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[Al] Across the country, public education is failing,
but in Arizona lawmakers have found the solution
to the biggest problem facing their schools.
Arizona's governor Jan Brewer just approved a bill
banning ethnic studies classes in public schools.
[Al] And using this new law the Tucson School Board
banned the K through 12 Mexican American studies program.
School board member Michael Hicks.
My concern was a lot of the radical ideas
that they were teaching in these classes,
telling these kids that this is their land,
the white's took it over, and the only way to get out
from beneath the [speaking foreign language],
which is the white man, is by bloodshed.
When you sat in on these classes, what types of.
I chose not to go to any of their classes.
[audience laughing]
Why even go? Why even go?
I base my thoughts on hearsay from others,
[audience laughing]
so I based it off of those.
[Al] With powerful evidence like hearsay,
[audience laughing]
the Tucson School Board had little choice
but to end the Mexican American studies program.
Protecting kids from dangerous teachers like Curtis Acosta.
Our students are much more likely to graduate,
go to college, their test scores have improved,
and most of all they're excited about education
so they can pursue it in their future lives.
And you do that by teaching them to hate white people.
[audience laughing]
We don't teach them to hate white people.
What we're trying to do is provide a more complex version
of what has happened in our past so that our students
are engaged and they can ask themselves critical questions
and build their own understanding.
[Al] Critical thinking; more like critical brainwashing.
And it gets worse.
They would every week go out and buy burritos,
and feed these kids.
What?
[audience laughing]
Yeah; what that does is it builds a more,
of a bond between the teacher and the students.
[audience laughing]
Sure, I'm loyal to this guy because he bought me burritos.
Right, right.
[audience laughing]
You slip your burritos to kids, don't you?
[audience laughing]
Why would be giving food to our youths
be something that frowned upon?
When the program goes away, the burritos go away.
That's why these kids are upset.
[speaking foreign language]
[audience laughing]
That's pretty offensive.
[Al] And now that they've eradicated Mexican American
studies from the schools, they can focus
on other ethnicities.
Honestly this law won't be applied
to any other of our courses.
It was strictly written for one course.
[audience laughing]
Which is the Mexican American studies program,
and nobody has complained about any of the pan-Asian,
or any of the other courses that are being taught.
What about the African American studies program?
The African American studies program is still there,
it's not teaching the resentment of a race
or class of people.
I'm a Black kid.
Try to teach me about slavery without me feeling
resentment towards white people.
[audience laughing]
How am I gonna teach you about slavery?
Slavery was.
[Al] How did I end up here?
Slavery was a.
[audience laughing]
Now I gotta figure out that one.
Okay, the white man did bring over the, Africans.
And what kind of jobs did we do?
The jobs that you guys did was basically slavery jobs.
[audience laughing]
So after we were freed we got to vote?
Yes.
You got, well,
[audience laughing]
you didn't get to vote until later.
[audience laughing]
And we were equal?
Almost equal.
What, we were like, sort of a half?
Or a three fifths?
[audience laughing]
My personal perception of it, I would say
you were probably a quarter.
[audience groaning]
[Al] The more he taught me about Black history,
the more I realized Arizona has figured out
the right way to teach it.
We now have a Black man as a president.
You know, Rosa Clark, did not,
[audience laughing]
take on a gun and go onto a bus and hold up everybody.
[Al] Sadly the peaceful lessons of Rosa Clark
[audience laughing]
are lost on the radical reactionaries
teaching Mexican American studies.
I think this is a great country.
In some countries I might be, actually locked up
for teaching the way I have.
And, while in this country, I'm just banned from doing it.
[audience laughing]
You're very close to getting locked up.
Until then, Arizona's children can count
on professional educators like Michael Hicks
to protect them.
Do you think it'll be okay for the school district
to have a Mexican American studies program
when the district is 100% Latino?
No.
But at that point there'll be no white people left.
Well, if there's no more white people in the world,
then, okay, then you can do what you want.
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[Al] Oh, don't worry Mr. Hicks; we will.
[audience laughing]
We will.
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Quick question; are you white?
[audience laughing]
If so, last Friday's dismal May unemployment figures
were bad, but not minority bad.
The persistent unemployment you have
in the Black community, 14%, compared to whites
which is at 7%, Latino community 11% unemployment
to whites, 7%.
Wow; double digit unemployment for Blacks and Latinos.
That could really hurt Obama's chances amongst,
well just the Latinos, I mean, you know.
