Prior to making this video I boarded the USS Bataan docked at Pier 86 for Fleet Week. I got off the ship close to 3 pm so I went to Jollibee on 8th Ave near Port Authority to have a Chickenjoy meal. The mashed potato was really a sauce. First time I experienced this. I took a walk east on 42 St toward the red steps in Times Square. It was an unusually hot day. The weather brought out many to sit on the red steps. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtGMkCXHaGY

"“It’s painful to realize the discrimination never went away,” Vasquez said. “This is not what you expect of LA.” But the revelations did not feel unfamiliar to many community leaders and immigrants who have long faced discrimination in the United States at the hands of fellow Hispanic people who have carried the racist attitudes prevalent in Latin America to their new country. “They just made public that their colonial minds have not changed,” said Odilia Romero, director and co-founder of Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo, or Indigenous Communities in Leadership. People from native, precolonial communities in Latin America have frequently faced harassment in Los Angeles, a city that prides itself for being tolerant and diverse — and not just from white people. “The assumption that if you are Latino and progressive, you don’t hold racist views, ignores the reality that racism is very deeply ingrained in Mexican and Latin American cultures,” said Gabriela Domenzain, a Mexican American who worked as a Hispanic community expert in both the Obama 2012 and O’Malley 2016 presidential campaigns. Latin America is one of the world’s most ethnically diverse regions, and throughout its history, racial and ethnic groups have converged there — Indigenous people, white colonizers and Black people brought as slaves. Their mixing gave rise to a “browning” of Latin America, with people of different shades of skin depending on their heritage." https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/echoes-of-latin-american-racism-reverberate-in-the-u-s/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvZCdRoZpyQ