WEBVTT - See the People Not the Papers | Angela Rye SoloPod 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.720 Native Landpod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:10.520 Reason Choice Media. Welcome Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome Home. 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.040 Everybody is his Native Lampod. I'm your host, Angela Raie. 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.800 I am with you all today to talk about some 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:21.479 really important pressing issues. I want to just spend a 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:25.120 little time talking to folks in my community about our 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:31.040 posture around immigration. We are witnessing people being deported in 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:36.360 public spectacles. People are being arrested and put on buses, 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.360 put on planes, deported to places that they did not 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:43.720 once call home. One of the most recent examples is 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:49.160 about a man named kilmar Abrago Garcia. And this man 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:54.720 was deported, uh. Nobody knew what happened or why he 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:59.360 was said to have been a gang member, and the 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:04.080 Trump A Minute stration is fighting to prevent him from 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:09.160 being brought back from an Ol Salvador prison. And the 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.479 kinds of things that they're saying in response to the 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:19.560 Supreme Court ruling around kill mar Abrego Garcia's return to 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:24.679 the United States is insane. There's a court document that 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:29.399 was filed. This is the defendant's response to plaintiff's motion 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:31.720 for additional relief and one of the things that is 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.560 listed here is that as they say that the court 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.399 should deny the plainiff's request, the planeff would be kill 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:42.800 mar Abrego Garcia for further relief, because the relief is 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:47.560 inconsistent with the Supreme Court's instruction requiring this court to 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:52.240 respect the President's article to authority to manage foreign policy. 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:55.920 So they are making the claim that you can deport 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.960 someone on US soil who has not done any of 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.920 the things that you alley, You wrongfully targeinated him, targeted him, 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:07.280 you wrongfully deport him, but he should stay in custody 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.160 in our Salvador and he should not be returned because 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.359 it is an affront to the president's foreign policy powers. 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.360 If there was ever a time to think back to 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:22.720 the podcast where we talked about the constitutional crisis that 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.519 is upon us, the constitutional crisis that we are now 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.880 living in, this is now. That is what is happening 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.880 right now. It's not a court decision away. They got 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.799 to the Supreme Court and the president and his cronies 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:42.440 are testing whether or not they could actually overrule the 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.520 Supreme Court. They don't have to comply, and this is 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.960 what happens when you put someone in the White House 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:53.200 who was alleged to have ninety one felonies. When you 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.320 get a crook, you get crooked behavior. So you're curious 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.560 about why someone with all. 0:02:58.440 --> 0:02:59.079 Of these. 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.800 We have to say alleged because they're litigious even though 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:07.880 they don't follow core orders, but alleged felonies, why they 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:11.520 would break the law. Why do you think a fela 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:15.520 gonna break the law? Like, we have to buy into 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.840 the fact that when someone shows us who they are, 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:21.400 we've got to believe them. So that's the first thing 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.639 I want to put on your radar. The second thing 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:30.720 I want to put on your radar is Madawi most 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:35.400 of Madawi is an organizer, a pro palac Citian organizer 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:41.000 who supported demonstrations last year at Columbia University. According to 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:45.560 The New York Times, he was detained on Monday. He 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:51.640 was detained while at an immigration meeting to secure his citizenship. 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:56.400 This man has been a resident of Vermont for ten years. 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:01.880 While he was at his citizenship meaning meeting, he was 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.720 arrested or detained by ice. Right, this is the kind 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.480 of new world we're living in. This is most In 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:13.920 Madawi Again, his mother's his lawyers, his sister nobody could 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:19.880 find him. After he was detained in Colchester, Vermont, his 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.200 lawyers requested a tro which is a temporary restraining order 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:27.000 to prevent this government, if that's what we're gonna call 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:31.600 this thing, this fascist regime, from sending him anywhere. And 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:37.240 here's the thing. I want us to examine why this 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:41.240 is so problematic. A lot of us in my community 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.800 believe that an immigration problem is not our collective problem. 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.920 That could not be further from the truth, because at 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:53.400 some point or another, at some point or another, these 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.600 folks are gonna come knocking at your door. Let's roll 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.680 the clip of the immigration attorney. This happened to the. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.200 Really care who they're trying to deport or ask to 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:04.520 leave the United States. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:08.720 When Massachusetts resident Nicole Mitcerroni received this email on Friday 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.719 telling her to leave the country, she was baffled. 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.880 At first. I thought it was for a clients, but 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.440 I looked really closely and the only name on the 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.280 email was mine. Said that my parole status had been 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.240 terminated and I should leave the country within seven days. 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.520 But the forty year old is a US citizen. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.800 I think it's most likely a mistake and they're just 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.680 casting a really wide net, but it's a little concerning 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:32.880 that these are going out to US citizens. 