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What is that? >> i don't know. i used to see them at the fair. it was a religion. they brrrr all skinny. -- they were all skinny. >> are you sure they don't compete with am way? >> next topic, the athletic department. has apologized for holding a cindo de mayo-themed event with students wearing sombreros and eating free nachos and competing in a costumes contest. some called it racist and insensitive saying, quote, i was disappointed that this team was stereo typing the mexican culture. she or he sounds like a barrel of lives. diane, i don't mean to offend the people wearing barrels, poor peop...

And people expect one or the other, nothing else. she doesn't have to be the va va voom girl that has one line. >> i think this show allows us to all be full characters. >> exactly. >> not just a bombshell. yes, that is a part of who we are. >> i never complained. >> gender stereo typing. >> you are bombshell deluxe. >> devious babies. >> tell me about the reaction from the fans and from the latin community. you guys are doing very well demographically. what has been the reaction from the fans? >> the fans are why we are anything. >> yeah. >> it's not -- i mean the network and lifetime have be...

Racister it -- racist stereo typing of us in american sports. you never know what tipping point is and then you look back and say, ah, that was the tipping point. it doesn't mean the last thing made it happen. it's cumulative. >> yeah, well, i think the trajectory of that tipping point has got to come from somewhere. i read back a transcript of the november 17th, last year, espn.com event that you did when you had a conversation. some of what was said was absolutely horrific to you, and you endured it with such graciousness, i have to tell you. i don't know how you did that. i would have fough...

Well. that the portrayal of kids in this commercial plays into certain stereotypes and is demeaning and belittling. i wanted to get your collective take on that everybody needs to calm down. this commercial is cute. the rapping about school, this is a good thing right? we're not rapping about drugs and women and money. we're rapping about school. so first, that's first. and the second thing is if hoodies and rapping makes you think we're stereo typing black people you either haven't been paying attention for the past 20 years because consumers of hip hop are a majority white. so also, if a hoo...

For civil rights in america. first the voting rights act was gutted. what i say to my children on days like this, our work is not done. we need you. we need more civic engagement. please help us. please join us in solving these problems that still remain. >> i suppose that is one of the messages to the young people. we need your help toorgs. >> i think it is great to see people not giving into despair. seeing people expressing their opinions. it gives me hopeful i think the other pieces that we have really seen the power of two thing. the gun lobby and stereo typing. when you combine those two...