Transcript
Estella Zamora
President, Idaho Human Rights Commission
I am a very emotional person and when I speak I try to speak from my heart
and the discussion this evening has been just overwhelming for me and
somewhat painful. I am concerned with some of the comments about "let's
not talk about that" or "we don't want to touch that" or
"we don't want to go there." I am really concerned that there
are some issues in your community that may get swept under the rug and
not brought forth, and I feel like if we don't deal with the issues that
are the concerns of the community, then we are not going to get where
you need to be or where you want to be. I just felt like that when Liliam
said, "Let's not talk about immigration," and "as far as
the English language, let's not push that or the Spanish language."
I am glad that we can come together and we can talk about issues. It is
very important, and one of the things that I work for in my community
is trying to bring people together, to bring issues to the forefront.
We may agree on some issues, we may not agree on others and that's fine.
We all have the same goals, we all want to move forward, we all have an
idea of where our communities need to be and working together, we will
get there.
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