Podcasts about Mestizo

Term to denote a person with European and Native American blood

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E Society Podcast
Interview with Mestizo. (2025)

E Society Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025 26:07


This episode Nez sits down with DJ/beat maker MESTIZO talk music, life and beat production.Hit up E Society on Facebook.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/ESocietyPodcast/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ESP Podbean feed:https://macnezpodcast.podbean.comE Society YouTube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCliC6x_a7p3kTV_0LC4S10A⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠E Society and Mac-Nez t-shirts Tee Public:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://tee.pub/lic/9ko9r4p5uvE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X:@esocietypod@macnezpod@TheoZissouInstagram:@esocietypod@thezissou@macnezpodNez and Taylor Blu-ray IG pages:@bluraynez@blurayterrorTikTok:@esocietypodCheck out Taylor and Nez's new podcast:Old Dawg New Trickz⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/319KRWiJfGpMbFBLTp6E8P⁠⁠⁠Please follow ESP family Chris and Breezy at their YouTube page for Resting Easy with Chris and Breezy⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@RECB⁠⁠⁠

E Society Podcast
The Best Hip-Hop Movies

E Society Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 142:36


This episode we rundown the Best Hip-Hop Movies from Complex.com. Link to article below.https://www.complex.com/music/a/julian-kimble/best-hip-hop-moviesHit up E Society on Facebook.⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/ESocietyPodcast/⁠⁠⁠⁠ESP Podbean feed:https://macnezpodcast.podbean.comE Society YouTube:⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCliC6x_a7p3kTV_0LC4S10A⁠⁠⁠⁠E Society and Mac-Nez t-shirts Tee Public:⁠⁠⁠⁠http://tee.pub/lic/9ko9r4p5uvE⁠⁠⁠⁠X:@esocietypod@macnezpod@TheoZissouInstagram:@esocietypod@thezissou@macnezpodNez and Taylor Blu-ray IG pages:@bluraynez@blurayterrorTikTok:@esocietypodCheck out Taylor and Nez's new podcast:Old Dawg New Trickz⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/319KRWiJfGpMbFBLTp6E8P⁠Please follow ESP family Chris and Breezy at their YouTube page for Resting Easy with Chris and Breezy⁠https://www.youtube.com/@RECB⁠ Intro/Outro Music by Mestizo.

E Society Podcast
E Society Podcast - 1970's Controversial Movies.

E Society Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 63:03


This episode we run down a list from Ranker: The Most Controversial Movies for the 1970's.Hit up E Society on Facebook.⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/ESocietyPodcast/⁠⁠⁠E Society YouTube:⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCliC6x_a7p3kTV_0LC4S10A⁠⁠⁠E Society and Mac-Nez t-shirts Tee Public:⁠⁠⁠http://tee.pub/lic/9ko9r4p5uvE⁠⁠⁠X:@esocietypod@macnezpod@TheoZissouInstagram:@esocietypod@thezissou@macnezpodNez and Taylor Blu-ray IG pages:@bluraynez@blurayterrorTikTok:@esocietypodCheck out Taylor and Nez's new podcast:Old Dawg New Trickz⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/319KRWiJfGpMbFBLTp6E8PPlease follow ESP family Chris and Breezy at their YouTube page for Resting Easy with Chris and Breezyhttps://www.youtube.com/@RECB Intro/Outro Music by Mestizo.

NuDirections
MESTIZO SOUNDS PRESENTS MIX MARCH 25

NuDirections

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 63:58


NuDirections
MESTIZO SOUNDS PRESENTS FOLK TALES

NuDirections

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2025 72:53


The new programme by Mestizo Sounds focuses on folk music, mainly sixties and seventies. The idea for this programme is due to the new feature film “A Complete Unknown” about Bob Dylan's early days until he abandons the folk structures. The Folk scene was the catalyst for the most brilliant composers in the music revolution of the sixties. I hope the listener appreciates the selected music and agrees that Folk Music Matters! Soon, a new programme featuring more contemporary folk music will follow. Info  Website - www.jazzmattersuk.com For all social media links and more visit my Linkhub. https://www.jazzmattersuk.com/linkhub Jazz Matters Info - https://www.jazzmattersuk.com/about Email - jazzmattersuk@mail.com #OnDemand #FreeToStream https://pod.co/nudirections PLAYLIST 1- Ligh Flight - PENTANGLE (Great Britain) 2- April Rain - KAREN BETH (United States) 3- På Tredje Dagen Uppståndna - TURID (Sweden) 4- Who Knows Where the Time goes - Sandy Denny & The Strawbs (Great Britain) 5- The Dolphins - FRED NEIL (United States) 6- Something on your mind - KAREN DALTON (United States) 7- What are you going to do about me? - RICHIE HAVENS (United States) 8- Way before the times - HOYT AXTON (United States) 9- Northern Sky - NICK DRAKE (Great Britain) 10- La Canción- SILVIO RODRIGUEZ (Cuba) 11- Hummingbird - DAVY GRAHAM 12- Scarborough Fair - MARTIN CARTHY (Great Britain) 13- The Circle Game - JONI MITCHELL (United States) 14- Viola Fora de Moda - EDU LOBO (Brazil) 15- God Loves a Drunk - NORMA WATERSON (Great Britain) 16- Raggle Taggle Gypsy (Tabhair Dom Do Lamh) - PLANXTY (Ireland) 17- Seven Curses - BOB DYLAN (United States) 18- Love Will Tears Apart - JUNE TABOR & OYSTERBAND (Great Britain)

NuDirections
MESTIZO SOUNDS PRESENTS MOMENTS 2024

NuDirections

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2025 86:56


 My Moments of 2024 is a selection of songs that have created special musical marks. 3 groups of artists have a very significant input this year. Fontaines DC, Kutiman and Ezra Collective have been my favourite artists for 2024. I have not only included music from this current year as it is not the music made in one specific year the only one we pay attention and my criteria for this compilation of great tunes is what music has stopped me in my tracks and made an impact on me as a listener. Moments 2024 is definitely not background music. The final song is an astonishing cover of the 1970s hit "Why Can't We Live Together" with a beautiful chorus of female singers chanting No More Wars, No More Wars. It makes a suitable final to a year of human tragedies inflicted through conflict finishes. You can say louder but never so beautifully stated. I hope the listener to Mestizo Sounds appreciate and enjoy Moments 2024. Essential Information Playlist: 1- Sunny - FONTAINES DC 2- Canoe - KUTIMAN 3- I will always try - GURU NILE and JOE YORKE 4- I'd rather go blind - THE FRIGHTNRS 5- Segla - ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO DE COTONOU 6- Hear me cry - EZRA COLLECTIVE 7- Street is calling - EZRA COLLECTIVE (featuring MANIFEST and MOONCHILD SONELLY) 8- Better way to live - KNEECAP (featuring GRIAN CHATTEN) 9- Sundowner - FONTAINES DC 10- La mamá - REYNA TROPICAL 11- Miralas - MARUJA LIMON (APELIKA remix) 12- Breathe the love - KUTIMAN 13- God gave me feet for dancing - EZRA COLLECTIVE (featuring YAZMIN LAZEY) 14- My everything - KUTIMAN (featuring DEKEL) 15- Favourite - FONTAINES DC 16- Superkilen - SVANENBORG KARDYB 17- Give - CONOR CURLEY (FONTAINES DC remix) 18- Why can't we live together - BUKKY LEO & BLACK EGYPT (SAO BENITEZ BV Dub)

Compendio de Audiolibros Nuria Rodo
Harry Potter y el misterio del príncipe. Cap 5 y 6

Compendio de Audiolibros Nuria Rodo

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2024 82:56


Con dieciséis años cumplidos, Harry inicia el sexto curso en Hogwarts en medio de terribles acontecimientos que asolan Inglaterra. Elegido capitán del equipo de quidditch, los entrenamientos, los exámenes y las chicas ocupan todo su tiempo, pero la tranquilidad dura poco. A pesar de los férreos controles de seguridad que protegen la escuela, dos alumnos son brutalmente atacados. Dumbledore sabe que se acerca el momento, anunciado por la Profecía, en que Harry y Voldemort se enfrentarán a muerte. El anciano director solicitará la ayuda de Harry y juntos emprenderán peligrosos viajes para intentar debilitar al enemigo, para lo cual el joven mago contará con la ayuda de un viejo libro de pociones perteneciente a un misterioso príncipe, alguien que se hace llamar Príncipe Mestizo.

Aderezo
Recetas de Guanajuato a través de Sara Arvizu

Aderezo

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2024 18:54


Entrevista a Sara Arvizu, cocinera tradicional que se dedica a preservar y difundir el patrimonio gastronómico de San José de Iturbide, Guanajuato, donde nació.Con más de una década de trayectoria en el mundo de la gastronomía, cuenta su trayectoria en el ámbito culinario.Su especialidad se centra en la cocina tradicional, específicamente de la región Noreste del estado de Guanajuato, donde inicia su interés por el mestizaje gastronómico, el cual se convirtió en una apasionada investigación.En 2019, fundó la Asociación Civil Mestizaje Gastronómico Iturbidense, con el objetivo de preservar la gastronomía tradicional del municipio de San José Iturbide, Guanajuato; este mismo año, logró el registro de marca del Festival Gastronómico Mestizo, que en sus 5 ediciones ha integrado la participación de cocineras tradicionales, artesanos y expositores de esta región.Consulta este y otros deliciosos temas en Aderezo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The 6th Floor Show
Episode 265

The 6th Floor Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2024 186:36


Rachel Jane - Easily6th Floor feat. Nehanda & Chey - You Bring The SunJ Faith feat. Vincent Tesoro & D-Rock - Carry MeSankofa feat. Money Mogly - Tiny DiamondsReks & Greve feat. Guilty Simpson & Reef The Lost Cauze - SavageAaron G feat. Culprit, Big Donzz, Aybe & JB - 100 MoreDotz & DJ Goblin - I Don't Wanna Talk About ItTekky feat. Shadoh - VengeanceSoul31 - The CarouselEff Yoo feat. Homeboy Sandman - HumdingerJae Hussle & ManZu Beatz - Do Me WrongFatboi Dash - New RaceYechi - Tridents WatchMartinese - Hate To Let You GoFreestyle Session - Street Da VillanJamar Rashod & Skinee G - SlideSUNMGNETK & Jupiter Grey - FadingLucci Rich - How Could I Ever LoseMemphis Reigns feat. Mestizo & Uptown Swuite - FigmentsMicwise - The MenuWoodyYurr feat. Crunch Tymerz - God BodyEclyse feat. Moka Only - Cold Chillin'Unison - Rough SeasNew Serum & Manefesto - Far From HomeThought Provokah - Kid (Killing Infininte Dreams)K Banger x Big Es - Don't Let ItSkuff - KrimsonD-Moe - I.R.DEvaize feat. 8ch2owens & Serum - Nuclear FusionMike Titan, Crotona P & Odd Pilot feat. Fazeonerock & Tali Rodriguez - The Cru's Behind MeBrian Hobbs feat. Charliee - Thoughts Of YouDJ Heron feat. Orion aka Brassballs - The PastoraleLayal - Darabat

Compendio de Audiolibros Nuria Rodo
Harry Potter y el misterio del príncipe. Cap 3 y 4

Compendio de Audiolibros Nuria Rodo

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2024 74:36


Con dieciséis años cumplidos, Harry inicia el sexto curso en Hogwarts en medio de terribles acontecimientos que asolan Inglaterra. Elegido capitán del equipo de quidditch, los entrenamientos, los exámenes y las chicas ocupan todo su tiempo, pero la tranquilidad dura poco. A pesar de los férreos controles de seguridad que protegen la escuela, dos alumnos son brutalmente atacados. Dumbledore sabe que se acerca el momento, anunciado por la Profecía, en que Harry y Voldemort se enfrentarán a muerte. El anciano director solicitará la ayuda de Harry y juntos emprenderán peligrosos viajes para intentar debilitar al enemigo, para lo cual el joven mago contará con la ayuda de un viejo libro de pociones perteneciente a un misterioso príncipe, alguien que se hace llamar Príncipe Mestizo.