[audience laughing]
Let's be frank.
[audience laughing]
For more on this we turn to senior Latino
economic analyst, Al Madrigal; Al thanks for joining us, Al.
[audience cheering]
Does 11% in the Latino community
put the Latino community in play for this election?
I mean, it may, but even 11% pales in comparison
to the 98.7% unemployment Latinos face elsewhere.
Uh, 98, where?
Right here Jon, show business.
[audience laughing]
[speaking foreign language]
[audience laughing]
You're, Latino, and you have a job in show business.
Yes, I have the job, Jon.
[audience laughing]
Do me a favor, try to name one other Latino on television.
Oh, all right, let's.
Not Geraldo.
Okay.
[audience laughing]
Oh!
Lopez was canceled Jon.
[censoring beep]
[audience laughing]
Is Whitney?
No.
Either of the broke girls?
You'd think so, but no.
[audience laughing]
Desperate Housewives with Eva Longoria?
Yes.
That was canceled.
Ah, Dos Equis guy.
Oh yeah yeah.
The most interesting man.
[audience laughing]
That's right; you know what the most interesting thing
is about that guy?
What?
His real name is Jonathan Goldsmith.
[audience laughing]
Yes!
[audience laughing]
[audience applauding]
No, all right, oh,
okay, Sofia Vergara, Modern Family, hit show, lead role.
Now, that does not count,
because she's hot first, Latina second.
-[audience laughing] -[audience cheering]
But there are still roles.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Degrading stuff, stereotype stuff.
Latino actors are reduced to hanging out
in front of a Home Depot on La Cienega
waiting for a producer to pull up with some day work.
[audience laughing]
Next thing you know you're playing a house painter
who can't do anything right.
Ah, you said paint the whole house.
[audience laughing]
Aren't the windows part of the house?
[audience laughing]
Ay, ay, ay, I'm sorry.
[audience laughing]
Who paints the windows?
That's, it's good writing,
but you really brought it to life.
All right, forget sitcoms.
[audience laughing]
What about dramatic roles?
Yeah, I mean at this point Latinos would be lucky
to get cast as the second guy killed
in some crazy ass space flick.
Ah, don't worry guys, I'll check out the cave.
[audience laughing]
It's got my legs!
[exaggerated screaming]
-[mimicking bullets firing] -[audience laughing]
Oh!
-[audience cheering] -[audience applauding]
What about Univision?
Telenovas and stuff like that?
What'd you just say?
[audience laughing]
[Jon] Telenovelas, Univision?
The telenovelas?
I don't speak Spanish, Jon.
[audience laughing]
I'm fourth generation.
Thank you; Al Madrigal everybody, we'll be right back.
[audience cheering]
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The Senate had finally approved comprehensive
immigration reform, leaving it up to the House
to push it through.
Which is basically like asking your cat
to take care of your goldfish while you're away.
[audience laughing]
Nothing good is going to happen there.
[audience laughing]
So, so is this bill going to be
[speaking foreign language] on arrival?
Today, the Republican speaker of the House
said immigration reform is not dead,
even though he appeared to drive a stake
through the bipartisan compromise
that was passed by the Senate.
Oh, a stake.
[audience laughing]
So that bill's not dead, it's undead.
[audience laughing]
And actually that explains why John Boehner
has been dressing like Blade lately.
[audience laughing]
Of course, jeopardizing the immigration bill
could put some Republicans in a tough spot.
Not morally, they truly don't care about that,
but much more importantly, politically.
I bet Republicans who are thinking about running
for President in 2016, might be worried.
Well the Republicans know they need this.
If you wanna be president of the United States,
you have to do better with Latinos than Mitt Romney did.
You have to do better with Latinos than Mitt Romney.
[audience laughing]
Oh, that is a low bar my friend.
[audience laughing]
That's like saying, look,
[audience applauding]
I'm just looking for something tastier than Arby's.
[audience laughing]
So, will Republicans pay a penalty
for obstructing this bill?
For the answer we turn to senior Latino correspondent
Al Madrigal, Al.
[audience cheering]
Al, you are Latino, how is the failure of this bill
going to affect your vote?
John, that is offensive, you know?
I'm so sick of people treating Latinos
like some homogenous group that all feel
the same way about everything.
And you know what?
It's even offensive that you would have me cover this
because I'm Latino.
Well hold,
[audience laughing]
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
to be fair Al, you are the senior Latino correspondent.
