Transcript
John Phillip Santos
Writer/Producer
I was struck in the piece, and I am very happy that the Senator and the
Consul are here to address the matters of immigration and issues of economics
and politics, because there is such a need to look at questions of culture
and history. The piece pointed out that there has been a presence, an
Hispano, Latino, Mexicano presence here in Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming for
at least 150 years and, in fact, considerably longer than that. Peoples
have been wandering these continents of what we call North and South America
now for 40,000 years. So, our country, the countries of Americas, are
overlays of that history and in part, Latinos are called upon now to recover
that history for ourselves and not just to benefit our own communities.
It is a testimony that in a sense we are obligated to share with our fellow
Americans or Americans of the United States and the Americanos
of the greater continental spread of the nations of the Western hemisphere.
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