Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow, your children's education. Nothing
Speaker 1: is more important. You want them to learn enough to
Speaker 1: do well in the world, but not so much that
Speaker 1: they can win arguments with you. But what are they
Speaker 1: really learning in school? How Madrigal followed this eye opening story.
Speaker 2: Across the country, public education is failing, but in Arizona,
Speaker 2: lawmakers have found the solution to the biggest problem facing
Speaker 2: their schools. Arizona's Governor Jan Brewer just approved of build
Speaker 2: banning ethnic studies classes in public schools, and using this
Speaker 2: new law, the Tucson School Board banned the K through
Speaker 2: twelve Mexican American Studies program. School board member Michael Hicks.
Speaker 3: My concern was a lot of the radical ideas that
Speaker 3: they were teaching in these classes, telling these kids that
Speaker 3: this is their land, the whites took it over, and
Speaker 3: the only way to get out beneath the gringo, which
Speaker 3: is the white man, is by bloodshed.
Speaker 4: When you sat in on these classes, what types THO.
Speaker 3: I chose not to go to any of their classes?
Speaker 3: Why even go? Why even go? I base my thoughts
Speaker 3: on hearsay from others, So I based off of those.
Speaker 2: With powerful evidence, like hearsay. The Tucson School Board had
Speaker 2: little choice but to end the Mexican American Studies program,
Speaker 2: protecting kids from dangerous teachers like Curtis Acosta.
Speaker 5: Our students are much more likely to graduate and go
Speaker 5: to college. Their test scores have improved, and most of all,
Speaker 5: they're excited about education so they can pursue it in
Speaker 5: their future lives.
Speaker 2: And you do that by teaching them to hate white people.
Speaker 5: We don't teach them to hate white people. What we're
Speaker 5: trying to do is provide a more complex version of
Speaker 5: what has happened in our past, so that our students
Speaker 5: are engaged and they can ask themselves critical questions and
Speaker 5: build their own understanding.
Speaker 2: Critical thinking more like critical brainwashing. And it gets worse.
Speaker 3: They would every week go out and buy burritos and
Speaker 3: feed these kids. What No, What that does is that
Speaker 3: builds a more of a bond between the teacher and
Speaker 3: the students.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm loyal to this guy because he bought me burrito.
Speaker 6: Yes, right, you slip your burritos to kids, don't you.
Speaker 5: Why would be giving food to our youths be something
Speaker 5: that frowned upon.
Speaker 6: When the program goes away, the burritos go away.
Speaker 2: That's why these kids are upset.
Speaker 6: No mass burritos.
Speaker 5: It's pretty offensive.
Speaker 2: And now that they've eradicated Mexican American Studies from the schools,
Speaker 2: they can focus on other ethnicities.
Speaker 3: Honestly, this law won't be applied to any other of
Speaker 3: our courses. It was strictly written for one course, which
Speaker 3: is the Mexican American Studies program. And nobody has complained
Speaker 3: about any of the pan Asian or any of the
Speaker 3: other courses that are being taught.
Speaker 2: What about the African American Studies program.
Speaker 3: The African American Studies program is still there. It's not
Speaker 3: teaching the resentment of a race or class of people.
Speaker 4: I'm a black kid.
Speaker 2: Try to teach me about slavery without me feeling resentment
Speaker 2: towards white people.
Speaker 3: How am I going to teach you about slavery?
Speaker 7: Slavery was how did I end up here?
Speaker 3: Slavery was a okay? Now I got to figure out how,
Speaker 3: okay the white man did bring over the African What
Speaker 3: kind of jobs do we do? The jobs that you
Speaker 3: guys did was basically slavery jobs.
Speaker 6: So after we were freed, we got.
Speaker 3: To vote yes, you got well, you didn't get to
Speaker 3: vote until later, and we were equal, almost equal.
Speaker 8: What we were like sort of a half or three fifths.
Speaker 3: My personal perception of it, I would say, you're probably
Speaker 3: a quarter.