NuDirections
Mestizo Sounds presents HER.

NuDirections

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2024 59:20


 HER is a new show by Mestizo Sounds, featuring an eclectic music compilation that captures the essence of modern times from a diverse female perspective. Essential Info Website and dive into Blogs, interviews Content, Music, Videos and Images - https://www.jazzmattersuk.com Music free to stream - https://pod.co/nudirections All social media links and more – https://www.jazzmattersuk.com/linkhub Email - jazzmattersuk@gmail.com PLAYLIST 1- Cranes in the sky - SOLANGE (American) 2- This time around - JESSICA PRATT (American) 3- Saga - HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF (Puerto Rican-American) 4- Co-star - AMAARAE (GHANAIAN-AMERICAN) 5- Lo siento - REYNA TROPICAL (Mexican-American) 6- N.Y.C.A.W - GWENNO (Cornish/Welsh-British) 7- Wandering mind - CAOILFHIONN ROSE (Irish/English/British) 8- Mohabbat - AROOJ AFTAB (Pakistani-American) 9- Doesn't matter - MESKEREEM MEES (Ethiopian-Belgian) 10- Daylight matters - CATE LE BON (Welsh-British) 11- Uma história de Ifá - VIRGINIA RODRIGUES (Brazilian) 12- No fun/party - KARA JACKSON (American) 13- In your head - NILÜFER YANIA (Turkish-Barbadian-Irish-British) 14- Sete - FATOUMATA DIAWARA (Malian)

Southern Vangard
Episode 415 - Southern Vangard Radio

Southern Vangard

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 118:48


BANG! @southernvangard radio Ep415! It's all the way live this week Vangardians, folks are unloading clips before the year is out, and we have a gob of sure shots this week, including a nice preview of the new DJ MUGGS X CRIMEAPPLE X RLX album that drops this week. We also snuck in an early preview of an upcoming DOECINO banger(!!!!!!) to wrap up the show. Last call for this weekend at Crafts & Crates on Sat Oct 19 at Halfway Crooks here in in Atlanta - our own Eddie Meeks & DJ Pocket will be ripping up the stage alongside other greats from the Atlanta underground. Never forget YOU WAAAAALCOME!!!!! #SmithsonianGrade #WeAreTheGard // southernvangard.com // @southernvangard on all platforms #hiphop #undergroundhiphop #boombap ---------- Recorded live October 15, 2024 @ Dirty Blanket Studios, Marietta, GA southernvangard.com @southernvangard on all platforms #SmithsonianGrade #WeAreTheGard twitter/IG: @southernvangard @jondoeatl @cappuccinomeeks ---------- Pre-Game Beats - Bugseed "Southern Vangard Theme" - Bobby Homack & The Southern Vangard All-Stars Talk Break Inst. - "Yesteryear" - Digital Martyrs "Kenny Lofton" - Big Trip & Jamil Honesty "Raw Crack" - Terrorvanpoo x Bernadette Price (prod. CNR JAXX) "Elegant" - DJ Rude One ft. Roc Marciano "Gun Play" - Pro Dillinger & Futurewave "Steiner Math" - Sayzee "Straightback Santiago" - Mutant Academy "Gold Mouth" - Big Trip & Jamil Honesty Talk Break Inst. - "Figments" - Digital Martyrs "Dangerous" - Bobby J from Rockaway & Dom Dirtee (cuts DJ Evil Dee) "Figments" - Memphis Reigns ft. Mestizo, Uptown Swuite (prod. Digital Martyrs) "3 X Blessed" - Carta P & Fred Ones ft. Aaqil Ali & Queen Herawin "Funk-O-Mart" - The High & Mighty ft. Chubb Rock "Funk-O-Mart - (Smoove Remix)" The High & Mighty ft. Chubb Rock "Jacket Fulla Medalz" - Ras Ceylon x Timbo King x Dawit Justice "Kundalini" - Mosik Rhymes ft. Crimeapple "Vibe" - Terrorvanpoo ft. Leanah Cane & Tons "World Premier" - Kil Ripkin x Jah Freedom Talk Break Inst. - "Shibuya" Digital Martyrs "Moose Hands" - Sayzee ft. Ayoo Bigz "Move Silent" - Squeegie Oblong & Chuck Chan ft. Spoda & King Author "2 To The Chest" - DJ Muggs x Crimeapple x RLX "Unbreakable ft. Primo Profit" - DJ Muggs x Crimeapple x RLX "Don Eladio Vuente" - DJ Muggs x Crimeapple x RLX "Never Get Her Back" - Curren$y & DJ Fresh ft. Premo Rice Talk Break Inst. - "Per Diem" - Digital Martyrs "Together" - DOECINO (Eddie Meeks & DJ Jon Doe)

Hoy por Hoy
La mirada | Nuestro mundo será mestizo o no será nada

Hoy por Hoy

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2024 2:22


Ay, vieja Europa, cambalache. Qué fácil nos fue, a partir del siglo diecinueve, ponernos de acuerdo para invadir y saquear aquellos países desde los que nos llegan los refugiados y desposeídos del presente. Qué fácil nos resulta, también, volver a calarnos, sin dudarlo, el salacot colonial del hombre blanco. Y qué asco da. En general.

Shake the Dust
MAGA vs. the Church on Immigration with Robert Chao Romero, Plus an Election News Catch-Up

