Transcript
Julio Elizondo & Leobarda Elizonda
Boise State University student and Manager with Sears Credit; Julio's Mother
Do you think it's necessary to have bilingual education?
Leobarda
Yes, to learn several languages.
Julio
She even supported me when I wanted to take Japanese in high school. Education is the end to ignorance so as long as we are able to embrace it and value it, we are able to succeed not as just an individual but as a community and I positively embrace it and I regret for several years not embracing who I was and my heritage.
Julio
Well at home, I always speak Spanish because that is the way I communicate. Again, it is valuing the people around you. I know Judge Gutierrez was a big mentor of mine, supporting me, pushing me all the way, telling me that I could succeed when so many others were telling me that I couldn't. So it's just a wonderful opportunity to be here and say that I value people, I value diversity, I value who I am and those around me because again, its one way to say "Yeah, I respect you" but it is another thing to value what and understand and learn from them.
Leobarda (translated by her son Julio)
She brings in the religion factor; she says that they should not be discrimination. Where God does not discriminate, who are we to?
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