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I like this. Yeah. Yeah. He's cool. He has been hate me for it. Third is broken medic. Someone broke it up and down.

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Like this. Yeah. Like now that back together, I let it go. My God, he broke if I know how I have no idea.

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Like what. Okay. I'm recording now. So okay. So we're just going to start, like we said,

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with the story of how you first realize that you are able to occasionally the regular way that I like, it's good because it

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will come into your area of neighborhood. So for the audiences, if you would just start over as if they don't know you at all, don't know anything.

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Say Hi, I'm Chandra, but just start the story it off. Okay. Whenever you're ready.

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Okay. Well, my mom is Mexican, My father is African American, and we grew up in a very real-world.

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I wouldn't even call it role when we grow up in the country in New Jersey on a seven acre farm on a hill that was actually

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a dirt road with then and we were about a mile off the main road. So when we were younger, I went to school in New Jersey and the school bus

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would not come the mile up the road to come to our driveway and pick this up like it did everyone else on the rail.

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So my mom was just very aggressive, very outspoken. She went to the district, filed the petition and

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got however many signatures that they required that you get, and ultimately forced the bus to come up the road because

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whether it was snow ban, whether it was dark, it was heavily wooded. There were dogs out there and it was just,

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you know, for myself, my two brothers and sisters who were young children, elementary school walking, you know,

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that miles to the main road to stand at the end of the road and catch the bus. And they were adamantly not going

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to come up and pick us up at the driveway like they did all the other children for no good reason, of course.

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But ultimately, that was not my fault. That fight, which was one of many fights and she won until that was one of her victories.

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And so she got tired of fighting and ended up homeschooling grandchildren. So she's a fighter. But you were at school now,

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my three younger brothers and sisters were home-schooled. I went to public school. Once.

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You actually have us come to your house to pick you up, did you feel any animosity for the bus driver or

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maybe the students on a bus. Boy will actually benefit. It benefited not only us but other students who lived on that road.

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There were a few families who lived on the route that all had to walk down to the bus. So but we owe mossy from the bus driver,

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from the principal at the school, from the everyone who was involved on the district and school level.

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And we just felt that animosity because of who we were and that my mom was outspoken and she demanded to be

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treated justly and for her children to be treated justly. So yes, we always felt that I don't want study in school on the bus.

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Growing up. You like what was your experience? Like infill with other kids? Being one of the only Yeah. Yeah.

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Ashton, I see culture having not a lot people in your educational experience feel that too. When I was young growing up in

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the area that I grow, we fell. It was made obvious that we were really dear friend myself, again, my mother to be Mexicana,

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my father, African American. We were never Can we were never accepted by the way, kids in our neighborhood and at school.

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I was never accepted by the black kids. Always had different hair, I guess my different complexion and it was just evident

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that we were maybe because we were biracial, but we never had that feeling of acceptance. And I just felt I learned what racism was very early on,

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what it was to be discriminated against and treated very badly specifically by the white kids who were our neighbors all around and made

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up most of the population and our school days totally feces and our mailbox and on our doorstep. And I remember one time I had

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a favorite little doll as white little curly hair. And they came and tortured her in theory. The tallest tree and I just had to like,

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I could never get it down. She just brought it up. There's tho those things like that that really made

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me know what it was to be discriminated against. And also Philip H. And myself, because I feel like I hated

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those kids for always tormenting us about our hair. And my brother's all had Afros, and my sisters and I have different textures.

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Okay, are we, we even felt that resentment amongst the family, like my sister had darker skin than me.

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And I felt like was that men from her her hair was different than mine. Though. There was a lot of internal struggles

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within ourselves, struggles within our families, amongst my siblings, specifically my sister, and then

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amongst the kids that we went to school with you now, not being black, not being white. And there were no Mexican students.

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Eventually non-country school, one Hispanic family did move to our school district and start attending our school.

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They were better again, and they were always accepted. But us being Mexican, an African-American culture,

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it was just a different experience that I absolutely hated instead of my brothers and sisters wasn't a good experience. And now, now your experience

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like embracing both cultures, how does that shape your adult life? Please, surgery. The great thing about my childhood and I

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do look at my experiences wonderful. My parents really made sure that we had a very enriching childhood. We were exposed to a lot.

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We traveled a lot. We experience on a regular basis people telling us, you know, well, you, you're so beautiful

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and we've got until my parents, you have beautiful children. She has beautiful hair and my aunts and uncles

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used to call me curly top on my dad's side. Now there's a different experience on my mom's side. Her my maternal grandmother

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told my mom that if you marry that black Mendel, ever come back here to our home, which was California.