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.440 Mitcarroni is an immigration attorney working with many clients facing 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:40.200 possible deportation issues, so her name and email are on 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.960 a lot of paperwork and a statement. A senior Department 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.279 of Homeland Security official told US Customs and Border Protection 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:50.240 is issuing notices terminating parole for individuals who do not 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.760 have lawful status to remain. If a non personal email, 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:57.719 such as an American citizen contact, was provided by the alien, 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:00.960 notices may have been sent to un tended recipient. 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.320 I think it's really scary that this is going on. 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.480 It says that they're not being very careful. I think 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.960 it's a scare tactic. I think they want people afraid 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:08.640 of immigration. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.880 Yeah, so here's the thing, and Nicole, I want to 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.679 just acknowledge you and thank you for your courageous work 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:20.040 in this time. It's a really dangerous, challenging, overwhelming time 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.000 to be an immigration law So Nicole, who is based 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.320 in Boston, received an email that says it is time 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.960 for you to leave the United States. If you do 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.520 not depart the United States immediately, you will be subject 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:37.720 to potential law enforcement actions that will result in your 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:41.400 removal from the United States. Let me tell you all 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.440 why this is a problem to me. I was recently 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.240 on a television program and I said some things that 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.760 people did not like. Their immediate response to me on 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:55.040 social media platforms, particularly on Twitter, was if I hate 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.440 it here so much, I should leave right. And so, 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:03.320 anyone who is working to protect people's First Amendment rights, 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.679 or their Fourteenth Amendment protections, or their their Second Amendment rights, 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.200 or their Fifth Amendment rights. Anyone who is opposed to 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:15.160 what this administration is putting forth is being threatened. Normally, 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:20.000 those threats come from Twitter trolls. Now the Twitter trolls 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.640 have taken residents in the Trump administration. That is what 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.720 we're dealing with. So why I started where I started 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.680 with the two people who have, for all intents and purposes, 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.480 been disappeared. That many other folks who we've seen be detained, 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:39.000 regardless of their background, Palestinian or Arab American, as someone 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:44.000 who is a Latino. Right, at some point, black folks, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.160 white folks, it's going to come knocking at your door. 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.320 Nicole is an example of that. Sure they can say 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.160 it was a mistake, but you. We all would be 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.480 foolish if we don't believe that this scare tactic is 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.080 by design, and it's something that we've got to be 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.840 paying attention to. When you get an email that says 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:06.200 you should immediately leave the country, the country where the 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.440 only country that you've known to call home, not only 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.160 is that scary and intimidating, I don't think it's by 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.680 mistake that they would have sent it to an immigration attorney. 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:20.640 So now I want to just tell you about why 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.800 I think we have to tap into our humanity in 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.160 this moment. I'm sure there are people at home who 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.520 are watching, who are saying, you know, I would love 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.920 to care about what's happening in immigration, but I'm just 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.160 trying to make ends me. I just am trying to 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.680 make sure I have enough money to pay my light bill. 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:37.720 I'm just trying to make sure I can afford these 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.720 expensive ass eggs. I'm just trying to make sure I 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.840 can buy gas from my car. I'm just trying to 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.480 make sure I can buy clothes for my kids. I'm 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.080 just trying to make sure I can pay my ties 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:51.000 at my church. Whatever your set of circumstances are, there 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:55.760 is something that binds us all together. There's blood that 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:59.680 runs through our veins. Right we wake up in the morning, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.240 we blink, hopefully, we can move our fingers if we 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.240 have the activity of our limbs. We can hear, if 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:10.040 we have the ability to hear, smell, see taste, if 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:14.600 we have those abilities. But if we are breathing, whether 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:19.080 it's buy an assisted device or not, humanity, that is 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:24.000 the common thing that binds us all together in this 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.880 moment where people are feeling attacked on every side, We've 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.880 got to lead with our humanity. We've got to lead 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:37.520 with our humanity because the moment we prefer ourselves over 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.960 someone else, the moment their struggle, their trial, their issue 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.559 doesn't matter to us. We are essentially doing the same 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.240 thing that I don't know if you all have ever 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:50.400 seen someone trip and fall, right, just so, say you're 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:55.160 outside and you see someone trip and fall. Imagine the 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.040 number of people that stop to say, hey, are you okay? 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.280 Can I help you up? Is there anything you need? 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.840 Versus the person that just walks by. And I'm thinking 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.760 about the parable in the Bible of the Good Samaritan, right, 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:11.560 the person that just walks by. And then finally there's 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.800 that one person that stops to say, are you okay? 