Sounds like one of the neighborhood is involved in it. Host do you have an idea of how many gang members there are in l. A. . A literal number . Guest well, the official story the official statistics are in the city of los angeles is somewhere between 40,000 to 60,000 gang members. Host the city population 3 million, 83 million by guest to what youre talking about, that is the highest in the country. But some people have been identified as gang members 10 years ago. They are still counted as gang members. What they are seen as gang members are not popping up saying about my card and a gang member. So the numbers are very squishy. It not going to get your drivers license. Host jorja leap, what do you teach at ucla . Guest how to survive the world in 10 weeks. I teach undergraduate and graduate in the school of public affairs. With undergraduates i teach it to quarter horse called introduction of social welfare of the students often referred to as guilt 100, which is literally how to cha
Why would a victory 1500 miles away in a different country has such an impact here in the United States . Thats what this book is all about. Host what would the french do in pueblo, mexico in 1862 . Guest will have to run up to that because in explaining the origins, its the role of latinos in the constitution of law. It goes back to 1776. They write their constitution. The declaration says all men are created equal and inalienable right. They fight a war. But the constitution. Wait a minute, a third of the people here are slaves. It means we have to give them life, liberty pursuit of happiness . Just fitted. They are not white, so they are not born equal. So they dont get life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Denying civil rights, basic civil rights. 1810 mexico declared independence. On september 16, which is mexican independence day. He announces mexico will win its independence from spain and the reason why mexico is going to be independent. The first one itinerant dependences ab
Politically correct term of latinos as hispanics. Id like you to dig into that and tell me why you refer to come are supposed put it this way. How dare you refer to break out of the politically correct bubble of latinos and refer to hispanics. What are the roots of that . Guest thank you for that question. I think both terms are in a way false in their own way. I think the term hispanic, for example, is the product of the bureaucracy. Bureaucrats working in the Nixon Administration in the 1970s were all of a sudden faced with this big influx of new immigrants. Because of the laws were changed in the 1960s, a lot of home were immigrants from latin america including me and my family by the way. We came here in 1974, and it was almost like they did know how to handle this multitude of people. More important than that, this is the aftermath of the Civil Rights Act which was created for africanamericans and then all of a sudden the bureaucracy and many of the leaders, the activists of these
Mayo when i usually go during the summer i felt i thought i was the the biggest ever. I got a good seat and i waited and waited and waited. I said where is your it Cinco De Mayo . What Cinco De Mayo . Dont you have a parade . And then i began to discover how differently it is commemorated in the two countries. Now that i understand it is part of the civil war that impacts latinos tremendously year if they had won the wrist no future for the latinos. The ranch looks shaky but Cinco De Mayo like that alamo with the anglo texan let us never forget. And so impacted the community 152 years later reaching kawai . But we think of it more as the festival Something Like st. Patricks day. But what i discovered they are constitutional issues like racial equality. With other forms of government of course, what about the womens rights led to american Constitutional Values . Then they become part of the united states. Host talking about american history. Guest i did not get a ph. D. In history but t
After words she clearly was surprised when i said i am not show silverstein but she would talk to me all along the route to peace from harpers magazine. Host why you close with him . Guest because it is a funny story. Neil the brother of george w. Bush and he was just curious and astonishing career in the oil industry that was not based on success because he failed time and time again. With the track record unblemished. But people over the years have partnered with him because of his family name. But truly it was a funny story interesting story and a reflection the way the world works. Host there was a number of astonishing career opportunities. Guest but the truth is we do not want to lose it. That is the truth. Host was going to ask this but how do you do that . Am always surprised how people talk to journalists. Even though i am critical of the industry i told them i am critical of the industry. The also feel that they have done a lot of interesting and important things. Is they fee