[Student asking question] Given the change in immigration laws over the last 50 years and this kind of
idea of identity, like even that label, can you talk a little bit about identity and labels?
[Maria Hinojosa] I guess the thing that makes me really excited about this time and
the conversation around identity is that that we're able to ask these kinds of
questions were able to talk about it. [interview] Dr. King impacted lives across the board. He
spoke so broadly and at the same time you know you always kind of felt like he
was speaking to you he was calling you to action. The way I
remember him, right, because I was alive, I was a little girl, was that I wanted to write
him a letter. [speech] Dr. King you could have never imagined that there was this
little Mexican-born girl sitting maybe just blocks away from where you were
speaking in Chicago one day. You could have never imagined that your words were
the first words that I heard that made me feel that maybe one day, maybe one day
I could be good enough to be considered a real American. [Student question] As a communicator, how do
you know which stories to tell and which stories not to tell. [Hinojosa] It's about
trying to create a conversation about how we're gonna do a particular story
why we're gonna do a particular story. [interview] As Americans we all have the power of our
voice. He married that notion of having voice with the presence of your body.
It wasn't a meme, it wasn't an Instagram story, it wasn't a tweet. We actually saw
what it looked like when you made a decision of where you wanted to put your
body and your intellect. [speech] When journalists back then finally made the right
decision to show the film and the images of how peaceful protesters were met with
rage and fire hoses and dogs and fists and billy clubs and spit, then the rest
of America saw who were those protesters? And how much that group of multiracial
protesters loved this country and how much they were willing to give up for it.
[Student question] With the rise of fake news how do you think that has
affected your voice as a journalist? [Hinojosa] For the people who know us and trust us, our
credibility is the reason why they turned to us. [interview] There's a notion that
somehow if you are an immigrant or a refugee, that then the civil rights
of the United States don't apply to you because you're not born here. And no in
fact, without being born here you still have rights. It's clear that we're facing
so many of the same battles in different ways, has a different look, not you know
pulling people off of counters or stools in front of counters at
Woolworths. Other things are happening though that
are quite distressing. [speech] We need to get beyond our comfort zones we need to
allow ourselves to act because we feel afraid for our neighbors. We need to
do that in 2018, just like Martin Luther King did and showed us how to do until
the moment of his death fifty years ago.
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