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.679 We have to be in an era, even with fascism 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.680 in the White House, We've got to be in an 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.840 arrow where we stop to say, but are you okay? 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:29.400 What do you need? How can I help? If you're 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:33.520 too busy, if you're too overwhelmed to just say are 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.760 you okay? We've got some we got to redoce some 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.199 things because we cannot leave our humanity at the door 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.880 when people are suffering like this, because how would we 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.280 want someone to show up for us? I think my 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:50.520 trauma response in this life is often overperforming and doing 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.960 because I just want somebody to do that for me. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.360 I want to make sure that in my darkest moment, 0:10:56.679 --> 0:11:00.280 in my most challenging time, I'm not by myself, else 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.360 that I can stand together with other human beings who 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.320 have the same need or a different one, to pitch 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.720 in and say are you okay? Or how can I help? 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.400 So I'm telling you all this, I'm starting to tear 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.520 up because I'm thinking about these images. I want to 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.760 put up the images from the El Salvador in prison 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.840 so we can look at something that looks very familiar 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.360 to that in history. We can put that image up 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:43.920 there's an image of men being brought into prison, being tied, 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:48.559 their hands being tied behind their backs, their legs overlapping 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:53.800 with one another, their faces in mass in masks, with 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.880 their faces buried into the small of the back of 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:00.760 their neighbor. And there are rows and rows and rows 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:04.400 of these men whose heads have been shaved. And it 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:09.360 reminds me of something very very traumatic in my own ancestry, 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:15.199 and that is the image of people who were forced 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:19.079 out of their homes, snatched from their loved ones, from 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:23.280 the continent, the motherland, Africa. And so when you look 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.160 at this image of the belly of a slave ship 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:32.080 and you think about the image of these men who 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.880 are shackled together the same way our ancestors were shackled together. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.800 When we say never again, that never again can't just 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.520 be about black people, That never again has to be 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:49.600 about all people. Nobody deserves to be treated like that nobody. 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.320 And so I would ask us to dig deep, to 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:56.240 think about what we need to be able to lean 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.679 into these moments, to stretch ourselves to be there for 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.679 our neighbors. The one who helps us to check out 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:06.120 our groceries at the grocery store, the one who sits 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.920 next to us in our places of worship, the one 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:14.560 who teaches in our classrooms for our K through twelve students, 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.079 or the ones who might be the teacher's assistant at 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:21.320 our college was our favorite professor. I want us to 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:25.040 think about the elder who's taking care of his aging life. 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:27.960 I want us to think about the cancer patient that 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.839 wouldn't have access to resources if we don't lean into 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:35.440 our humanity. Y'all, we got to do different. We know better. 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.880 We cannot turn a blind eye to this crisis. I 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.720 don't care who you voted for. You know this is 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.560 not right. And for the church leaders who continue to 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.760 amplify this man and pray for this man and lift 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.880 him up, I'm noting not saying pray for his mental 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.480 health and his state of mind, like, please pray for 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.800 that right. Please pray that God visits him in his 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.760 sleep and does not let him rest until he does 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:04.120 right by humanity. That should be the prayer. But I 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.440 just would ask our church leaders to think about the 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.760 Bible you read and the God you serve, and if 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.640 this is really it right when you think about for 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.880 those who are read letter Christians, you got the red 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.120 letter Bible, the King James version or the New King 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.240 James version, whatever you have, the red letters, because you 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.400 need to know for a fact what Jesus said in 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.800 the New Testament. I want you to find the places 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:31.520 where Jesus ever recommended it behavior like this, or do 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:35.000 you think about the prayer, the beatitudes, where the beattitudes 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.640 where he talks about how we should treat our neighbor, 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.800 how we should love our neighbor, how we should visit 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:45.960 the sick and feed the hungry. Right, that is the 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:50.080 God I know. And so this version of God I 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:56.359 don't recognize. If you're telling me that this is Christianity 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:00.560 embodied in the federal government, I don't know that Christiananity. 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.600 That's not the Christianity that I'm a part of. That's 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:10.000 the Christianity of overseers and plantation owners and enslavers. But 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:15.920 that's not the Christianity that I ascribe to. So with that, 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.680 I want to just show you what happens when you 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.280 elect someone who is an aspiring dictator and how they 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:28.000 talk to someone who is an abusive dictator. This is 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:32.160 what happened just the other day when Donald Trump met 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:36.440 with the Al Salvador's president Naive Bikela, and they met 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.440 in the Oval office, and I want you to hear 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:42.640 what Donald Trump has to say about homegrowns. I'd like 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:44.680 to go a step further. I mean, I say I 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:46.520 said it to Pam. I don't know what the laws are. 