Speaker 2: The more he taught me about black history, the more
Speaker 2: I realized Arizona has figured out the right way.
Speaker 4: To teach it.
Speaker 3: We now have a black man as a president. You know,
Speaker 3: Rosa Clark did not take on a gun and go
Speaker 3: on to a bus and hold up everybody.
Speaker 2: Sadly, the peaceful lessons of Rosa Clark are lost on
Speaker 2: the radical reactionaries teaching Mexican American studies.
Speaker 5: I think this is a great country. In some countries,
Speaker 5: I might be actually locked up for teaching the way
Speaker 5: I have, and while in this country, I've just banned
Speaker 5: from doing it.
Speaker 8: I'm very close to getting locked up.
Speaker 2: Until then, Arizona's children can count on professional educators like
Speaker 2: Michael Hicks to protect them. Do you think it'll be
Speaker 2: okay for the school district to have a Mexican American
Speaker 2: studies program when the district is one hundred percent Latino. No,
Speaker 2: But at that point there'll be no white people left.
Speaker 3: Well, if there's if there's no more white people in
Speaker 3: the world than Okay, then you can do what you want.
Speaker 2: Oh, don't worry, mister Hicks. We will and we will.
Speaker 1: How magic older, I got quick question? Are you white?
Speaker 1: If so? Last Friday's Digital May unemployment figures were bad,
Speaker 1: but not minority bad.
Speaker 9: The persistent unemployment you have in the black community fourteen
Speaker 9: percent compared to whites, which is seven percent Latino community
Speaker 9: eleven percent unemployment to whites seven percent?
Speaker 1: Wow, double digit unemployment for blacks and Latinos. That could
Speaker 1: really hurt Obama's chances amongst well, just the Latinos. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know what. Let's be Frank for more on this
Speaker 1: return to senior Latino economic analyst Al Magical, Al, thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us OL. Does eleven percent in the Latino
Speaker 1: community put the Latino community in play for this election?
Speaker 8: I mean it may, but even eleven percent pales in
Speaker 8: comparison to the ninety eight point seven percent unemployment Latinos
Speaker 8: face elsewhere?
Speaker 1: Well ninety eight where right here?
Speaker 8: John, show business.
Speaker 2: Television unit is.
Speaker 1: Your Latino and you have a job in show business?
Speaker 8: Yes, I have the job, John, do me a favorite.
Speaker 8: Try to name one other Latino on television?
Speaker 1: Oh all right, let's uh not Heroldo.
Speaker 8: Okay, oh uh, ps was canceled.
Speaker 7: Johnny is Whitney.
Speaker 1: No either of the Broke.
Speaker 2: Girls you think so?
Speaker 7: But no.
Speaker 8: Desperate Housewives with Evil Longoria that was canceled.
Speaker 1: The secis guy. Oh yeah, yeah, interesting man.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 8: You know what the most interesting thing is about that guy?
Speaker 8: He's a real name is Jonathan Goldsmith?
Speaker 10: Yes, all right?
Speaker 1: Oh okay. Sophia Virgara Modern Family hit show lead role.
Speaker 8: Now that does not count because she's hot first Latina second.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 8: Degrading stuff, stereo hype stuff. Latino actors are reduced to
Speaker 8: hanging out in front of a home depot on Lo Sienaga,
Speaker 8: waiting for a producer to pull up with some day work.
Speaker 8: Next thing, you know, you're playing a house painter who
Speaker 8: can't do anything right now.
Speaker 11: You said, paint the whole house. Aren't the windows part
Speaker 11: of the house? A yay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 10: Who painted the windows?
Speaker 1: It's good writing, but you really brought it to life.
Speaker 1: It was all right forget sitcoms. What about dramatic roles?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean at this point, Latinos would be lucky
Speaker 8: to get cast as the second guy killed in some
Speaker 8: crazy ass space flick.
Speaker 2: Don't worry, guys, I'll check out the cave.