Shake the Dust

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2024 62:08


On today's episode, Jonathan and Sy have a catch-up conversation on the assassination attempt, the Vance VP pick, Biden stepping down, and Harris stepping up. Then they talk with UCLA professor Robert Chao Romero about:-        What everyday life was like for immigrants during Trump's administration-        How MAGA Christians' treatment of immigrants reveals a lack of spiritual discernment-        What Professor Romero would say to immigrants who think voting won't make a difference-        And the complicated, diverse politics of Latine voters in AmericaMentioned in the Episode-            Our anthology, Keeping the Faith-            Tamice Spencer-Helms reading an excerpt of Faith Unleavened-            Professor Romero's Instagram-            And his book, Brown ChurchCredits-            Follow KTF Press on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Subscribe to get our bonus episodes and other benefits at KTFPress.com.-        Follow host Jonathan Walton on Facebook Instagram, and Threads.-        Follow host Sy Hoekstra on Mastodon.-        Our theme song is “Citizens” by Jon Guerra – listen to the whole song on Spotify.-        Our podcast art is by Robyn Burgess – follow her and see her other work on Instagram.-        Editing by Multitude Productions-        Transcripts by Joyce Ambale and Sy Hoekstra.-        Production by Sy Hoekstra and our incredible subscribersTranscriptIntroduction[An acoustic guitar softly plays six notes in a major scale, the first three ascending and the last three descending, with a keyboard pad playing the tonic in the background. Both fade out as Jonathan Walton says “This is a KTF Press podcast.”]Robert Romero: In the context of the life of worship, we are to reflect upon scripture, upon the 2000-year-old tradition of the church, and to add Latino theology, en conjunto, or in community, with the local church, with the global church, with the church that's there with Jesus right now, even. And there has to be a continuity, a harmony between new scriptural interpretations and our ancestors that have gone before us. And so if you just run that test [laughs], that criteria, the MAGA movement through that doesn't make any sense.[The song “Citizens” by Jon Guerra fades in. Lyrics: “I need to know there is justice/ That it will roll in abundance/ And that you're building a city/ Where we arrive as immigrants/ And you call us citizens/ And you welcome us as children home.” The song fades out.]Jonathan Walton: Welcome to Shake the Dust, seeking Jesus confronting injustice. I'm Jonathan Walton.Sy Hoekstra: And I am Sy Hoekstra. This is gonna be an interesting episode. Today we're breaking our format a little bit because just so many things have happened since the last time that we recorded. I don't know if you've noticed, Jonathan, a couple of things happened in the news [laughs] since the last time we recorded this show.Jonathan Walton: A few historical events.Sy Hoekstra: Just a few historical events. So we're still gonna have an interview with one of the authors from the anthology that we published on Theology and Politics. This week it will be Robert Chao Romero, who is a lawyer, history PhD, professor, pastor, activist. No big deal, the usual combination of the regular career path that everyone takes. But before we do that, we are going to spend some time talking about the assassination attempts on Donald Trump, the JD Vance pick for Vice President, Joe Biden stepping down, the almost certain nomination of Kamala Harris. And while we will probably talk about a couple of the resources that we've highlighted in our newsletter on those subjects, we're not gonna formally do our Which Tab Is Still Open this time around. There's just too much…Jonathan Walton: There's a lot. There's a lot.Sy Hoekstra: …to talk about, and we wanted to get all that in. Plus the really, really great interview with Professor Romero. But before we get into all of that, Jonathan.Jonathan Walton: Hey, if you like what you hear and read from KTF Press and would like for it to continue beyond the election season, please go to KTFPress.com and become a paid subscriber, and encourage others to do the same. We've got a ways to go before we're going to have enough people to sustain the work we're doing after the election. So if that's you, go to KTFPress.com, sign up, become a paid subscriber, and then tell a friend to do the same thing. That gets you all the bonus episodes of this show, access to our monthly Zoom chats with the two of us and some other great subscribers. And so go to KTFPress.com and subscribe.The Assassination Attempt on Donald TrumpSy Hoekstra: Alright Jonathan. Let's start with the big one. Well, no, they're all big ones.Jonathan Walton: No, they're all big for different people, for different reasons [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: For very different reasons.Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: The assassination attempt in Pennsylvania at the rally, just before the RNC. The media reaction to this, Jonathan, has struck me as a little bit odd. I don't know what you've been thinking, but let's hear what you're thinking, what your reaction to the assassination attempt was and to the conversation around it.Not Taking Part in the News Spectacle of the AssassinationJonathan Walton: Yeah. So my immediate reaction was, okay, if this had happened in 2016, I think I would've pulled my phone up and writing things, processing, trying to figure things out, all those kinds of things. When I heard this news, I was on the beach in California with my family, and I honestly was not troubled. And that was weird to me. I was not worried, I was not concerned. I thought to myself, “Man, if I was orienting my life around the decisions of Donald Trump and the Republican Party, I would probably be losing my insert word [laughs], but I'm not.” And I also thought about, oh, if I am someone on the quote- unquote left, my brain would be spinning. How is this gonna be politically, what's the impact? Blah, blah, blah. And I just wasn't. And so in that immediate moment, I felt empathy for folks that were feeling that type of dissonance.And the way that I felt towards Donald Trump actually came from a conversation I had with Priscilla, because she was sharing and just the reality that we don't want to participate in the spectacle of it. Reality in TV is an oxymoron that shouldn't exist. Our lives are not entertainment. The intimacies of life should not be broadcast and monetized and commented on as though all of us are all of a sudden now in a glass, I mean [laughs], to reference not the book, but just the image. But that all of us are now like a glass menagerie that we can just observe one another and comment as if we're not people. Those are the initial feelings that I had.Why Wasn't the Shooter Considered Suspicious?Jonathan Walton: The last feeling that I had was actually highlighted by someone from our emotionality activist cohort. He said that he felt angry because the shooter was labeled as suspicious, but not dangerous. And he said, if this had been a BIPOC person, Black, indigenous person of color, there would've absolutely been a response.Sy Hoekstra: Especially at a Trump rally.Jonathan Walton: At a Trump rally, there would've been a response to a suspicious person of color. That would've been fundamentally different place as evidenced by the very real reality, I think a few days later at an event where there was a Black person that was killed by the police [laughs] near a political rally. So I think there, no, there was an altercation, there was a very real threat of violence between these two people, but the responses to Black people and people of color and the impoverished and all these different things that it, it's just a fundamentally different thing because they saw this 20-year-old kid who isn't old enough to buy alcohol, but old enough to get his hands on an AR-15 to scope out a place and shoot someone wasn't seen as a threat. And I think that is a unique frustration and anger, because I hadn't thought about that, but I hold that too.Sy Hoekstra: Just to emphasize that he was, the local police officers actually did try and flag this person as someone who was suspicious. They didn't do anything about it, but they noted it. You know what I mean?Jonathan Walton: Yeah, yeah, yeah.Sy Hoekstra: Which is even more… Like his behavior was suspicious enough for him to be noticed by law enforcement, but they didn't actually do anything, and then they reported it to whoever was running campaign security, and they didn't do anything about it either.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: And I don't know. Yes, that is a good and sad point, and I appreciate you bringing it up.We Have to Insist on the Value of Trump's LifeJonathan Walton: Well, what about for you?Sy Hoekstra: I mean, I guess my response to, two different angles of response to it. One is to anybody, I know there are people out there who are like, “Trump is a fascist, Trump is a threat to democracy, I just wish he'd been hit in the head.” And I don't think anyone in, I haven't heard anybody in the mainstream media or politicians or anyone saying that, because that would be too far for them in their [laughs] policies and their politeness and all that. But there are people thinking it, and I just, I don't know. I just have to say that we can't do that.Jonathan Walton: Absolutely not.Sy Hoekstra: We can't be the people who dehumanize somebody to that degree. I agree that he's a fascist and that he wants to, and that he is a huge threat to our democracy and all of that. But to then say, “I wish he was dead,” that puts you on his level. That makes you like him, the person who mocks when other people have had assassination attempts on them, like Nancy Pelosi or Gretchen Whitmer. Or who encourages and stands behind all the people who were in the January 6th riot that did actually kill people, right?Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: You don't become him, is what I'm saying to anybody who's thought or been tempted to have those thoughts. We still have to stick to the image of God and everybody as a principal. Even when it's genuinely tempting not to, because there are serious considerations on the other side of that argument [laughs] if that makes sense.Jonathan Walton: Yes, yes.Sy Hoekstra: It's a terrible thing to talk about, but it's, I think it's worth addressing.Jonathan Walton: Absolutely.We Do Not Need to Tone Down Our Rhetoric about Trump's Threat to DemocracySy Hoekstra: But I also have to say the opposite side of like, we must call for unity. We must call to lower the political rhetoric and the political temperature. When it comes to Donald Trump, that is ridiculous.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: That is a, you can't do that [laughter]. And the reason is, first of all, he's the one mocking other people's attempts that have happened on their lives, or riots that actually led to people dying, right?Jonathan Walton: Yes. Yes.Sy Hoekstra: So for him or the people who support him to say, “Oh, now we need to call for unity or rhetoric to come down,” it's hypocritical on their part. Now, that doesn't matter. I'm not trying to just be like whatabouting the Republicans. But the issue is like, there's different kinds of heated political rhetoric. When you obviously accuse somebody of being a threat to democracy, that's a charged statement for sure that you shouldn't say lightly. However, the people who are arguing it now are arguing it on the basis of Donald Trump's words and actions [laughs]. They're making a real good faith argument based on actual evidence. It's heated nonsense political rhetoric when Donald Trump says that there's an invasion at the southern border…Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: …and you're just painting poor people who are fleeing violence, trying to find safety in an opportunity in America as invaders who are here to, well, like he said, killers and rapists and drug dealers and whatever.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: When you're just painting with a broad brush, when you're creating stereotypes, when you're just trying to slide people into a category, that's dehumanization and that's what can lead to violence. When you're actually making an argument against something that people have actually done, like words that people have said and actions that they have taken, that's a different story. And it is true that in a country of 320 million people, even if you make a good faith argument based on facts, that somebody's a threat to democracy, somebody might take that as a reason to shoot at them. But that's not anything over which we have any control.Jonathan Walton: No.Sy Hoekstra: That doesn't mean you stop saying things that are true because they're… you know what I mean? That then I wouldn't say anything about anybody. I would just keep my mouth shut all the time. I can't make any arguments about anything because what if somebody just happens to at the wrong moment take that as license to go attack somebody?Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: So all of that stuff seemed like nonsense to me. And then people were like, “Oh, don't talk about how it's gonna help his campaign.” Of course, it's gonna help his campaign. And of course the Republicans are going to use it to help his campaign. We need to be realistic about what we're talking about here [laughs] in the context of our conversation. So I think those were my reactions to all of this. I think because as soon as he was shot at, I, because he wasn't hit, I knew he was fine. So I wasn't particularly scared about it. I didn't have like a lot of emotions around the thing itself, because the guy missed him [laughs].Americans Condemning Political Violence is HypocrisyJonathan Walton: Yeah. I think I'll also say too, it's the idea that all of a sudden, we are gonna step out and condemn political violence, let's be clear. There's an exceptional level of political violence enacted by the United States every single day against its own people, against people around the world. There are 900 bases where political violence is happening. We tried to assassinate a leader a few months ago in the Congo. Let's be clear that the reality of that statement too is just ridiculously hypocritical and ignorant.Sy Hoekstra: Yep.Jonathan Walton: Right. Like just Biden did rattle off some political violence that I think we, the quote- unquote dominant cultural narrative is okay with calling out, but we also have to just name the reality that we are actively participating in things that are politically violent.Sy Hoekstra: All the time.Jonathan Walton: Yeah [laughs] all the time. For example [laughs], Biden said, oh, yeah, we're not gonna ship bombs to Israel anymore, and the reality is we shipped thousands of bombs.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. Yeah.Jonathan Walton: That level of comfort with ignorance and hypocrisy and the dissemination, or just sharing that widely, is also something not about the event itself, but our dominant narrative response and the legacy media's response was just, that was disheartening to say the least.Sy Hoekstra: It's a very good point. And I would point out that Trump himself had a general in Iran assassinated [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Right. Yes.Sy Hoekstra: It's just like, it's complete nonsense.Jonathan Walton: He did. Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: For us to be like, “Where does political violence come from in America? I don't know.”Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: The many presidential assassinations and lynchings and pogroms and everything else. Like what? I don't know.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: We should note, by the way, as I'm listening to you talk, Jonathan's at home and children are not in school, they're home from daycare [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Oh, yes. Yes. Our house is very full. Thank you for being gracious.Sy Hoekstra: You'll hear some adorable little voices in the background. I'm sure everyone will enjoy it all.The VP Pick of J. D. VanceSy Hoekstra: Jonathan, let's talk JD Vance. What are you thinking about this pick [laughs]?Vance Is Everything Trump Wishes He Was, and Could Lead for a Long TimeJonathan Walton: Oh, Lord! I think the thing that bothers me about JD Vance, as my daughter screams [laughs], is Donald Trump picked someone who reflects all of the values that he has and wants to espouse.Sy Hoekstra: Yep.Jonathan Walton: So Donald Trump would love to say that he grew up poor and is a working class man, all those things. He's not, but JD Vance, quote- unquote, is. He desperately wants to say he made it and served his country and all the… No, he didn't.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: But JD Vance is a Marine and quote- unquote actually built a business. Now, JD Vance is also exceptionally misogynistic, exceptionally patriarchal, exceptionally individualistic in the way that Bootstrap Republicanism tries to embody itself. And so he chose someone at the same time that did not have the apprentice. That did not go on reality television. That did not spend his life entertaining people, so I think he is going to be taken seriously, which is why he's dragging Donald Trump in the polls. I think what happened is the wholesale remaking of a section of the Republican party that has now taken it over, and he chose a leader that could be the voice of that for the next 25 years. And that I think is sad [laughs] because I do believe in a pluralistic society where people can share ideas and wrestle and make good faith arguments and argue for change and all those things.So I don't want some one party event that happens. At the same time, I think it is exceptionally unnerving and unsettling and destabilizing for someone who holds such views against women that we will absolutely see, obviously when we talk about Kamala Harris. But what he, what Donald Trump blessed and sent out, JD Vance will now bless and send out for the next few decades at least. And that if you wanted to give a new, like a reiteration of Strom Thurmond, here we go. He's 38, he could be talking and on TV and doing things for the next 50 years, and that is deeply unsettling for me.Vance Is a Sellout, but That Probably Won't Matter MuchSy Hoekstra: It's also interesting that he's someone who's doing it as a sellout.Jonathan Walton: Oh, yeah. A thousand percent.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. Meaning he was not… he was a never Trumper for a while. He called Trump possibly America's Hitler at one point. And now he totally turned around once he ran for Senate because he saw where the wind was blowing.Jonathan Walton: Exactly.Sy Hoekstra: If nothing else, his Silicon Valley background lets him understand disruption and how to capitalize on uncertainty and when things are changing [laughs]. So yeah, that's an interesting one to me. I kind of wondered if that would make Trumpers not trust him or even not trust Trump, because he isn't… So much of the Trump worldview that he tries to inculcate in people is us versus them, and we need to demand loyalty because there's so much danger out there coming at us. And so a guy who flip flops to become a pro-Trump person, like a lot of… I don't know, there have been a lot of politicians like that who have been distrusted, but maybe he's just famous enough that it doesn't matter. I'm not sure. We'll see as it goes on. There's a possibility that he weakens the enthusiasm of Trump voters, but I don't actually know.Jonathan Walton: They chanted “Hang Mike Pence.” So I don't put that beyond them, beyond anybody.Sy Hoekstra: I see. They can always separate Trump from anybody else, basically.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: He's the exception no matter what [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Right, right, right.Vance Helps with the Tech World, but He's Unexperienced and Hasn't Accomplished MuchSy Hoekstra: Another thing about him is, well, there's a couple of things. One is he is, he was a pick, at least in part to court tech billionaires. He's a Peter Thiel protege. He's basically promising to deregulate all kinds of tech related things. He is helping Trump secure the support of Musk and Zuckerberg and everybody else.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: So, I don't know. He was a strategic pick in that sense, I guess. He's also one that was a strategic pick when they were facing Joe Biden.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: Which they're not anymore, and it's an interesting, I don't know, it'll be a different kind of calculation. Now, I've heard some rumblings that some Republicans kind of regret the choice at this point because [laughs] it's gonna be such a different race.Jonathan Walton: Yeah, yeah. Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: It's also incredible to me that the entire Republican ticket now has a total of six years of government experience [laughter]. It's just like, so Trump has done it for four years. Vance has done it for two, that's all we got. Six years.Jonathan Walton: Right, right.Sy Hoekstra: Kamala's got that beat like by multiples, by herself with no running mates [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Yeah. Right, right, right.Sy Hoekstra: So anyways, that's just kind of a remarkable thing. Vance is also totally, he hasn't done much in the Senate in terms of bills that he's introduced, but he has introduced things that haven't gone anywhere that are just like a bunch of transphobic and anti-DEI and all that kind of legislation. So he's been not doing much, but ideologically on doing the kinds of things that Trump wants a senator to do. So that's another part of the pick, which is also depressing. But let's move on from that sad one.Jonathan Walton: [laughs].Biden Stepping Down, Harris Taking OverSy Hoekstra: Jonathan, what are we thinking about Biden stepping down and the almost certain, possibly the only legal available nomination of [laughter] Kamala Harris to be the President of the United States?The Dynamics of White Boomers Passing Power to Younger BIPOCJonathan Walton: So, yeah, the first thing that I thought of when Biden said he was stepping down was that I knew he was gonna step down when he got COVID.Sy Hoekstra: Huh.Jonathan Walton: I think that's a very interesting thing because when we were in California traveling this past few weeks, we knew four families that got COVID. And then I checked the numbers and I realized, oh, like the numbers in cities are going up because they're still testing water, right? And obviously the most susceptible people are older people and people with chronic health problems. And he is an older person [laughs]. Like, it was another thing…Sy Hoekstra: I don't know if you noticed.Jonathan Walton: …that says you're old, right? Like, and that, that Steve Bannon was right. He started the old train a long time ago, and it has run its course and run him out of the election. So I was not surprised that he was dropping out. The second thing about it though is, and I don't know if there's more writing about this. If you're listening to this and you have read some analysis or commentary, I'd love to read it. But I wonder how boomers are transitioning from positions of power, and if they are or not [laughs]. Because Joe Biden, I think, signifies a generation of people that don't know how to let go of power. And he said that in his speech. He said like, “I have to give up ambition.”And so I think that was an interesting, that's just an interesting thing to think about as there is a very significant, I think in the trillions of dollars' worth of transfers of wealth from that generation to their children and grandchildren. The billionaires that have been minted in the United States are just people inheriting money. So it's just a fundamentally different thing around wealth and power that's happening, I think, as it is power quote- unquote, is given from one older White man to a middle aged Black woman. Right? Black and South Asian. And so the other thing I thought about with Joe Biden is that he also was on the ticket that coordinated Obama.And so he's the meat in the middle of this sandwich that I think is also very interesting [laughs], that he leveraged his power to effectively potentially elect the first two Black presidents of the United States.Sy Hoekstra: Now, to be fair, he did run against the first one in the primary [laughs].Jonathan Walton: He did, and he lost, and then he joined a ticket, right?Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.What We Can and Can't be Grateful to Biden ForJonathan Walton: And so, I think it's interesting that that's a thing. I will also say, for all the people, left, right, center, wherever you place yourself, thanking him and praising him and all these different things, I'm just not on that train.Sy Hoekstra: Huh? Why?Jonathan Walton: I've thought a little bit about this, and I'm continuing to think about this, but there's a tension that I feel generally for the processes and the participation and the hard decisions that we have to make every day that require necessary compromise and then violence as a result. And so when we talk about being grateful for things, like, “Oh, Jonathan, aren't you grateful for like soldiers, or grateful for America?” And it's like, the first thought that I have is, thankful to who for what? Who am I thanking, what am I thanking them for? And I think it's because I just have this resistance, and I desire this purity that only is found in Jesus. This purity, this wonder, this beauty, this justice, this love that is blemishless, right? So I find myself, it's very difficult for me to be like, “Thank you Joe for this work that you did 10 years ago, this work you did five years ago.” It's hard. I'm just like, you know, thanks.Sy Hoekstra: Oh, I see.Jonathan Walton: Blessings on you on the rest of your life. I hope that you are able to flourish and receive all the things that God has. It's very general, very cursory. I don't carry this deep respect, appreciation or anything like that. And I think that just comes from like, I attach people to institutional violence and he represents a lot, a staggering amount of institutional violence. Even though he fought for lots of good things, it's like, yeah, it's hard for me to get on that appreciation bandwagon of the last 50 years of service.Sy Hoekstra: I totally understand that. I thought you were talking about, because a thing that I think you can acknowledge is difficult to do is to step down.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: In the situation that he's in, there are so many people telling him not to. It's so easy, especially if you have that ambition that he's obviously had his whole life.Jonathan Walton: For his whole life, yeah.Sy Hoekstra: Decades, he has wanted to be president, right?Jonathan Walton: [laughs]. Right.Sy Hoekstra: And he just wants to hang onto it and…Jonathan Walton: Let me into the sandbox! Let me in [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: And it's hard to just admit, “I'm tapped out guys. I can't do this anymore.”Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: That is not an easy thing to do. And I do, in spite of all the criticisms that I a hundred percent agree with you with about the time that he spent in the presidency and in Congress and everything else, that's hard. And I can acknowledge when somebody did something hard that is helpful for the country [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Yeah. Exactly. Exactly.Sy Hoekstra: And because it is hard, I did not expect it. It's interesting that you did, but I didn't know that was coming.Harris and Why Representation is ImportantSy Hoekstra: I also, when it comes to Harris, who by the way, I said Kamala earlier. I'm trying not to do that, because it can't be that the two, Hillary and Kamala, we use their first names. Everybody else we use their last names [laughs].Jonathan Walton: The soft misogyny. I hear you, you're right.Sy Hoekstra: Everybody calls her Kamala though. It's like hard not to.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: So I'm not the guy to explain why her running is so historically important in any detail, and there's gonna be a lot of very shallow attempts at talking about representation in the mainstream media. Which is why in the newsletter, I pointed people back to Tamice's book, because in the book that we published, Faith Unleavened, Tamice Spencer-Helms, the author, has a really great excerpt that we published and actually put as a episode of this podcast feed. I'll have the link in the show notes where she talks about, like Kamala Harris just comes at the end of the excerpt, but it's in the context of her talking about the stories of generations of women in her family and how they've served as a barrier or a bulwark against White religion and Whiteness destroying their lives.Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: And the story ends in a scene that has never once failed to make me tear up [laughs] even though I edited it like 15 times [laughter] when we were making the book. It ends with her and her grandmother, and her grandmother's basically on her deathbed watching Kamala Harris get sworn in as vice president. And she does an incredible job of emphasizing the power and meaning of something like that happening without really talking about it. You know what I mean? It just is because it's part of her story as she puts it, like the story that Blackness is telling in America. So it's very, very good. If you haven't read it, I would go back and just grab a couple of tissues.And for me, I won't just let that story sit there, and the fact that it is important to sit there, because look, I have a lot of criticisms of Kamala Harris' policies [laughs] as a former prosecutor, as her foreign policy, as all those kinds of things, and I am willing to let all of that sit in tension together. And I will move on with my life, but I don't know if you have more thoughts about that, Jonathan.Resisting the Bigotry that Is Coming for HarrisJonathan Walton: Yeah. The only thing that I would say, and actually it's already happening. But the level of anti-Black, anti-woman, racist, misogynistic, patriarchal flood that is about to happen, will be unprecedented.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: Online right now, even on Fox News, like on Fox News this morning, one of their commentators said, “Kamala Harris is the original ‘hawk tuah girl,' that's how she got to where she is.” Now, if you don't know what that is, I'm gonna explain it very quickly in ways that I hope are not dehumanizing to the person that actually did this and the people that it was said about. But there was a young woman who was taped on TikTok, who was asked about how to get a man more aroused. And she said, you gotta do that Hawk Tua, and that really gets them going. There's a slice of the internet, which we are all becoming more familiar with if you're online, that still desires the Girls Gone Wild videos of the 1990s, the centering of men constantly in sexual pleasure and relationships, and the picture of women only being able to succeed or excel if they are in service to men, and absolutely never achieving anything or earning anything on their own merit.And so I think Ketanji Brown Jackson, when she was certified and confirmed as a Supreme Court nominee, I think will give a slice of the anti DEI, anti CRT, anti-Black female, anti-female narrative, but that will pale in comparison to what we are about to see. And I think followers of Jesus need to resist that at every single level. At every single level if we can. Individual, in our own hearts, like us saying “Vice President Harris” is a way not to participate. Right? Like in an interpersonal level, like not… we have to check other people with this nonsense. And then in an institutional and ideological level, we actually need to communicate as followers of Jesus, that there is no place in the kingdom of God… and I would want to it to be nowhere in the world, for misogyny and misogynoir. Like this mix of anti-Blackness and anti-feminism and patriarchy. So that's the only other thing that I would say, is I just strongly desire in the most emphatic terms I can without using profanity that  [Sy laughs] we need to stand against them. We need to stand against that as followers of Jesus and people invested in the flourishing of other people and ourselves.Sy Hoekstra: It's going to happen. Like you said, it will be a ton. And just thinking back on all the absolute nonsense that was said about Obama over the eight years that he was president. I don't know how much we've progressed from there.Jonathan Walton: No.Sy Hoekstra: And so I just, it will be even worse…Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: As we've already seen, like you've said.Jonathan Walton: With all of that, there's a lot of things to process. There's frustration, anger, numbness, curiosity. Maybe some people are feeling peace. I don't know anybody who's feeling joyful about our political process right now. And so, as we are processing and trying to find hope in times of crisis and things that are difficult, I really want to commend to our listeners the resource that we created called Pace Yourself. So to pray, assess, collaborate, and establish, like to actually engage as a follower of Jesus in community for the long term.Sy Hoekstra: Yep.Jonathan Walton: If you are someone who's sitting here listening and thinking to yourself, “I need a resource like this, I want community like this, I want to engage in this way,” if you're a subscriber already, it's in your inbox. Just search [laughs] in your KTF Press and look through your newsletters that you've received every Thursday. Also, if you are not a subscriber, you could get it for free. Just go to KTFPress.com and become a free subscriber. And it'd be better if you became a paid subscriber, but [laughs] I understand if you don't wanna do that right now. But go to KTFPress.com, become a free subscriber and get that resource. And I also want to comment to you like, we do not have to do these things alone. And so if you are a paid subscriber, you could also join our monthly chats and conversations so that there's a space. It may not be at your church, it may not be at your job, it may not be at your kitchen table. You'll at least have a one-hour Zoom call to talk with some people who want to be redemptive forces in the world. So we'll lay that out there as well.Sy Hoekstra: Absolutely. We've had two of them and they've been really great.Jonathan Walton: Amazing.Sy Hoekstra: And we hope we see you all at the next one.Introducing the Interview Guest, Robert Chao RomeroJonathan Walton: Now we're gonna get into our great interview with Robert Chao Romero. Professor Romero is an associate professor in the UCLA departments of Chicano and Chicana studies. Also, the Central American Studies Department and the Asian American Studies Department. He received his PhD from UCLA and Latin American History. He's also a lawyer with a JD from UC Berkeley. Romero is the author of several books, including Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful, Constructive Conversation, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology and Identity, and The Chinese in Mexico: 1882-1940. The Chinese in Mexico received the best book award in Latino/ Latina studies from the Latin American Studies Association, and Brown Church received InterVarsity Press' Reader's' Choice Award for the best academic title.Romero is also an ordained minister and a faith rooted community organizer. Now, we talked to him about the everyday reality of the lives of immigrants under the Trump administration, what those lives tell us about the spiritual state of the MAGA movement, and the diverse and complicated politics of Latine voters in America. And guys, a lot more. Alright, let's get into the interview.[the intro piano music from “Citizens” by Jon Guerra plays briefly and then fades out.]Sy Hoekstra: Robert, thank you so much for joining us on Shake the Dust today.Robert Romero: It's great to reconnect after a while.The Everyday Suffering of Immigrants under TrumpSy Hoekstra: Yeah, thank you. Just to get started, let's take a… I don't know, a kind of sad walk down memory lane [laughs]. Thinking back to the Trump administration, obviously you have a lot of experience both in immigration, the immigration law world, and in just the world of immigrant churches. And I'm wondering if you could give people a reminder or a picture of what the immigration world was like during the Trump administration.Robert Romero: Sure, I can share a story of one of my students. So in the beginning of the Trump administration, I was teaching a big lecture class, like 400 students. And there was a young woman who came up to me after class one day and said, “Professor Romero, can I get the lecture slides from the last few classes?” And I'm like, “Yeah, sure. What's happening?” And she said, “My mom has papers, she has legal documentation, but she was swept up by an immigration raid in her workplace, and I had to go home and watch my kids, and it took six days before we could find her.”Sy Hoekstra: Oh, wow.Robert Romero: And that's when I knew, oh my gosh, this is gonna be really bad. And so one of the things that launched things off in the Trump world with regards to immigration was an executive order that he passed, which took away any type of prioritization with regards to deportation. Now, the Obama administration was no friend to immigrants, and that's another conversation. But in theory, at least the Obama administration had a prioritization as to kind of who immigration would target as priorities for deportation. And on top of that list before was people with serious criminal convictions, who were undocumented with serious criminal convictions, and then families were at the very bottom. And there was kind of this internal policy. What the Trump administration did through that executive order is take away any type of prioritization, as imperfect as that prioritization was.So my student's mother and the people at her workplace, families, people who had worked in the US for 30 years, they were put on the same level and prioritization as someone who had many serious criminal offenses, for example. And I can tell you that also happened with Pastor Noe Carias that we worked with. He was an Assemblies of God pastor who came to the US in the eighties fleeing civil war. He had his own business, US citizen wife and two US citizen kids, and he was threatened to be deported. So many stories like that, it just created chaos and pain throughout the lives of millions of people.Sy Hoekstra: I'm glad that you brought up that one executive order deprioritizing things, because that's not something that made the headlines. And I know because my wife who listeners to the show would be familiar with, was an immigration attorney at the time, and she was dealing with all these tiny little things that did not make the headlines or whatever, that the Trump administration would just adjust, that would just make things that much harsher and that much more cruel on immigrants. And the result was like the human cost that you were just explaining. And then on the service providers on top of that, it was like if you have to drop everything you're doing and spend a bunch of time making new arguments or appealing cases, or in some cases dropping everything to bring a big class action lawsuit to try and stop some rule change or whatever, that is a decrease in your capacity, that then means you can't work with more people.Like my wife spent a lot of time where she was just taking no new cases on, she was just appealing all the cases that had been denied because of ridiculous rule changes that eventually got overturned. But in the meantime, a whole bunch of clients that would've been eligible for green cards lost the opportunity or whatever. And so I very much appreciate you bringing that perspective.Robert Romero: I remember another example. I remember at the time, the Diocese of San Antonio, Texas, that's one of the largest Catholic diocese in the whole country. They were trying to sponsor a special religious worker and [laughs] their application got denied because ICE wanted proof that they were a legitimate 501 C3 corporation [laughs] the Diocese of San Antonio.Sy Hoekstra: The Catholic church?Robert Romero: The Catholic church, yeah [laughs]. And it's like those kinds of shenanigans.Sy Hoekstra: Oh my gosh.MAGA's treatment of Immigrants Reveals a Lack of Spiritual DiscernmentJonathan Walton: Wow. Oh man. I'm gonna attempt to ask this question without going down too many rabbit trails because that just sounds ridiculous [laughs]. But in your essay, you said, “Jesus warns us soberly in Matthew 25, that our response to immigrants and the poor is a barometer of the sincerity of our relationship with God,” end quote. To you, what does all that stuff we just talked about reveal spiritually about the MAGA movement?Robert Romero: So that interpretation of Matthew 25, that our response to the poor and immigrants reflects our heart with God, that's an ancient tradition. Ancient Christian interpretation, thousands of years. And I think that what that reveals about the MAGA movement, it shows how much the culture of US nationalism that's embedded within MAGA has become so conflated with Christianity in the US that people have lost discernment. They've lost discernment. In other words, this is one of my reflections over the last couple of months. When you really get down to it, these issues that we're talking about, it's a discernment process, spiritual discernment process between what is culture, what is the