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That's where my mother and father met. And we always felt that like we were kind of outcasts in

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our own family on that side, especially with my grandmother, my dad's that uncles and cousins we agree have allotted for

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them or are very close. But we always had we went to Philadelphia. We my mom had a restaurant business when I

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was growing up and she had a little tough because then we would travel every single weekend to New York,

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New Jersey, philadelphia, and people there, it was a little bit different culture. We were attending events that were very culturally diverse than everyone

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was telling you felt beautiful. We were and we were. It always gave me a sense of self pride. And I always had a very strong steam.

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High self-esteem, felt good about myself and I felt good about my culture. I loved. We used to go to Mexico every year, once a year for that was that

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as the Christmas celebration? The holiday celebrations. And it was I was passionate and intended learning Spanish because

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I just felt like it was a beautiful language, makes it goes a beautiful place. It's a wonderful country. I loved it. I really brief historical term.

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I loved working at her mom's Mexican restaurant and connecting with the clientele who were predominantly Mexican and Hispanic.

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They came here though. I love that. Again, you know, if it wasn't for that culturally enriching aspect of our childhood,

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I know that I would not be the woman that I am today. Digital camera. Redo them.

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And now I see that better. Thank you. Thank you. And your Palaeozoic Era is close. Your breath.

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Everyone's were also family. Yeah, that's for sure. Yeah. Valley were impacted in very different ways. I can talk about that.

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Okay. So growing up, my mother came to the United States from Mexico when she was six years old.

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And my father is the descendant asleep family in New Jersey. So my parents came from two different sides of

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the well to different countries. And then ultimately my family came together from two different size of the country,

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from Santa Monica, California to New Jersey. I have seven brothers and sisters. There's eight of us all together. Six of us grew up together in South Jersey.

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We all had the same experience, but we were impacted in very different ways. So I have a lot of appreciation and I learned a lot and feel very full,

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very rich and valuable experience from childhood high school just to growing into womanhood and doing the things that I'm able to do today.

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I always was one of the children who fully embraced my cultural background. And for all of my siblings, that was more challenging than it was for me.

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I was very proud of who I was. I never wanted to be like anyone else. And that was it. So my hated me.

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I hated that you get out. And it was that was a challenge for me. It wasn't me had to get over that. And thankfully,

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I've learned to have love and appreciation for people. And I've also learned to understand that, you know, our differences

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are to be celebrated. So diversity is something that I celebrate a lot. What my mom, when we were young,

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my moneys to come to our school with the hue, somebody at all, poncho and some thoughts and ships. And my brothers and sisters

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used to absolutely hate it. And I loved it. I look forward to coming and sharing the culture and talking to

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my class about whether it was show-and-tell or Cinco de Mayo or just her passion has always been cultural awareness.

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You know, I think that she really was purposefully intending on allowing those children to understand in Abuja who

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we were asked for children. So it was more than just show-and-tell to her. I realize that now she was really trying to

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share a lot about our culture and might have seemed weird and uncomfortable. I forgetting movements that Kids tasted

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her thoughts that like they're like Yeah. Yes. Fitts's years though. It was a great experience.

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So when I was nine years old, my mom opened her first Mexican restaurant. And again, I I loved that because it allowed me

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to stay close to my Mexican culture. When I was a young teenager, we started the first Mexican folkloric

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ballet in New Jersey. But we also had a strong influence just from the African culture. My dad always tried to bring the African

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and African-American to life in our lives growing up. So we went to all of the African festivals who came

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to Delaware and the African festival on a brand new one, good pens landing to Philadelphia, to the African festival Zen.

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We always on, he would take us to Jamaica when we were young to expose this to that culture. We never got to travel to Africa,

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like we traveled to Mexico. But we just really had a strong group of friends. We would go to

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so many events and different museums. And if there was an African dance and drum, true, that was playing or some

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cultural were always on some cultural excursion, weather and my loading everyone up an event and taking us

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halfway around the country or all the way around the country, 16 children. I can't ever remember flying to California. So we would dry from New Jersey to California

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and New Jersey to Mexico and not to Tijuana, but down in Mexico to know what hot though where my family was from. So that would just take, you know,

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excursions than just travel around the world. It felt like when I was younger and we really had a lot of exposure, I enjoyed becoming

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culturally diverse person than I am. I never had a wish there was something that was really good. My sister used to cry a lot

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because I choose to put powder on her face to try to change the color, skin and choose to hairspray or hair and teeth.