Speaker 12: He's gone, my leg.
Speaker 1: Oh what about what about univision? Uh, telenovis and stuff
Speaker 1: like that?
Speaker 4: Would you just say.
Speaker 1: What Telenovella's the univision the Telenovella's.
Speaker 8: I don't speak Spanish and for a generation.
Speaker 5: Thank you?
Speaker 1: How madrigal? Everybody, We'll be right back.
Speaker 10: Are you good?
Speaker 7: The Senate had finally approved comprehensive immigration reform, leaving it
Speaker 7: up to the House to push it through, which is
Speaker 7: basically like asking your cat to take care of your
Speaker 7: goldfish while you're away. Nothing good is going to happen there,
Speaker 7: So is this bill going to beam weete?
Speaker 4: On arrival today, the Republican Speaker of the House said
Speaker 4: immigration reform is not dead, even though he appeared to
Speaker 4: drive a stake through the bipartisan compromise that was passed
Speaker 4: by the Senate.
Speaker 7: Ooh, a steak. So that bill's not dead, it's undead.
Speaker 7: And actually that explains why John Bayiner has been dressing
Speaker 7: like blade lately. Of course, jeopardizing the immigration bill could
Speaker 7: put some Republicans in a tough spot. Not morally, they
Speaker 7: truly don't care about that, but much more importantly politically.
Speaker 8: I bet Republicans who are thinking about running for president
Speaker 8: in twenty sixteen might be working well.
Speaker 3: Republicans know they need this.
Speaker 1: If you want to be president azed States, you have
Speaker 1: to do better with Latinos than Rannie Did.
Speaker 7: You have to do better with Latinos than Mitt Romney?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 7: That is a low bar, my friend. That's like saying, look,
Speaker 7: I'm just looking for something tastier than Arby's. So so
Speaker 7: will Republicans pay a penalty for obstructing this bill? For
Speaker 7: the answer, we turn to senior Latino correspondent Al Madrigal. Ow,
Speaker 7: you are Latino. How is the failure of this bill
Speaker 7: going to affect your vote?
Speaker 8: John?
Speaker 4: That is offensive?
Speaker 8: You know, I'm so sick of people treating Latinos like
Speaker 8: some homogeneous group that all feel the same way about everything.
Speaker 8: And you know what, it's even offensive that you'd have
Speaker 8: me cover this.
Speaker 9: Because I'm Latino.
Speaker 7: Well, to be fair, ol you all these senior Latino correspondence.
Speaker 8: You're right, and I'm also the junior Latino correspondent. You
Speaker 8: know why because I'm the only Latino correspondent on this show,
Speaker 8: not just now but also ever. All Right, I can't
Speaker 8: speak for all Latinos. Stop throwing us all together like
Speaker 8: some sort of Puerto Rica Minnican text mes buffet, which
Speaker 8: is not a thing, but it should because it sounds
Speaker 8: too much.
Speaker 2: Let me explain and take a look at this chart.
Speaker 7: See, these are.
Speaker 8: The top issues for a group I'm referring to as
Speaker 8: all people. Now compare that to the top issues for
Speaker 8: Latino people.
Speaker 2: Well, hold on.
Speaker 7: Hold, how can we can we just look at those
Speaker 7: two charts together because that seems to be exactly the
Speaker 7: same charts.
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, but I mean ours is in a spicier
Speaker 8: font and if you zoom in a little you'll see
Speaker 8: ours includes ultimate fighting and pigeon racing.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, that's sure, Sure, I get it. But that's
Speaker 7: let's let's be fair just for a second. Now, Even
Speaker 7: if there is diversity among Latinos, you, you guys are
Speaker 7: still politically identified as one group.
Speaker 2: But we shouldn't be.
Speaker 8: That's like lumping all Europeans together.
Speaker 2: What if I called you Irish?
Speaker 7: Hey, hey, hey, hey, that's offensive that we are very different,
Speaker 7: and there's also some complicated history between us. We don't
Speaker 7: look alike, we don't sound alike.