gospel, what happens when the gospel becomes invited into a culture, and how do you distinguish between the gospel and culture?And now here's the tricky part [laughs]. The gospel has only expressed itself and always only expresses itself through culture. First the gospel came through the Jewish people, enculturated in that context, then became enculturated in the Greco-Roman Hellenistic context among Turkish people, among North Africans [laughs] among Persian people, among all these people. Then it became enculturated later on in more Western Europe, and then in about a thousand AD, like the Vikings, and Christianity becomes enculturated. And that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's just the reality. And theologians talk about a process though of discernment with regards to enculturation. What is a biblical contextualization of the gospel in a local culture and what's not.And what they say is that the way that you discern, is that in the context of the life of worship, we are to reflect upon scripture, upon the 2000-year-old tradition of the church. And to add Latino theology, en conjunto, or in community, with the local church, with the global church, with the church that's there with Jesus right now, even. And there has to be a continuity, a harmony between new scriptural interpretations and our ancestors that have gone before us. And so if you just run that test [laughs], that criteria, the MAGA movement through that doesn't make any sense. And we can talk more about that, but that's what I've been… thank you for giving me the chance to just throw that out on you, because that's what I've been thinking about. I've been dying to share it and to process it with people.Sy Hoekstra: The immediate response from people in the MAGA movement is, well, from Christians in the MAGA movement at least, would be, we're the orthodox ones and the people who oppose us are the ones with the new interpretations of scripture that are going off the rails and trying to destroy American culture and et cetera, et cetera.Robert Romero: Sure.Sy Hoekstra: So why are you coming to such a radically different conclusion?Robert Romero: So first of all, orthodoxy means right praise, correct praise. That's what it means. So, as we said, this criteria, the context of the life of worship. So as people are worshiping Jesus, we're bearing one another's burdens, we're taking communion, we're praying to God. That's the context first of all that this discernment takes place. And you look at scripture, 2000 verses of scripture that talk about God's heart for the poor, and the marginalized and immigrants, Matthew 25, among about a hundred other verses. So first of all, MAGA would've to contend with that. Tradition, the tradition of the church for 2000 years from the earliest church records where they said it in the Greco-Roman world. “These Christians are so strange. They worship this…” I'll just paraphrase, “They worship this Jesus, but they belong to every culture.You cannot distinguish them by their dress or their language or their clothing, but by the way, they love one another, and they care for those that are poor and marginalized.” And there is a historical record of 2000 years of the church. And what MAGA is doing, it is not in continuity with that 2000 years of church tradition en conjunto, in community, because as Americans, we're so individualistic. People think, I'm gonna go into my prayer chamber, I'm gonna pray for two days and whatever I come out thinking about immigrants, God spoke to me. Doesn't work that way. It's like in community, all these things, the context of the life of worship, scripture, tradition of 2000 years in community with the local church, the global church, and also what theologians talk about is like another principle of continuity again.Whatever MAGA is saying has to… MAGA Christians, at least, there has to be continuity with 2000 years. And if you look at the history, I challenge anybody, there's no continuity there. Anti-immigrant sentiment, there's no continuity. And so that's what I would say first and just to kind of throw out a big concept there, the major concept that we're talking about, it's called inculturation. Inculturation. And how does the gospel enter a culture and transform it? How does a gospel enter a culture and heal it? But sometimes what happens is that a culture can become so culturally Christian that people confuse just the culture with the gospel. And if you run through this criteria, this ancient criteria of discernment, you'll find that's why prophets arise. And that's what's happened with MAGA.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. That's a helpful distinction, I think. Because you could also say, well, there's another tradition starting with the eastern half, the Roman Empire becoming Christian and creating Christian empires for a couple thousand years, right? But I think you're saying that just the phrase, “that's why prophets arise” [laughs], I think is the helpful distinction for me. Yeah.Jonathan Walton: You write about this a little bit in Brown Church, your other great book. There's this unhealthy syncretism, this marriage that has happened. And when you said the word “Orthodoxy” I immediately thought of a conversation I had with a wonderful person on Instagram. I am being facetious. But she said Israel is a nation ordained by God to exist in all these different things around 1948. And then and she said that's the orthodox view, is what she said. What would be your response to someone who divorces their belief in Jesus from the scriptural basis of Jesus and the tradition of, that missión integral, the conjunto that you're talking about, when they make that divorce, what do you do besides go to your prayer closet and pray for them [laughter]?Robert Romero: Yeah. I think that you go to the roots. If those of us who call ourselves Christians, we follow Jesus, and Jesus lived in history in a very specific moment in time, and he had 12 disciples and apostles, and he shared a message with them that he was the Messiah expected by the Jewish community. And that through this Messiah, the whole world would be transformed and saved and redeemed, there's a core message that was passed on from Jesus to the 12, to the leaders, the bishops that they appointed, to established churches. And there was, for the first 300 years of the church, lots of writings, lots [laughs] that established orthodoxy.So there was a core orthodoxy that Jesus established to use that term. I mean, it's anachronistic. Core message. That core Christian message was passed on to the 12. The 12 passed it on a majority consensus as to what that core was, to leaders that they appointed in Egypt, in Turkey [laughs], in Persia, in North Africa. And they had people that they appointed, and there were writings that developed. So, in other words, what I'm saying is you can trace what this major consensus of orthodoxy was pretty clearly through the historical record. And this is what I'm saying about history [laughs]. If you put MAGA through that, it's not in harmony with it.I'll say this though, if you use this criteria, this healthy criteria that have been established by theologians over the millennia, Christianity is not the same as the left either. I wanna make that clear as possible [laughs]. There are lots of Christians who make the same mistake and conflate Christianity with the cultural left, and it's not the same either. So there's room for abundant nuance and complication, but at the same time, there is a complicated, thoughtful process. And one of the things that disturbs me so much is that for the last five or 10 years, with all of the social disruptions in every arena of society, you have this positive desire to try to figure it out. Like what's right, what's wrong? And you have some people who are just holding on to this cultural Christianity, this cultural nationalism as indistinguishable from Christianity.You have some folks who are at the same time going the other extreme and throwing away 2000 years of very imperfect, but still the Christian movement. And things are just so disruptive, this process, I would hope this criteria again, and this is a work in progress for me, of we discern the difference between Christ and culture. We discern what aspects of culture are positive reflections of the gospel or not, or what's represents cultural impurity and what represents the unique reflection of the image of God through culture. We discern that. And I wanna share a quote that I think expresses the mess of the last 500 years. This is from an article by a Filipino theologian, José De Mesa. He's one of my favorite theologians.He is citing missionaries who were going to go to China in 1659. The quote again from 1659, “Can anyone think of anything more absurd than to transport France, Italy, or Spain or some other European country to China? Bring them your faith, not your country.”Jonathan Walton: There you go.Robert Romero: That's it [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Bring them your faith, not your country.Robert Romero: Bring them your faith, not your MAGA movement.Reacting to People Who Think Voting Won't Make a Difference for ImmigrantsSy Hoekstra: I wanna transition a little bit because everything we've talked about so far is a little bit aimed at the MAGA movement, or at White Christians in America. But again, talking about my wife, her family is from Haiti, and during the 2020 election, she made some calls for the Biden campaign down to Miami and to, there's a lot of Haitian voters there, it's a swing state, they needed people calling. So she called potential Haitian American voters and was talking to them about the election. And she had some fascinating conversations [laughs]. But she had a couple people in particular who I think represent a certain segment of immigrants or the one or two generations after immigrants to the US who are not White.And they basically said, what on earth is the point of voting for Biden versus Trump? You were talking before about the Obama administration, and they were just like, Trump, Obama, Bush, we get treated the same. We get deported, we get forgotten, we get left behind. We get approached every four years to put somebody in power who then doesn't really do anything for us. What do you say to that kind of hopelessness?Robert Romero: Yeah. First of all, I totally get it and understand it, because it feels that way so much, so often. So I would first approach it on that level of like, okay, let's process. What are we feeling here? I get it. And then I would say, well, I guess I have a response just as a human being, and then a response as a Christian. So those are kind of related, but different things. I mean, just as a human being, as a US citizen, there was a substantial difference in the treatment of immigrants under the Trump administration. It was just like, it made people suffer. Millions of more people suffered in very specific ways when the policies changed under Trump. Again, under Obama, again, I don't think that he is perfect either, and he caused a lot of harm, but things were way worse. They got way worse.We didn't think they could be, but they got in very practical, specific ways under Trump. So depending upon who we vote for with respect to this topic of immigration, it makes a difference. It makes a huge difference. And that's because every president has the constitutional authority to set immigration policy on their own. They can't pass immigration laws, that's Congress's job, but they can pass hundreds of policies carte blanche, which is what Trump did, at their own discretion and mess people's lives up. That's what I would say. Like just as a human being, and in terms of Trump's potential to come back into office. Just as a human being, oh my gosh, I want our democracy to just survive.And he's signaled so many times that he's willing to just overturn the rule of law, and we can talk about that too. So that's just as a human being. Now, as a Christian [laughs], it's like, I know that there's no perfect candidate, and Jesus is not a Republican or a Democrat. And I know people go off the rails on both sides. At the same time, Christians, I think in good faith, can hold some different political perspectives. If we do that, run through that discernment process that I mentioned, we can come to good faith differences of opinion. We really can. That's just a hundred percent true.Jonathan Walton: I like how you said good faith differences.Robert Romero: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: That feels very [laughs] very important.Robert Romero: [laughs] Yes.Jonathan Walton: [laughs] Because I'm thinking to myself, I'm like, I would love to see an experience like good faith differences, where the other person isn't just dehumanized to the point of like, it's okay to do violence. That the reality that the first step towards violence against someone is dehumanization.Robert Romero: Yeah.The Diversity of Latine Voting and Politics in the USJonathan Walton: And so can we have good faith disagreement. And going along with that, I listen to a lot of podcasts, read a lot of news, sometimes healthily, sometimes to just cope, I think the information [laughs]. But a lot of media outlets like The Run-Up on the New York Times, or Politico, or NPR, they make a big deal out of polling, saying Latine voters, particularly men, are somewhat more pro-Trump than they have been in recent years. And like, what are your thoughts on that talking point? And the diversity of Latin experiences and political thought in America?The Effect of Latin America's Racist History, and its Leftist DictatorshipsRobert Romero: Yeah. I mean, I don't doubt that those stats are somewhat true. I mean, I don't know. I haven't studied them. But I think that within, again we talk about this inculturation process, and how the gospel gets interwoven with bad aspects of culture, sinful even. And, but how the gospel also at the same time, when it engages a culture, it transforms the culture and heals the culture too. And our diverse Latin American Latino peoples, we've got both [laughs]. We have the sin [laughs] and our own colonial history of 500 years that is just as racist as the US history. Just as racist. And so I think that when it comes to more people supporting Trump, and I want to distinguish the support of Trump from a pre-Trump Republican party.Again, not that it was perfect or anything, but I wanna make that distinction [laughs], because there are some Latinos who just feel more aligned with again, the Republican party 15 years ago or something, for some reasons that are not entirely bad. Now, the folks that support Trump and Trump's racism, again, we're super, the Latino people are so diverse in every way imaginable. Politically, socially, economically, racially, ethnically, culturally, religiously. So I wanna make that disclaimer. But at the same time, we have our own 500 years of racism and colonial racist values that are within us. And so if a Latino male voter says, I like Trump because he's just, because I wanted to kick out all the immigrants or something like that, [laughs] then that's where that comes from.And it also comes from holding racist values in Latin America, bringing it here and wanting to fit into the racial system here. I'll say one last example. So in Latin America, for 500 years to this present day, there's a legacy of everybody wants to be called Spanish, quote- unquote.Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Robert Romero: Because you had a racial hierarchy and caste system officially for about… let's see, 1492 to 1820 officially, this caste system. And just like in the US, you had a certain legal caste system, these terms of White, which was a legal category, Black, Indian and so forth. In Latin America you had the same thing, but the different terms. They were like Spanish and Black and Indian and Mestizo and Mulatto. And at one point they had dozens of terms. But that created the society in which people who were social climbers wanted to be considered Spanish. And to this day, some people will say that I'm Spanish. And doesn't mean… it's fine if someone's like, if someone immigrated from Spain to Mexico that's great. But we're not talking about that. We're talking about like, no one in their family has been to Spain like in 400 years.So Spanish is sort of, saying I'm Spanish is like a MAGA person saying, “Well, I'm White,” or something. It's like this, it can be. Not always so extreme, but now imagine someone that comes from that context in say Mexico, I can speak for my own context. They come to the US, they find a different racial hierarchy, and they wanna fit in with power. So you become Ted Cruz.Jonathan Walton: [laughs]. This is true.Robert Romero: You become Marco Rubio. Where you're willing to sort of just like… Actually, this is the term, this is another use of the term enculturation. You enculturate yourself fully to the dominant White racist narrative so that you can gain acceptance. And that's what happens. And so I think that some of those Latino Trump voters, again, if they're doing it, I mean, there's other reasons too. But if they're doing it because as an explicit endorsement of anti-immigrant policies, then I would say this is a lot of what's going on. Now, to be fair, some Latinos, and not without reason, are kind of scared off by, like they come from socialist countries that have really in a lot of pain and hurt. And they hear someone on the extreme left of the Democratic party reminding them too much of what it was like in Nicaragua [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: Or Cuba or whatever.Robert Romero: Or Cuba. Yeah, I mean, I remember I was talking to a Cuban taxi driver who had just come to the US five years ago, and he said, “I'd rather someone shoot me than send me back to Cuba.” That's what he said. So it's like, I think there's that going on too. Again, not that that's a hundred percent right or whatever, but it's understandable and I get it too.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah, right.Robert Romero: So yeah. Some people just vote Republican no matter what, because of those reasons, and those are not just for no reason.Jonathan Walton: Right. Right, right. There's a history and a context there too that all, all that makes sense. All that makes sense.Outro and OuttakeSy Hoekstra: Thank you so much for that question and all the other insight you've given us. If people want to follow you online or see some of your work, where would you point them?Robert Romero: Sure. So my full name is Robert Chao Romero, C-H-A-O. And if you use that name, you can find me in all the usual places.Jonathan Walton: There aren't a lot of Chao Romeros out there, you sure? [laughs].Robert Romero: Yeah [laughs]. There was one. One person wrote me actually [laughs], but other than him, I think I'm the only one. [laughter].Sy Hoekstra: A guy wrote you just to say we have the same name, I can't believe it [laughter]?Robert Romero: Yeah He was in Brazil or something and he is like, “Is this a coincidence?” But anyways, it's neither here nor there, but, so if you look up my name, you can find me in the usual places, social media.Sy Hoekstra: Great.Jonathan Walton: Nice. Nice.Sy Hoekstra: They'll find all your books [laughs]. And we've put some of them in our newsletter and some of the other stuff, and we highly recommend all of it.Robert Romero: Thank you.Sy Hoekstra: So thank you so much for being with us on the show today. We really appreciate it.Jonathan Walton: Yeah, thank you so much.Robert Romero: It's my pleasure.[the intro piano music from “Citizens” by Jon Guerra plays briefly and then fades out.]Sy Hoekstra: Thank you all so much for listening. Please remember to support what we do and keep this work going beyond this election season. Go to KTFPress.com and become a paid subscriber. Get all the bonus episodes of this show, access to those monthly subscriber chats we were talking about earlier and a lot more. You can also get the anthology and read Professor Romero's essay and everybody else's essays at keepingthefaithbook.com. Alright. Our theme song as always is “Citizens” by Jon Guerra. Our podcast Art is by Robyn Burgess, transcripts by Joyce Ambale, editing by Multitude Productions. We thank you all so much for being here, and we will see you in two weeks.[The song “Citizens” by Jon Guerra fades in. Lyrics: “I need to know there is justice/ That it will roll in abundance/ And that you're building a city/ Where we arrive as immigrants/ And you call us citizens/ And you welcome us as children home.” The song fades out.]Jonathan Walton: Welcome to Shake the Dust, sheaking Jesus... What? Sheaking?Sy Hoekstra: Sheaking Jeshush.Jonathan Walton: I don't even know what that means. Okay, [Sy laughs]. This is a public episode. 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The Outdoor Biz Podcast
The Andes, Amazon, and Galapagos: Purposeful Travel Experiences with Jorge Perez [EP 454]