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And, you know, so it was difficult. It really affected her self-esteem. The fact that we were told that your hair is nappy,

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you're ugly and you're weird and you're different. When we got to high school in the same five minutes

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from the other little town, went to went to high school. And suddenly we're like the pretty black girls,

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like the beautiful girls. He now so very different. But it affected me just as much that I was labeled that pretty black girl as.

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I was labeled the Eberly other girl that no one knew who to have a greater impact. I always felt strong knowing

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full well does culturally. So eventually, people just started to embrace me and love me for who I am.

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And I began to really love and embrace individuals for who they were as well, having a greater appreciation, I think,

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for people's individual, individuality. So it's a great experience for me. Do you enjoy about talk about what you're doing now?

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Yes. Okay. Yeah. I'm ready. Okay. As I grew through high school, this okay.

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School overall was like something that I just felt like 13 years with Logan. And I just wanted to explore the world and do great things.

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I went to Jamaica. I just wanted to travel the world and I left school. So I went to Jamaica and Mexico after.

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But I could never get away from my cache. And I've always had a passion for working with youth and families. And that's led me to what I

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do now for the past seven years, I've worked independently as a youth program development specialist. I'm very passionate about working

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to better the lives and the quality of life with youth and their families from the inner city. Specifically children

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from Hispanic communities and from the African American communities. Because there's such a large achievement gap with regard to education,

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most of my initiatives are centered around education and all of that. And bring the diversity

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and the cultural awareness. And we host diversity trainings with those cultural events. I just founded an organization

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called the Village alliance. And it's about bringing the entities and the different arms of a community together,

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all the resources together to make a greater impact in the lives of youth and families in the Hispanic and

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African-American communities. So I just know that there are a lot of people with a lot of resources and there are a lot

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of children that are in need of our health, but we can address the problems that youth are facing, the challenges that they're

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having without adjusting them holistically and approaching the needs of the entire family. So with English language learners

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in the Hispanic population, there are barriers that we had to overcome. And a lot of the mothers of these families may not be as outspoken.

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A lot of the fathers may not be as supportive. A lot of them may not be, not had that sense of cry about

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their cultural differences and are just trying to be accepted. And we're trying to just help families to, number one,

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address language barrier that makes us that may prevent them from even communicating. So again, my passion just lies in helping

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to or to increase the quality of life for these families and individuals. And, you know, people still,

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even in my adult life and has outgrown all through life. People do not now, next again, an African-American again,

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until you are in Hispanic at all, until they hear me speaking Spanish, I could have known someone for 10 years and they'll

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forget that I'm Hispanic and analyse, hear me speaking Spanish. And it can be a bit of a surprise, but it's so rewarding for me

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when suspended family walks into a room at a parent teacher organization meeting or an information session.

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And when I open my mouth and begin to communicate in a language with that parent understands. It's just like they melt into

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my words and they just their eyes and their smile really shows a lot of gratitude and appreciation that they

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can understand and communicate. Because the thing about a lot of Hispanic families they're very, very interested in there,

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child's education in every aspect of their children. A lot of mothers and a lot of women want to get more involved

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in their child's education experience and just the experience as young people growing up in a society that's foreign to them.

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But to be able to communicate and hassle and they can appreciate them and understand them and listen to that,

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as well as speak their languages. It's priceless and I can see that in their face every time I open my mouth

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and speak to them and have a conversation, I'm able to provide services in Spanish and English and it really makes me happy that I can have.

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A greater impact and not only the African-American community, but the Hispanic community as well. And be the voice of my mother.

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That may be some, some families in some children don't have and fight for equal rights and justice for these families

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and areas where society may just take for granted that everyone there is an equal playing field and really there's not.

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You have to fight for everything with a lot of our children and families. The ginger batteries,

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I made myself. But is there anything that I'm leaving out the edges from AGI talked or not to backtrack too much,

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but I want to talk a bit about how you said that. Going up, Your dad had experiences with racism that sort

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of framed the way you looked at the world. So if you could just maybe give a few specific instances or maybe even how his

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relationship with the world influenced your opinion on society? Better? Yeah. Okay. You know, well, I'm videotaping real thing,

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but you don't have to answer now because there will be background noise. I kind of want to move connect your movie. I think that for the whole week, yeah.

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I think that's kind of very much in the way, not really much did I only thought, I thought it was just like the lens on a camera.

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It just looks a little fuzzy on the top. Hey, guys. It's a good shot. I believe that last like

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I had like a village I was doing. I was doing what I thought was like a really artistic close-up. And then I realized, like I didn't

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have your hairline and I didn't want people to think you'd have like a big forehead. So I had to take them.

