong in the faith.
19:09
I also hope that circumstances
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will soon make it possible for
19:13
me to meet each of you, not
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as an integrationist or as a
19:17
civil rights leader, but as
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a fellow clergyman and
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a Christian brother.
19:22
Let us all hope that the dark clouds
19:24
of racial prejudice will
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soon pass away, and
19:28
the deep fog of misunderstanding
19:30
will be lifted from our
19:32
fear-drenched communities,
19:34
and in some not too distant
19:35
tomorrow, the radiant stars
19:38
of love and brotherhood will
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shine over our great nation
19:42
with all their scintillating
19:44
beauty.
19:45
Yours for the cause of peace and
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brother-hood, Martin Luther King,
19:49
Jr.
19:50
In 1957 in New Orleans
19:52
seeking to build upon the success of
19:54
the Montgomery Bus Boycott with
19:56
the hope of upgrading the status of
19:58
southern blacks and America's poor,
20:00
King summed together a number of
20:01
black leaders to lay the foundation
20:03
for the orgAnyzation now known
20:05
as the Southern Christian Leadership
20:06
Conference, SCLC.
20:09
King was elected its first president
20:11
and he soon began helping other
20:12
communities orgAnyze their own
20:14
protest against discrimination.
20:16
The Honorable Andrew Young, former
20:18
Mayor of Atlanta and U.S.
20:20
Ambassador, was one of King's most
20:21
trusted advisors.
20:22
Looking back on it, we think of
20:24
those as the best days of our lives.
20:26
Actually at the time it was,
20:29
we really didn't know what we were
20:30
doing, we knew things were wrong
20:33
and that somebody had to
20:34
do something about it and we just
20:36
stumbled along from one thing to the
20:38
other until we found a way to make
20:39
it work.
20:41
And fortunately most of us had
20:43
read a lot about India and
20:46
we understood some of the on violent
20:48
methods of Gandhi.
20:49
And we just experimented until
20:51
we found out how to orgAnyze people.
20:53
Nobody was trained as an orgAnyzer.
20:55
We knew the black community.
20:58
We knew cities that we were working
21:00
in fairly well.
21:02
And we learned gradually over
21:04
a period of time how to get things
21:06
done. What type of impact did the
21:07
late Dr. Martin Luther King have on
21:09
you at that time?
21:10
Well, Martin was an
21:12
amazing young man.
21:14
He had been sort of thrust in the
21:16
leadership. He never really wanted
21:18
it. And yet he couldn't get
21:20
away from it.
21:21
And he was essentially trying
21:23
to do something for other people.
21:25
That kind of dedication and
21:27
the sort of things that he said
21:29
matter of factly.
21:30
If a person hadn't found something
21:32
that they're willing to die for,
21:33
they're probably not fit to live
21:34
anyway.
21:35
You know, somebody dropped that on
21:37
you in a joking kind of friendly
21:38
conversation.
21:39
It makes you think, you know, what
21:40
is it that I'm willing to died for?
21:43
And you begin to
21:44
think about your life and think
21:46
about other people in a new way.
21:48
I mean, he was amazing that all of
21:50
the things that he did, and
21:52
he never lived to be 40 years old,
21:54
and yet in the midst of it all, he
21:56
was still privately
21:58
a very easygoing,
22:02
a friendly, joking, clowning,
22:04
you know, lovable guy.
22:07
You can find the full episode of
22:09
In Black America with more speeches
22:11
from Dr. King wherever you
22:13
listen to your podcasts.
22:16
And that is it for today's show.
22:18
Thank you for kicking off the week
22:19
here with us on Austin Signal.
22:22
If you have the day off, we hope
22:23
you're enjoying yourself out there.
22:25
And if you're working like us today,
22:26
you got this. You are one
22:28
minute closer to getting home.
22:31
Thank you to Katy McAfee, Andrew
22:32
Weber, Luz Moreno Lozano.
22:34
And John L.
22:35
Hanson Jr.
22:36
For making today's episode a
22:38
reality.
22:38
And a special shout out to KUT
22:40
multimedia journalists, Laurie
22:42
Ann Willett and Patricia Lim for
22:43
their coverage of the protest this
22:45
weekend. You can see their work
22:47
on our social media channels.
22:50
Rayna Sevilla is Austin Signals
22:52
technical director, and Kristen
22:54
Cabrera is the
22:56
show's managing producer.
22:58
I'm Jerry Quijano, I'll keep trying
23:00
to talk better.
23:01
We'll talk to you tomorrow.
23:03
Have a great day, thanks for tuning
23:04
in.