The Outdoor Biz Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2024 53:09


In this episode, we have the pleasure of hosting Jorge Perez, a conservationist and tourism entrepreneur from Quito, Ecuador. Join us as Jorge shares his insights on the unique mestizo culture and the influence of Spaniards, the alluring experience of cattle drives, and the concept of time in Andean cosmovision. Listen in as he discusses purposeful travel, disconnecting from technology, and the importance of understanding our relationship with the Earth. Jorge also unveils a fascinating program for deepening family connections through adventure and offers valuable tips on packing for diverse climates and environments in Ecuador. Stay tuned for an inspiring conversation on conservation, tourism with a purpose, and creating memorable experiences in the great outdoors. Facebook​ ​Twitter​ ​Instagram​ Love the show? Subscribe, ​rate, review, and share!​ Sign up for my Newsletter ​HERE​ I'd love to hear your feedback about the show! You can contact me here: ​rick@theoutdoorbizpodcast.com Brought to you this week by Tee Public Show Notes 00:00 Ecuador's beauty, diversity, and unique geography. 05:17 Tourism focused on conservation and local opportunities. 07:33 Building trails, strong relationship with national park. 11:17 Challenges promoting a unique place Ecuador 13:31 Disconnect from home, reconnect with new experiences. 18:47 Tech detox brings freedom, family interaction, learning. 21:38 Preserving Ecuadorian cowboy culture and environmental conservation. 22:57 Mestizo culture, status, and handling fighting bulls. 27:36 Moments are fleeting, but love endures. 30:54 Creating activities to recover the beauty of travel. 36:04 Contact us for experiential family adventure programs. 39:43 Importance of context in facing planetary challenges. 41:04 Promotes conservation through sustainable tourism initiatives. 45:55 Proper gear is key to weather conditions and activities. 48:29 Responsible tourism benefits locals, cultures, and conservation. 41:44 One of Jorge's favorite books: Factfulness 48:18 One of Jorge's pieces of outdoor gear: Swiss Army Knife  Learn More Tierra Del Volcan Web Page Contact us Instagram LinkedIn Facebook Next Steps If you enjoy interviews devoted to the outdoor industry, find us online at ricksaez.com/listen. We love likes and comments, and if you know someone who is also an outdoor enthusiast, go ahead and share our site with them, too. And be sure to Subscribe to our newsletter Keywords #Ecuador, #mestizo culture, #Spanish influence, #horses, #cattle drives, #Andean community, #purposeful travel, #Amazon, #Galapagos, #Andes, #environmental preservation, #horse encounters, #personal growth, #"Factfulness" book, #conservation, #sustainability, #tourism with purpose, #Quito, #Cotopaxi National Park Podcast produced using Descript, CastMagic Podcast hosted by Libsyn: sign up with code 'outdoorbizpod' for 20% OFF Show Notes powered by Castmagic Website powered by Wordpress Get Your Podcast Published NOW!  I'm partnering with Tracy DeForge, Stephanie Euler, and the Produce Your Podcast team to get it out of your head and into your followers' ears. Tracy and her team have helped me grow and monetize my show, and podcasters trust them because they deliver. Go to https://produceyourpodcast.com/rsaez to get all the details. Let's get your show created, produced, and on the air today. Go to https://ricksaez.com/pyp and get all the details. Let me know if you have any questions. Note: As an Affiliate of Amazon and others, I earn from qualifying purchases.

SGV Master Key Podcast
Carlos Aguilar: Part 2 - SGV philosophy & freeways

SGV Master Key Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2024 61:33


Carlos "Big Brown Dad" Aguilar hails from La Puente, CA, where he has carved out a remarkable career as a multifaceted multimedia producer, writer, and content strategist with over two decades of experience crafting compelling narratives for broadcast and digital audiences.His journey is marked by a diverse portfolio: from directing and producing gripping documentaries on subjects ranging from American Idol to NASCAR and Oprah Winfrey, to shaping narratives as a Senior Story Producer for Bristol Palin's Lifetime reality series and contributing to the Daytime Emmys. Carlos has also spearheaded the development and launch of content platforms for iconic figures like Mariah Carey, Magic Johnson, Honda, Becky G, and Steve Harvey.Beyond his work with celebrities and brands, Carlos Aguilar has left an indelible mark in publishing. His insightful writing on music, religion, education, and youth culture has graced the pages of Christianity Today, Sojourners, Prism, Flama, and the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. As the driving force behind BigBrownDad.com, a prominent Latino fatherhood blog, he eloquently explores the joys and trials of modern parenting.Carlos is not just a storyteller but also a creative force in music, performing as the acclaimed hip hop artist known as Bookworm Brown across continents, including the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, China, and Japan. His entrepreneurial spirit shines through in his latest venture, Mestizo, a specialty coffee brand blending comedy and hip hop into its unique offerings.Carlos "Big Brown Dad" Aguilar's career embodies a fusion of creativity, cultural resonance, and entrepreneurial vision, making him a dynamic presence in media, entertainment, and cultural discourse. His journey continues to inspire through his relentless pursuit of innovative storytelling and community engagement.Website: bigbrowndad.com___________________Music CreditsIntroLike it Loud, Dyalla, YouTube Audio LibraryStingerScarlet Fire (Sting), Otis McDonald, YouTube Audio LibraryOutroIndecision, Dyalla, YouTube Audio Library__________________My SGV Podcast:Website: www.mysgv.netNewsletter: Beyond the MicPatreon: MySGV Podcastinfo@sgvmasterkey.com

Radio Duna | Santiago Adicto
Los detalles del taller América como proyecto mestizo

Radio Duna | Santiago Adicto

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2024


Rodrigo Guendelman conversó con el escritor nacional, Miguel Laborde y el arquitecto, Gonzalo Schmeisser, sobre los detalles de su taller América como proyecto mestizo.