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.120 We always have to obey the laws. But we also 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:50.480 have homegrown. 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:55.520 Criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.480 on the back of the head with a baseball bat 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:58.680 when they're not looking. 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.320 That are absolute monsters. 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.120 I'd like to include them in the group of people 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:06.400 to get them out of the country. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.880 I'd like to include them in getting them out of 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:13.880 the country. There's another clip where Donald Trump is on 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.600 a hot mic. If we have time to pull it, 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.800 I think would be good. A hot mic talking to 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:23.920 Naive Bikela and he says that he needs to build 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.600 more prisons. He Trump tells Bukel he needs to build 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:33.840 more prisons in El Salvador because they have more people, 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:38.280 the home growns, who they want to deport. Now, I 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:43.640 want to tell you all that that troubles me. I 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.480 don't know if any of you all at home have 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.760 people who are in your family or loved ones or 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.360 friends who are incarcerated, but I do. And when I 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.200 think about who he could be calling the home growns 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.680 with as broad and umbrella as that might be, as 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.520 big of a tent as that might be, our people 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.760 are in direct time's way. So while you turn a 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:08.320 blind eye to this because immigration isn't your problem, or 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:12.639 they're taking your jobs, or they're creating all this violent 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:16.280 upheaval in your community, where you really can't point to 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:18.880 that as a fact completely. I'm not saying there aren't 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:24.280 micro levels of examples of that, but as state governments 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.959 are impacted because they no longer have those tax pay 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.200 dollars to rely upon, or the federal government is impacted 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.040 because they no longer have those dollars to rely upon. 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:37.080 As your homes may not be cleaned anymore, your hotel 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.919 rooms may not be cleaned anymore. There's no one to 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:43.639 pick ripe fruit or vegetables, or there's no one to 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.960 help finish a construction project, or there's no one to 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:52.199 help finish computer code for the latest AI development. I 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.159 want you to think about this moment. I want you 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.919 to think about the times where you turned a blind 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.160 eye because your low was heavy, or because you don't care, 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:04.240 or because there's somebody you've got to be mad at. 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.119 This is the moment where we have to call up 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:11.320 on our humanity and do the right thing, even if 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:16.040 it's hard. That is what is required of us. So 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.440 I'm asking you all to lean into your heart space 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:24.400 and to learn about these people. Kill maar Abrego Garcia, 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:29.960 who the Trump administration is blatantly defying the Supreme Court 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.960 order for to leave him in ol Salvador. I want 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.960 you to think about most Senma Madawi, who was getting 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:40.359 his citizen citizenship, actively sitting there right in that moment 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.359 to get his citizenship. I want you to think about 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.840 everybody else who White America might be afraid of and 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.280 call them homegrowns, and decide that that's reason enough to 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:54.320 deport him, to port him or her. For these folks, right, 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:58.040 I want you to think about Trayvon Martin who was 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.879 shot and killed by a vigilante George Zimmerman because he 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:06.280 would have been deemed a homegrown or Alton Sterling, or 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:10.040 a George Floyd, or a Breonna Taylor, because they would 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:17.720 have been deemed inadequately, inappropriately and wrongfully as homegrowns. These 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.880 are the people who if they were alive to tell it, 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.800 or am nott Arbury if they were alive to tell it, 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.439 because they're relying relying on citizen tips, not fact checking 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:31.800 these things, not ensuring that they have the right person 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:34.520 before they deport them. If they look like a criminal, 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:36.960 if they look like an immigrant, if they have a 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:40.200 bad tattoo or some a tattoo they decide is bad, 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.879 then these are the people that have to go. Is 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.399 that what you want to be associated with? Not for me. 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.480 I want this country to turn a page. It's time 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.800 to turn the page on history and stop being so 0:19:55.000 --> 0:20:01.359 proud of and endorsing this country's racist, evil, treacherous past. 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.800 And by not embracing it, I'm not talking about erasing 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:08.080 history books or getting rid of museums or banning books. 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:12.439 I'm talking about not repeating the same mistakes. And so 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.520 when you look at this picture of these men in 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:19.800 an El Salvadoran prison, and when you look at this 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:23.600 picture of these people on a slave ship and it 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:28.200 doesn't look any different, challenge yourself to say, this cat 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:31.200 happened in the United States and it can't happen anywhere else. 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.479 Challenge yourself to say, even if I don't know this person. 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:39.400 I know they don't deserve this challenge us to do 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:42.359 and be better. That's what time we're on right now, 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:58.919 we come home now. Native Lampard is a production of 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:03.480 iHeartRadio and partnership with Reason Choice Media. 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