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But that looked at, I love you all and getting create a fully cool. I'm just going to check my furniture

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less than two. Ellie crop out on her face? No. Yeah. This is the top part is where that goes.

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I'm sorry. I thought you said it'll be home at 315 him

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and put him on camera. Little bit recording where you got to do. This is I like really inspired by seeing your house because like

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I'm not from the area and I handling like was a little hesitant about moving into the learning area and a lot of the places that we

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will ever been like, not up to par. We rely on, I think North and gear in Madison's street sometimes.

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But I feel like it doesn't matter where you move anymore because as long as we bring our stuff in here and that's what everyone says and

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they come in life no matter where you live, it looks exactly the same. Yeah. Okay.

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I have a lot of things stuff and you create your yeah. Makes sense. Yeah.

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You really have to put some color on who's going to pay. If you ever want to do some visual. It's amazing because where I grew up,

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the house where my grandmother lived in New Jersey, which is how we ended up integers. These are some East Coast beautiful.

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Yeah. Have you ever seen like a bamboo like florist? Yes, I know. Figuring its Bu that

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that's all sudden thinning off a bit. But yeah, no, it's property. My dad, Ruth and little bamboo. Bamboo grows up.

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It use it. Taken over the whole property. That's awesome. You know, my family's been

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pretty angry about it. And that was really my first time going over there and beautiful. That's dope and I wanted to do

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this whole thing then that would be awesome. It's going to change that, you know, that tan color. Yeah.

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But anyway, just to top out, I was thinking about just doing the bottom. Like if we cool ceiling to floor. So that will be simple thing.

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It's beautiful and it's like, yeah, pretty bad. The error sounds like SLE. I'll get rid of the background.

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I have to place an area either to fly. Beautiful. Really. Once it turns shellac it

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ambiguous for this one. Okay. All

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right. In the center now or yeah, me too. Yeah. You're Muslim.

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Hey, listen to put George Washington dad on what I said before. Okay. Whenever you're ready. Okay.

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So my file there is a very striking man and his teacher has very distinctive his nose as high cheekbones.

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He has turned locks. So he has a very distinctive appearance. And that's always been the center of a lot of, say, intimidation.

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And I think that my father's hats experiences in his life, one that he's shared. He was the camera man right here, Wilmington,

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the first African-American camera man and journalist, photographer, a journalist for the news journal.

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Because it was during a time of the riots here. And no white reporter would go out in the riots and they

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kinda that lots of, you know, free pass to a promotion like all photographers don't always get up there and you know,

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the gunfight and take some pictures and get the story. And he did. So he has a great story.

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He's a craftsman, he's an artist, the father of a challenge and does a lot, is just to get exposed us to a lot. Been very supportive.

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He's a retired long shore men and purchased a building for my mother to open her restaurant business and encouraged her so

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that that will flourish. And just my mother was always the backbone of the family, but he was definitely the foundation.

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So great experience here had a difficult life just as a black man in this country, as he explains that the black man in America,

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and I've seen that on many occasions, I feel like growing up my family was targeted a lot and it seems like it was a constant fight and struggle for something.

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He is stopped by the police a lot and just see them. Certain things that you may think are cliches.

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You just experienced those things and just has his fight to accomplish every challenge that he's

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overcome in life has just stopped. Seems like it's been a struggle for him. So he's always working hard as in China maintain at the same time.

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But again, we've always had a great appreciation for where we were. He didn't grow, grow less to be hateful people and it wasn't

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a flight that he was always sharing with us that it was just that my father father had a struggle that we could all

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say and just trying to raise a family. And a lot of that may have come from different things other than his cultural background,

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all the toxins traveled. We've always been stopped and searched. And his cultural background always comes in a question.

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No one ever thinks that he's American because of this distinctive features. Questions on the contrary from Andy had nice. He's an American citizen.

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He's, he was born and raised here for at least three generations. See now this than me, so that every time

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you cross the Mexican border, travel to Jamaica or another country, it's like we all get pulled to the side because

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of the way it's visible appearance. So that's, that's about my father. Also wanted to share. Just like even now,

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one of the most commonly asked questions people always ask me, what are you and me sound like they though it may seem strange, but I mean,

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when I'm in the grocery store or a mile fence or business people, you know, everyone. That's a very common question. And to make it seem

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like an ignorant question asked someone, but I think a more understanding of that question. I wrote a poem about it.

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I don't have it. Whether I'm walking down the street or walk into a business office or in a grocery store. What are you usually is prefixed

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by something nice like you really feel good. What are you? Are you really going to hear what aria? So EDA sensor proudly.

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Now, let's CFO course genital 100%, 100 percent max again on 100 percent African American on that hath anything. And I'm 100 percent when you really are.

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Hi everybody, I'm thinking. What else do you want? I feel like we need for our video. Definitely.

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Just for general. Thank you so much. I mean, this will actually be stored in the library anymore. I mean, I assume that like someone was doing

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like a thesis or dissertation about Apple, the genus or bow. Like like, like when a non-profit and stuff like that,

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they can pull this up. Is there anything that you would want in there? The most important thing about,

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I'll say be an Afro Latina. That is to remember that that's a title. And you know, if I can leave the society with anything or children,

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or families or individuals from any walk of life, no matter who you are, where you're from. Everyone is an individual person

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and there's so much to be explored. Their titles are boring. Titles are what they are, one word, two words.

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But it's very important to understand and get to know people for who they are. Not to be superficial as a society.

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Everyone, we're all interdependent. There's no such thing as a human being independent of other human beings. We all need each other.

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We all need to be listened to and understood it and guide it and feel a sense of protection. Especially children.

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Or if you're a teacher, you know, diversity training is critical. It's important to understand that children that you're working

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with and how to reach those children and how to ensure that those children have a sense of self, self esteem, self,

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this, self pride, self-awareness, understand who they are and that can only happen through the appreciation of someone else,

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the appreciation of others. For me, it was no mother and my father gave me that sense of appreciation for who I am.

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On. The role of a teacher is critical. A mentor, a tutor, people in the community.

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It's critical that we don't look down on each other, that we look at each other with respect. And instead of asking

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who you are or we might want to ask, you know, what's your passion? What do you love about like, what do you want to do as a child?

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What kind of impact do you want to have? And a secondary question, what do you want to do when you grow up? Really finding out who people

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are on a very personal level, beyond just asking Who are you and what are you because we're all individuals, we're all people.

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And we all have a great contributions to give to society regardless to what our backgrounds are in our culture.

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It can only make us greater and make a stronger because it just means that we all bring, that brings to the table.

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And we can all add balance and compliment each other and really gave to each other so takes everyone.

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So I would just like to leave that individuality is the, one of the most beautiful things about the human race.

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That we're all individuals, one-on-one self, and interdependent, dependent on each other as arrays. So kids.

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Yeah, I see another question just from this. Or I'm not going to ask me because I don't really have another question.

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If I have a sign he maps. Are someone asked me one time

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why how come you never talk about your son? He's not import. You know, my response was that, you know, I never hear you

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talk about the beat of your heart, but it's what sustains your life. As you talk about methanol. But it was, it was funny that one of

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my neighbors have been tasked me that, yeah, he inspires me and sustain my life. I wouldn't be where I am without me there right now.

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Like gets five and you get Girl, you've added balance to my feathers. So a lot of fun. It's the greatest.

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To be a mother. I've enjoyed that thoroughly. He's 11 years old. And he too, is that the null key?

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It's important that throughout our generations we don't allow our culture to be lost or lie down. So trying to make

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sure that he's continually exposed. I'm a Spanish because I made a decision to learn Spanish, I suppose him to

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the language into the culture. And at wherever K is synthesized, It's going to be there for him to immigrate. He said he knows who he is

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and everything around us. I try and keep our atmosphere. My home is as culturally inspired. He has books on Nochlin that

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Marcus Garvey and Thurgood Marshall, great artists, writers, scientists, poets, doctors, lawyers. That can be a true inspiration

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and that maybe are not featured in other areas of his education. By he's, he's a very intelligent young man. He also has great authors,

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artists, poets, scientists who are from the Hispanic culture. Free as one of our favorite artists who went

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to the Arctic with it recently, not only here I downloaded in Philadelphia Eagles features. So we love to do a lot and he is,

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he gives me a lot of joy to my heart. Maybe you've probably read a lot and we travel a lot. We lived together and

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he's he seems to be having a great theory. School, which means a lot. As a kid, you should have. He doesn't know each and hopefully,

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you never asked one of the hints. Gotta hand.

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You. Go ahead. Yeah. Here. Yeah, that's good.

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I don't think this will be the last to her like it was with the law. Okay. Yeah. A lot of kids really care

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what their peers think about. The kids like myself, really play, does her hair like my younger sister?

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Thinking about my sister, that everybody who are really close. That's one thing. I wish I can ask him

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more questions from here.