The Classical Ideas Podcast
EP 302: Mestizo Poetics of Belonging: Deuteronomy's Construction of Israelite Ethnicity w/Dr. Chauncey Handy

The Classical Ideas Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2024 43:44


Chauncey Handy is Assistant Professor of Religion at Reed College. As a Chicano scholar of the Hebrew Bible, Chauncey's work focuses on the intersection of race/racialization, theories of ethnicity, Latinx theorization of identity, and the reception history of the Hebrew Bible (for example his Bible, Race, and Empire course at Reed). He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary and is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion at Reed College. He is working on turning his dissertation, Mestizo Poetics of Belonging: Deuteronomy's Construction of Israelite Ethnicity, into a published book. In this project, he considers the nature of ethnicity as presented in the text of Deuteronomy through the lens of Gloria Anzaldúa's articulation of mestizaje (racial-ethnic intermixture). His argument emphasizes the value of socially located approaches to Hebrew Bible and seeks to theorize engagement with religious categories of belonging that advocate for a just society. Visit Sacred Writes: https://www.sacred-writes.org/luce-cohort-fall-2023

NuDirections
MESTIZO SOUNDS PRESENTS AFRODISIS

NuDirections

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2024 72:47


 I've selected a mix of Afro music from various genres for my new musical podcast, which I've named Afrodisis. Isis was the Goddess of Magic, so the enchanting rhythms of Afro music create an uncontrollable formula for getting you to dance and have a great time. Enjoy! website - www.jazzmattersuk.com PLAYLIST: 1- She was the one - FANIA ALL STARS 2- Paul's happy - MONTANA (PHILLY SOUND WORKS) 3- Y que tu quieres que te den - ADALBERTO ALVAREZ Y SU SON 4- Roots suite (Ajomora/ Going back to my roots) - ODYSSEY (sample drums from Paul's happy-MONTANA) 5- Kalimbo - AFRICANISM ALL STARS 6-Moments in Soul - JT & BIG FAMILY 7- Sou Negrao - RAPPING HOOD 8- Atrvesar - JAZZ JUICE 9- Africa - THE LIGHT OF SABA 10- (Somebody got) Soul Soul Soul - THE WILD MAGNOLIAS 11- Guitarra - (bonus faixas from the album BRAZILIAN BREAK & BEATS) 12- Death of the revolution - QUANTIC presenta FLOWERING INFERNO 13- Chatty chatty Mouth - SUGAR MINOTT

NuDirections
Mestizo Sounds presents Los Sonidos de Colombia.

NuDirections

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2024 116:48


 The Sounds of Colombia is a selection of music made in Colombia. My focus is on the Afro Sounds and Tropical rhythms. Cumbia is a native style created in Colombia that has had a broad impact in Latin American countries and also in Europe with musicians such as Will Holland (Quantic), Richard Blair "Sidestepper", Manu Chao, Joan Garriga (Dusminguet and Trova Kungfu bands) or Sargent Garcia. We will listen to some of the legends of Colombian music like Toto La Momposina, Fruko y sus Tesos, Joe Arroyo or Andres Landero. The show also includes the current wave of great musicians. Among these are Los Aterciopelados, Bomba Estereo, Ondatropica, La Chiva Gantiva, ChicQuibTown, Mojarra Eléctrica or Pernett & The Caribbean Ravers. Colombia has never stopped producing new genres of syncopated styles and many excellent bands and musicians. Info website - www.jazzmattersuk.com Music Player - https://pod.co/nudirections PLAYLIST: 1- La Preñá - OSUNLADE (Yoruba Soul Mix) 2- Pacífico - AFROSOUND 3- Abran Paso - ELKIN & NELSON 4- The Caribbean Raver - PERNETT & THE CARIBBEAN RAVERS 5- La Primavera - MICHI SARMIENTO Y SUS BRAVOS 6- Lambada de Oceanica, África y América - LOS PIRAÑAS 7- Cumbia en do menor - LITO BARRIENTOS Y SU ORQUESTA 8- Esclavo moderno - MANUEL ÁLVAREZ Y SUS DANGERS 9- Milé (hombre borracho) - TOTO LA MOMPOSINA 10- Pal' Bailador - JOE ARROYO 11- Mambo loco - ANIBAL VELASQUEZ Y SU CONJUNTO 12- Logos - SIDESTEPPER 13- Las Mellas - Andres Landero 14- La jungla - FLACO FLOW & MELANINA 15- Somos Pacificos - CHOCQUIBTOWN 16- Calle 19 - MOJARRA ELÉCTRICA 17- La Zenaida - ARMANDO HERNÁNDEZ Y SU CONJUNTO 18- Salsa No Ma - FRUKO Y SUS TESOS 19- Las caleñas son como las flores - LATIN BROTHERS 20- Bolero falaz - LOS ATERCIOPELADOS 21- Atole (remix) - BOMBA ESTEREO 22- Suena - ONDATROPICA 23- Para arriba - LA CHIVA GANTIVA 24- El malemute - LA MAMBANEGRA 25- Real - LA ETNNIA 26- Lluvia con Nieve - ASILO 38 27- La pluma - BLOQUE DE BUSQUEDA 28- Tongala (el sapo) - SON PALENQUE 29- El abanico - WGANDA KENYA

The Steebee Weebee Show
335: Mestizo (part 3)on The Steebee Weebee Show

The Steebee Weebee Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2024 60:58


Mestizo joins The Steebee Weebee Show for the 3rd time!!! We talk about: his new traditional Filipino Tribal Tattoo, raising his 3 beautiful healthy boys, being able to be "vulnerable" when putting out your art, Maria Oggay: one of the oldest tattoo artists from the village of Buscalan, his collaborations with Slug from Atmosphere and Doseone, ANTICON: the avante-garde hip hop independent record label based in Los Angeles, his past music/crew collective: Machina Muerte, strength in numbers, and much much more. Go this week to: www.youtube.com/steebeeweebee to watch. More: Mestizo https://www.instagram.com/iammestizo ** Now on iTunes:  https://goo.gl/CdSwyV ** Subscribe: https://goo.gl/d239PO Little Ray promises a Karma Boost if you join our Patreon: https://goo.gl/aiOi7J Or, click here for a one time Karma Boost. https://www.paypal.me/steebeeweebeeshow/2 More Steven: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quangou Bandcamp: https://steebeeweebee.bandcamp.com/ Itunes: https://goo.gl/PSooa0 Send stuff to: 1425 N. Cherokee Ave P.O. Box 1391 Los Angeles, CA 90093 

LMP DJ Mixes
LMP Mixes 0508 : De Todo Un Poco (Reggaeton, Dembow, Bachata, Salsa Merengue) Mix

LMP DJ Mixes

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2024


Mix Name: DJ Argeniss – De Todo Un Poco Mix Ep3 Website: https://www.iamlmp.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamlmp/ DJ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/djargeniss/ Download our DJ Music App Daily Mixes: https://linktr.ee/iamlmp ——— 1. Romeo Santos – Amigo 2. Elvis Martinez – Maestra 3. Alex Bueno – Con el Alma Desnuda 4. Raulin Rodriguez – Si Supieras 5. Anthony Santos – Matame 6. Yiyo Sarante – Que Agonia 7. Chiquito TeamBand – Si Quieres 8. Yiyo Sarante – Un Hombre Normal 9. Jey One – Onana 10. Mami Jordan – Juslay 11. Mestizo is Back – Prendela a Valor 12. El Alfa – Moli 13. KD One – Hay Que Bueno 14. Chimbala – Feliz 15. CrazyDesing – Guan 16. Chimabala – Se Me Nota 17. Don Miguelo – EL Mario de tu mujer 18. Don Miguelo – Y Que Fue 19. Secreto – Amaneci Contento 20. El Mayor – Gagayor 21. Bad Bunny ft Eladio Carrion – Coco Chanel 22. Bad Bunny – Where She Goes 23. Sebastian Tobon – Guaracha Aleteo 24. Knife Party – LRAD 25. Tremendo – La Playa Remix 26. Bad Bunny ft Chencho – Me Porto Bonito 27. Myke Towers – LALA 28. Bad Bunny Ft Feid – Perro Negro 29. Bad Bunny – Gato De Noche 30. Bad Bunny – Preview 31. Anuel aa – MAs Rica Que Ayer 32. Bad Bunny – 25/8 33. Bad Bunny – Monaco 33. Eladio Carrion – Mbappe 34. Anuel aa – El Nene 35. Amenazy – Munchies 36. Bad Bunny – Titi 37. Rochy Rd – Uva Bombon 38. El Alfa – Gogo Dance 39. Anuel ft 3730 – Del Kilo 40. Bulin 47 – Vivo Por Palomo 41. Onguito Wa – Tan Quedao 42. Angel Dior – Zuculento 43. Donaty – Prepotente 44. Jey One – Si Tu Supieras 45. Papa Tyga – La Tumba 46. Donaty – Boy Boy 47. Polo Joa x Donaty – Empaquetate 48. Aventura – No Lo Perdona Dios 49. Aventura – Cuando Volveras 50. Aventura – Angelito 51. Aventura – La Novelita #latinmix #iamlmp #reggaeton

Los Hijos de Tuta
Entrevista Mestizo Is Back

Los Hijos de Tuta

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2024 25:26


University of Adversity
Ayahuasca Unveiled: Embracing Adversity and Ancient Wisdom with Neils Poole - A Transformative Journey of Healing and Spiritual Discovery

University of Adversity

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2024 84:56


Neils' spiritual practice is primarily informed by the decade he spent living in Peru. During this time, he worked extensively with indigenous shamanic traditions of the Shipibo, Mestizo, and Quechua cultures. He has created, directed, and facilitated many Ayahuasca retreats throughout Latin America and guided thousands of clients through their personal plant medicine journeys. Episode Overview:In this insightful conversation, Neils shares his unique experiences from a decade in Peru, working closely with the Shipibo, Mestizo, and Quechua cultures. He reveals the profound impact of Amazonian plant medicine and indigenous healing practices on personal growth and healing mental illnesses. Listen as Neils discusses the intricate relationship between spirituality, plant medicine, and embracing adversity for a more authentic life. We also tackle the crucial topics of plant medicine safety, authenticity, and the potential healing power of Ayahuasca on trauma and the mind.
Time Stamps:- (00:01:00) – Introduction- (00:05:51) – Amazonian Plant Medicine and Its Cultural Significance.- (00:11:58) – Amazonian Healing Practices and Plant Medicine- (00:17:58) – Indigenous Healing Practices and Plant Medicine- (00:27:10) – Spirituality, Plant Medicine, and Personal Growth - (00:33:48) – Plant Medicine Safety and Authenticity- (00:40:35) – Ayahuasca Safety and Potential for Healing Mental Illnesses- (00:46:16) – Ayahuasca and Its Effects on Trauma and the Mind- (00:53:59) – Plant Medicine Ceremonies and Personal Growth- (01:01:05) – Embracing Adversity for Personal Growth- (01:05:51) – Embracing Adversity and Living a More Authentic Life- (01:11:28) – Plant Medicine and Healing Retreats in Peru and Costa Rica- (01:16:57) – End of EpisodeTodays Sponsor-

Hora América
Hora América - Felipe Alarcón presenta la exposición 'Picasso Mestizo' - 20/12/23

Hora América

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2023 30:05


Conversamos con el artista cubano Felipe Alarcón Echenique que presenta su exposición Picasso Mestizo, que se puede ver hasta el 5 de enero en el Palacio de los Barrantes-Cervantes, en la ciudad española de Trujillo, en el marco de la celebración este 2023 del 50 aniversario de la muerte de Pablo Ruiz Picasso. Una muestra donde destaca la influencia del artista malagueño en América Latina después de que incorporara a sus obras la influencia africana. La actualidad nos lleva también hasta Argentina, Ecuador, México, Estados Unidos y Perú; y conocemos cómo hacer tacos del gobernador con langostinos rancheros y guacamole caseros gracias a los talleres gastronómicos de CasaEscuchar audio

The DOD45 Show
Mestizo interview on The DOD45 Show With ArtByTai - Series 6 Episode 74