Speaker 8: Okay, I mean what if I said you were exactly
Speaker 8: the same as the French.
Speaker 7: Oh really, you take that back or we'll cut off.
Speaker 7: I got it, I got it, I got it.
Speaker 12: Say thank you, Okay.
Speaker 8: That's how a Puerto Rican feels when you call them Dominican,
Speaker 8: or how a Panamanian feels when you call them Honduran.
Speaker 11: Let me prove it to you.
Speaker 8: I went out to the street and I spoke to
Speaker 8: real Latinos about how they feel about other Latinos. Well,
Speaker 8: Latinos are all the same, except for you know, like
Speaker 8: the Mexicans.
Speaker 12: Really, I usually have issues with like Argentinians.
Speaker 5: Dominicans and Puerto Ricans don't know how to speak Spanish.
Speaker 10: Chilean's man, I don't dig those cats.
Speaker 2: Man, they be eating too much mayo and stuff.
Speaker 8: I can't be eating with them, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: Chileans love mayonnaise.
Speaker 6: Chileans love mayonnaise.
Speaker 2: And that's the reason not to like them.
Speaker 10: That is a big reason.
Speaker 12: I think Gualamalins have a funny name to begin with.
Speaker 8: And my friend, when he was tiny, he used to
Speaker 8: say that he was from Wu La Mala.
Speaker 7: Arnold Schwarzeneger saying.
Speaker 8: La, I've had the same jar of mayonnaise and my
Speaker 8: refrigerator for like a seriously, two or three years.
Speaker 10: Nah, man, I have it chile in there will be
Speaker 10: gone in two days.
Speaker 7: What fucker I'm gonna tell you how. I have no idea.
Speaker 7: I had no idea the situation was that serious.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the Chilean mayonnaise thing is crazy. Third per capita
Speaker 8: in the world for male consumption after Russia and the US. Clearly,
Speaker 8: these crazy Chileans think the secret to becoming a world.
Speaker 2: Superpower is just eating mayonnaise.
Speaker 8: Hey, guys, do we need a major industry.
Speaker 7: Or a strong minit there right now?
Speaker 10: Just keep it in the Mayday.
Speaker 8: Said, we'll be number one.
Speaker 11: Besides, why are we always trapped in these mines? And
Speaker 11: do we have any fish to eat besides seabas?
Speaker 7: I I gotta stop you that that is a little
Speaker 7: bit offensive.
Speaker 12: Yes, and that's my point.
Speaker 8: That's why it's so frustrating when people say Latinos can't
Speaker 8: assimilate here in America. They've already got the most important
Speaker 8: part down hating Latinos.
Speaker 7: So you're saying stopping the immigration bill won't necessarily hurt
Speaker 7: Republicans because they can just appeal to Latinos on other issues.
Speaker 8: Not really, We'll hold a grudge and never forget that.
Speaker 8: But I do know how Republicans can keep out Chilean immigrants.
Speaker 6: They just send them more mayonnaise.
Speaker 7: That's true. You people do love your mayonnaise.
Speaker 10: Hunh what hey, hey, hey, relax, relax, We'll just calm down.
Speaker 6: You just call me Chilean Frenchye?
Speaker 7: What what's it you dad? I'm not to call everybody foot.
Speaker 1: So we're talking about immigration, hot button issue in the
Speaker 1: twenty eight and twenty twelve elections, and in the race
Speaker 1: of twenty sixteen, that buttons only getting hotter.
Speaker 6: Hillary cl And returned to Nevada to rekindle her relationship
Speaker 6: with Hispanic voters.
Speaker 7: She declared her unequivocal support.
Speaker 6: For a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 9: We can't wait any longer for a path to full
Speaker 9: and equal citizenship, So I.
Speaker 1: Said it, am I President?
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 1: Or what are we down here? A people?
Speaker 12: TikTok?
Speaker 1: I got meetings.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Clinton's bold immigration gambit sway Latino voters for the answer.
