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Him he was black. he's like, no, i'm light brown. i said let me explain what this means. we're having these conversations quite often. it's funny their reactions are a lot like probably some of your -- some of the critics on facebook. i took the kids to see "hidden figures" last year. almost had to pull a gun on a couple of them to get them to see it. my oldest said you just want me to see this because i want you to hate white people. i had to explain that's only 90% of it. i want him to understand where his history comes from and they have to understand that things are just different for us. ...

Imagine the television show "csi." >> right. >> reporter: there's a light, oh, there's a -- it's just too easy. but there it was. >> it was there. i think one thing i knew pretty much right at the beginning was i could visibly see blood on the outside of the flashlight. we knew that had to be involved. >> reporter: but then a real breakthrough. a newspaper carrier called in to report that he and his girlfriend saw something. they'd been driving down this country road middle of the night about a mile from the stock farmhouse down there. and just here outside this cemetery, they saw a car just p...

>> sounds good. i've heard this type of music before, but this has a different spin on it. >> we're remixing roots music. we're chicano kids. born here, but we've got roots all over the world. you know, even in this band, we got roots, jewish folks, mohawk, yaci, mexican, all across the board. but one thing we have in common is that we all grew up here. so this process of assimilation and like knowing your language, not knowing your language. what does your like ancestry come from? that whole like feeling proud, not feeling proud. that whole process we call like the chicano experience. >> the ...

Term that came from the people. the term that came from the streets. that came from the struggle of people saying like brown is beautiful. we want access to like the same rights and privileges and quality of life as anybody else. hispanic, i don't know where that -- >> wasn't that reagan? >> so that's the white man's word? >> it's a white man's word. it's a census word to basically put everybody who remotely speaks spanish under an umbrella term so it can make it really easy. >> to keep track of you people. >> yeah. to keep track and all right, put everybody in categories. >> okay. >> latino i...

>> reporter: there's a light, oh, there's a -- it's just too easy. but there it was. >> it was there. i think one thing i knew pretty much right at the beginning was i could visibly see blood on the outside of the flashlight. we knew that had to be involved. >> reporter: but then a real breakthrough. a newspaper carrier called in to report that he and his girlfriend saw something. they'd been driving down this country road middle of the night about a mile from the stock farmhouse down there. and just here outside this cemetery, they saw a car just parked here. strange cars just don't get parke...