[audience laughing]
Oh, you're right, and I'm also
the junior Latino correspondent.
[audience laughing]
You know why?
Because I'm the only Latino correspondent,
[audience laughing]
on this show, not just now, but also ever, all right?
[audience laughing]
I can't speak for all Latinos.
Stop throwing us all together like some sort
of Puerto Rica-minican-Tex-Mex buffet.
[audience laughing]
Which is not a thing, but it should be,
'cause it sounds delicious.
[audience laughing]
Let me explain.
Take a look at this chart.
See, these are the top issues for a group
I'm referring to as all people.
Now, compare that to the top issues for Latino people.
Well, hold on,
-hold on, hold on, -[audience laughing]
whoa, whoa, whoa,
can we just look at those two charts together?
'Cause that seems to be exactly the same chart.
[audience laughing]
[Al] Well yeah, but I mean ours is in a spicier font, and,
[audience laughing]
if you zoom in a little you'll see ours includes
ultimate fighting and pigeon racing.
[audience laughing]
Okay, yeah, that, sure, sure, I get it.
But let's be fair just for a second now.
Even if there is diversity among Latinos,
you guys are still politically identified as one group.
Yeah, but we shouldn't be.
That's like lumping all Europeans together.
What if I called you Irish?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
[audience laughing]
Hey, that's offensive, that, we are very different.
And there's also some complicated history between us.
We don't look alike, we don't sound alike.
Okay, I mean, what if I said you were exactly the same
as the French?
Oh really?
[glass shattering]
[audience laughing]
You take that back,
[audience cheering]
or I will cut your face off.
Oh, I get it.
I get it, I get it.
See, thank you, okay?
That's how a Puerto Rican feels when you call him Dominican.
Or how a Panamanian feels when you call him Honduran.
[lone audience member cheering]
Let me prove it to you.
[audience laughing]
I went out to the street and I spoke
to real Latinos about how they feel about other Latinos.
Well, Latinos are all the same, except for you know,
like the Mexicans really.
[audience laughing]
I usually have issues with like, Argentinians.
Dominicans and Puerto Ricans
don't know how to speak Spanish.
Chileans man, I don't dig those cats man,
they be eating too much mayo and stuff.
[audience laughing]
I can't be eating with them, you know what I mean?
Chileans love mayonnaise?
Chileans love mayonnaise.
[audience laughing]
And that's a reason not to like them?
That is a big reason.
[audience laughing]
I think Guatemalans have a funny name to begin with.
And my friend, when he was tiny,
he used to say that he was from Guatalamala.
That's like Arnold Schwarzenegger saying it.
[mumbling incoherently]
[audience laughing]
I've had the same jar of mayonnaise in my refrigerator
for like, seriously, two or three years.
Nah man, have a Chilean in there,
it'll be gone in two days.
What?
[audience laughing]
I've gotta tell you Al.
[audience cheering]
I had no idea.
I had no idea the situation was that serious.
Yeah, the Chilean mayonnaise thing is crazy.
[audience laughing]
Third per capita in the world,
[audience laughing]
for mayo consumption, after Russia and the US.
[audience laughing]
Clearly these crazy Chileans think the secret
to becoming a world superpower is just eating mayonnaise.
[audience laughing]
Hey guys, do we need a major industry or a strong military?
Nah, just keep eating the mayonnaise,
and we'll be number one.
[audience laughing]
Besides, why are we always trapped in these mines?
[audience laughing]
And uh,
-[audience groaning] -do we have any fish to eat
besides sea bass?
Al, Al, Al, I gotta stop you,
that is a little bit offensive.
Yes, and that's my point.
That's why it's so frustrating when people say Latinos
can't assimilate here in America.
They've already got the most important part down,
hating Latinos.
[audience laughing]
So you're saying stopping the immigration bill
won't necessarily hurt Republicans 'cause they can just
appeal to Latinos on other issues/
Not really, we'll hold a grudge and never forget that.
[audience laughing]
But, I do know how Republicans can keep out
Chilean immigrants.
See, just send them more mayonnaise.
[audience laughing]
That's true, you people do love your mayonnaise, huh?
What?
[glass shattering]
Hey!
-Hey! -[audience cheering]
Hey, hey!
[audience cheering]
[Al grumbling angrily]
Hey, relax, relax.
Just calm down.
You just call me Chilean, Frenchy?
What?
[glass shattering]
[audience laughing]
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