Speaker 1: We joined by senior Latino correspondent Not madrigal Ow. Nice
Speaker 1: to see in, my friend. This is amazing. No candidate
Speaker 1: has ever offered. No, no mainstream candidates ever offered this much.
Speaker 8: Eh, it's a path to citizenship, solid opening offer, not
Speaker 8: a bad start, even if her historic immigration speech was
Speaker 8: delivered in what is clearly the adult circulation room of
Speaker 8: a public library. I guess she figured, Hey, if this
Speaker 8: is a good enough place for homeless guys to masturbate in,
Speaker 8: it's good enough for pannering to Latinos.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Ny, and they thought public libraries wouldn't last in the
Speaker 1: Internet age. But now, Uh, you don't seem you don't
Speaker 1: seem inspired, you don't seem.
Speaker 8: It just feels like we've been down this road before.
Speaker 13: I also believe we have to give a pathway to
Speaker 13: citizenship after they have paid a fine and learned English
Speaker 13: to those who are already here.
Speaker 8: And what we actually get more deportations than ever before.
Speaker 8: What I'm saying is Democrats shouldn't expect to get Latino
Speaker 8: support just because they say all the right things, especially
Speaker 8: since Republicans finally have a candidate Latinos can call their own.
Speaker 1: That's actually two at two Marco Rubio and Ted Kruz.
Speaker 8: Eh, I guess those guys are technically Latinos. I mean,
Speaker 8: there's a lot more to being Latino than just being Latino.
Speaker 1: You mean you mean because they're they're weak on immigration there.
Speaker 8: Well, sure, I mean, but mainly because they're Cuban and
Speaker 8: really a small, and I gotta be honest, a snooty subset.
Speaker 8: They're like the wasps of the Latino world. They can't
Speaker 8: expect the bulk of us non Cuban Latinos to go
Speaker 8: crazy for two Cuban guys who threw away a passed
Speaker 8: the citizenship for a path to the White House, especially
Speaker 8: the one who's actually from Canada.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but now I'm confused. So if Marco Rubio and
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz are not the Latinos in the race, who
Speaker 1: is the Latino in the Republican rance?
Speaker 6: John, Listen and I will tell you a tale of
Speaker 6: the legend of a candadive for president who speaks fluent
Speaker 6: Spanish and as a Mexican wife who raised Mexican children
Speaker 6: and regularly leads Mexican food And this man is a Republican.
Speaker 7: That's no, it's not possible, John, The legion is real.
Speaker 2: And his name is.
Speaker 1: Yeah Yep, yes, yeah yep.
Speaker 12: Or as we called him, and yeahbe.
Speaker 1: I think actually it's pronounced Jeb Jeb Bush.
Speaker 4: Jeb, why would I say?
Speaker 1: You said?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: B Penis?
Speaker 1: Hey, why did I get that again?
Speaker 6: You got it, John, because you don't believe.
Speaker 8: See, most candidates are scrambling to go after Latinos now.
Speaker 8: But yeah, Bush started his outreach program in nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 8: See he literally married into the demographic.
Speaker 1: Well, he married a person, a person who happened to
Speaker 1: be his wife.
Speaker 8: Columba Bush represents this all, John, and Yeb knows it.
Speaker 8: Tell me this man doesn't understand the Mexican American soul.
Speaker 13: After church, to go prepare for Sunday Funday. In my house,
Speaker 13: We'll be cooking ile with beef, and I'll probably make
Speaker 13: a really good wacamole.
Speaker 8: Ah, you hear how that wacamole rolls off the town. Now,
Speaker 8: all he has to do is come up with to
Speaker 8: the table with a meaningful path of citizenship, and he
Speaker 8: might be the one we've all been waiting for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he did say wakam ode very well, But I
Speaker 1: don't know if you notice he also said Sunday Funday.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we really got to work on that.
Speaker 2: It might be the widest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Al, I'm mad you go Everybody.
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