Earlier this morning on NBC’s Meet the Press, Maria Hinojosa, host and executive producer of Latino USA, was part of the show’s weekly panel. Our team gathered the clips from the show, and we wanted to share them with our listeners. Here they are.
In this first clip, MTP’s Chuck Todd asked Maria about Donald Trump, who made an presidential campaign appearance in Phoenix, Arizona, yesterday.
Later in the show, Maria talked about why elected officials and presidential candidates, both Republicans like Scott Walker and Democrats like Hillary Clinton, are staying relatively quiet about Trump’s controversial statements about Mexicans. (Update: Clinton gave a new interview later today with CNN, where she addressed Trump’s comments.)
Maria and the panel also discussed their reactions to South Carolina’s decision to take down the Confederate flag from its state capitol. Even in that conversation (which had occurred at the top of the show), it was hard to avoid the topic of Trump, given that South Carolina governor Nikki Haley was talking about healing and unity in a previous interview.
Finally, Maria also talked about the New South, after historian Doris Kearns Goodwin shared her views about South Carolina’s historic moment.
WE ARE NOT ILLEGAL! We are undocumented!! WE ARE AS ILLEGAL AS YOU ARE! The first human beings in this area were American Indians!! Get the history books out!!!! And UNDOCUMENTED ANYBODY, CAN NOT RECEIVE ANY TYPE OF GOVERNMENT “FOOD STAMPS”. Get your “Google” out! The children of UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS WHEN ALL THESE CRIMINALISTIC LAWS AND BILLS WERE BEING CREATED, are adults now! ADULTS WHO CAN VOTE!!!!!!
ADULTS WHO CAN VOTE!!!!! I repeat! So all you HATERS LISTEN: this will become once again!!!!! ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!! All….All…All!
Not just the white rich racist! So hold out to your hating ties and get ready! LATINOS UNITED WILL NEVER BE DIVIDED!!! Look around you mr. “White people are the only ones begging! While Latinos. Asians, Africans, and every other race, are getting Educated! So use some of that HOT AIR AND TAKE TIME TO LOVE THY NEIGHBOR, even if he isn’t your color! Have a God Blessed day! Thank you.
Hooray for Maria Hinajosa, a champion for Latinos, for the multiculturalism that is our future, and therefore for all of us!
Hi Latino USA – thank you for posting! Has anyone else had trouble with sound on these videos? I can hear the TEDx video on another page but can’t get sound from these. Hope to catch the clips later.