The DOD45 Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2023 84:09


As Scroobius Pip would say, "welcome, welcome, welcome"… On this episode 74 of The DOD45 Show we welcome our guest Mestizo. He's an underground rapper of the Machina Muerte family and the other half of one of my current favorites, A7PHA….a group that I'm willing to call a Super-Duo, of which Mestizo shares emcee duties with the legendary Doseone. We have a nice chill conversation with 'Stizo, talking' bout A7PHA's recent release, entitled Many Headed, (a brilliant EP). We also briefly chat about his coming from a long lineage of gangsters, including a gangsta grandma and he tells us a chilling experience he personally had with the spirit world. We also learn that Mestizo has a huge collection of quote, unquote “old-man” clothes and he tells the tale of a time he was on tour with Mopes and he told a Texas patrolman that they were a christian rap group that did rap for Christ to avoid getting a ticket. We have the utmost respect for anyone who has aligned themselves with our show, ostensibly leading into discussions of the deftness of Doseone and how lucky we all are, as listeners, to have the return of A7PHA. We also get to learn a lot more about Mestizo through The DOD45 Dish segment, with answers to Mestizo's Firsts, Worsts and Favorites. All of that,plus a handful of Sophie's choice questions siting names like The B-52s, B-Real, Michael Rapaport as Remy, Minnie Driver, Faith Hill, Corpse Bride, Ray Charles, Jeremy Piven, Jeremy Renner and a handful of others. We hit it off real quick with Mestizo, which makes this one of them nice, concise, chill kind of chats. So throw the laundry in the bin, brush off the layers of base, holster your switchblades, line up your lazy eyes and zone in on this episode 74 of The DOD45 Show with Mestizo. Peace ArtByTai.com DOD45.com StrangeFamousRecords.com #ArtByTai #Mestizo #Doseone #HandsmadeXYZ #StrangeFamousRecords #SFR #dod45  @ArtByTai   @handsmadexyz  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artbytai/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artbytai/support

Chasing Justice
Worship and Activism as an Achiever with Emanuel Padilla

Chasing Justice

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2023 29:43


From Reggaeton to helping the Mestizo church create cultural change. As an achiever, Emanuel Padilla shares how community has been a part of his social justice journey from the stage to churches, cities, and the academy.    Emanuel is pursuing doctoral studies in theology and ethics working to recapture the history of colonization, reshape conceptions of identity, and inform the pursuit of justice. Emanuel's desire is to serve the Church through non-traditional educational ministries. He does this as founder and president of World Outspoken and co-host of The Mestizo Podcast.   World Outspoken | @worldoutspoken Courses available at WOS @emanuelwos Renewing the City by Robert D. Lupton Travy Joe Elizabeth Conde Frazier In the Name of Jesus by Henri Nouwen    We have an active Patreon community where you can access the full video interview and more resources. Support Chasing Justice || Patreon: patreon.com/ChasingJustice  ||  PayPal: paypal.me/ChasingJustice || Donate: chasingjustice.com/donate  

Ana Francisca Vega
¿México es un país mestizo?

Ana Francisca Vega

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2023 6:08


En entrevista para MVS Noticias con Ana Francisca Vega, Álvaro Morales, periodista, habló sobre qué significa ser mexicano y el mestizaje en el país. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Podcast 9 3/4
S06E01 - Volvimos y estamos de cumpleaños

Podcast 9 3/4

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2023 40:16


¡También arrancamos El Misterio del Príncipe! (O como sería en realidad: El Príncipe Mestizo). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast934/message

La Tribu FM
Edgar Alvardo y Fredy Mestizo (Congreso PBS El Salvador)

La Tribu FM

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2023 16:50


Hoy conversamos con Edgar Alvardo, Dell Technologies y Fredy Mestizo, PBS El Salvador, en el Congreso de Transformación Digital de PBS El Salvador

Finding Founders
From Drive By Shootings to a Chicano Social Movements- #166: Raul Baltazar | Creators

Finding Founders

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2023 47:15


 A few inches down and he would have been dead in the front seat of his mom's Mitsubishi. Yet as Raul weaved in and out of traffic towards his future, untouched and laughing, it seemed like it was just another day in 1990s Los Angeles. Flash forward to the present and Raul Baltazar is still in LA, now an established painter and performance artist working to understand the experiences of Mestizo and Mesoamerican Indigenous communities. With exhibitions held in LA, Mexico, Taiwan, Vienna, and Australia, Baltazar's exploration of post colonialism and trauma responses has earned him international acclaim over the past decade. But before he ever went to art school or joined a drag show at the navy, Raul first found his love for art in his hometown. Whether he was going to school or merely walking with his friends, El Sereno's Chicano murals stood out from every wall, telling a story of past resistance…

Groovement
Episode 249: Groovement: Hot 8 Warm Up

Groovement

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2023 123:37


Warming up for the Hot 8 in Manchester at the Albert Hall on Saturday night - not the actual set as it didn't record! So I redid it. Thanks to Band On The Wall and Albert Hall and Manchester Jazz Festival. Big up Hot 8 all day long!   Music from Mestizo, Louis Armstrong, Jay Electronica, Allen Toussaint, DJ Jubilee and many more. 

PCP. Fantastic beats and where to find them
PCP#793… The Great Escape 2023…

PCP. Fantastic beats and where to find them

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2023 110:12


The Great Escape 2023.... three days of great music and great company.... with tracks by... Germein, Pacific Avenue, Reb Fountain, Mestizo, Bibi Club, The Heavy Heavy, Prima Queen, Islet, The Oozes, Moon Matess, Marina [...] The post PCP#793… The Great Escape 2023… appeared first on Pete Cogle's Podcast Factory.

Músicas del agua
Neo Cumbia, Mestizo y Hip-Hop

Músicas del agua

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2023 55:34


Pues un viaje musical lleno de contrastes. El enunciado es explícito de lo que se ha gestado. Comenzamos con sonidos actuales de cumbia interpretados por artistas de seis países, donde la tradición y los sonidos actuales se dan la mano para mostrarnos la versatilidad y evolución de este palo sonoro. Continuamos con sonidos propiamente mestizos. Mestizo referido a aquel movimiento musical que encontró su máxima expresión en la década de los 90 y que supuso el encuentro de muy diferentes corrientes dentro de cada canción. Aquí vale casi todo, y en el caso que nos ocupa oiremos toques de rumba (Cheti & Chukky, Ilan Amores), folk mediterráneo (Che Sudaka & Locomondo), tex-mex (Eskorzo), swing (Burning Caravan) y ska (O Sonoro Maxin). Y finalizamos mostrando diferentes caras de hip-hop.Así nos lo encontraremos interactuando con toques latinos (Sara Socas), con pop-balada (Amaru Tribe con Luka Lesson), con reggae (Dj Vadim & Fat Freddy's Drop), en estado puro (Kool K. & Real Bad Man) y sorprendente por su innovación (Prosper,La Marabout con Hippocampe Fou).

Music Life
La Linea Latin music festival special with Francisco Carrasco, N. Hardem and Chapulines

Music Life

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2023 25:18


Francisco Carrasco and N. Hardem are joined by Graciela Zaera Moraña and Beto Robledo Zaragoza of the band Chapulines to discuss creativity and the songwriting process. These four Latin American artists, who are on the line-up of this year's La Linea Festival in London, UK, talk about their most constant themes in song writing, writing songs in different languages, the spiritual nature of Spanish literature and playing to audiences from different cultures. Francisco Carrasco is a Chilean musician who leads the band Grupo Luma. Born in Santiago but based in the UK, he's a dynamic musician who plays everything from guitar and cuatro to congas and panpipes. He's led art events across the world, including the Merseyside International Street Festival, as well as delivering lectures in universities across the UK, South Africa and Latin America. N. Hardem is a Colombian MC, beat maker and producer, and one of the country's finest wordsmiths. He is the lead MC of British-Colombian ensemble Mestizo, an innovative group building musical bridges between Colombian folk and London hip-hop. Spanish violinist Graciela Zaera Moraña and Mexican singer Beto Robledo Zaragoza are part of Belgium-based band Chapulines. They play an interpretation of son jarocho, a traditional Mexican music genre from the southern state of Veracruz, and take inspiration along the way from the rhythms and sounds of Cuba, Colombia and the Caribbean.

Weird Rap Podcast
24. Jel, Mr. Yote

Weird Rap Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2023 90:56


In this amazing episode we speak with Jel and Mr. Yote. Music recs: Strawberry Shortemper: Bottled Oxygen https://strawberryshortemper.bandcamp.com/album/bottled-oxygen Decuma: Let's Play Pretend https://decuma.bandcamp.com/album/lets-play-pretend Dug Yuck & Babelfishh: Cold Labor https://vivivii.bandcamp.com/album/cold-labor Serengeti: Ajai II https://kennydennis.bandcamp.com/album/ajai-ii DJ 0.000001: Recombinant Shangaan https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/recombinant-shangaan-mixtape Mr. Yote doesn't make rap songs; he has been constructing a rap universe.  Yoteland is a magical, musical world of wizards, goblins, and ghouls.  With his sidekick Yungeth Dre, the producer/MC/graphic artist gives us a glimpse at the methods to his madness.  http://yoteland.bandcamp.com Jel, beat-maker extraordinaire of Themselves, Subtle, Glass Cutters, etc., has remained one of hip hop's most well-respected producers since the late 90s.  In our discussion he covers his formative years in Chicago to later developments in the Bay Area, sharing tales of his days with the Anticon collective, overcoming creative stagnation, and he announces some exciting future projects.  https://jelsmusic.bandcamp.com In the bonus episode we spend an additional half-hour with Jel, your host shares some dicey thoughts and personal stuff, and we've got a slew of additional music recommendations including Raiden X, Algernon Cornelius, Seina Sleep, JUNE!, Celestaphone, Blue Lanternz, Nosaj & Steel Tipped Dove, Robcrooks, Ugggy, Mestizo, Another Planet, and Nappy Nina.  For $3 get this hour-and-a-half-long episode plus all our past bonus episodes including exclusive interviews with Doseone, Pedestrian, Mike Ladd, Billy Woods, and many more, at http://patreon.com/weirdrap. The continuing Great Adventures Of Kounterclockwise is brought to you by MC/producer/screenwriter Deacon Burns.  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZPnW-PHzA7W_-uaCzZOr-gO-k65pJXbt Please check out http://weirdrap.com, and rate/review at http://weirdrap.com/rating.

Up is Down Podcast
Ep 131: Narcotheology Pt 2 :Aztecs, Avocados and Atlantis

Up is Down Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2023 81:31


Greetings to the living. Thank you for listening to Up Is Down and double-plus-good thanks to all who support this work. Welcome to the second part of our examination of Narcotheology. In this second half we look at the Knights Templar Cartel and the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) and the origins of this brutal, bloody new religion. We then move on to the esoteric aspects of narcotheology and it's origins in a little known publication, "La Raza Cosmica", a Latin American nationalist ideology which promotes mestizos as the fifth root race in the Americas that will evolve into the new Atlanteans following the collapse of the prior root races of which Europeans and Americans are doomed by our own vanity and dimwittedness.It's very interesting, especially when you consider the January 10 Declaration of North America signed by Biden, Trudeau, and Lopez Obrador in a pact to unify and strengthen the social, economic and logistic ties shared between the three countries while also paying lip service to the progressive.How does a mythical Mestizo ethnostate overlap with the utracapitalist narco cartels?At what point does the brutality of daily cartel life foster a renewed faith in community?How deep does the corruption go?How do the cartels beccome and remain so tightly organized, well armed and well trained?How is is that Mexico and the rest of Latin America quietly nurture and protect what many in the west consider "far-right nazi extremism"?And where does Atlantis fit into all of this?Learn all of this and more in this second half of Narcotheology.* * * * * * * * * * * *Consider joining us over at Patreon. It's not a big club but we want you in it. Perks include ad-free early release episodes, private chat and open DM's to yours truly, exclusive bonus content, access to ad-free Up Is Down archive, and ad-free early access to DARKN, my strictly dark matters murdercast.We have teirs and tears for everyone. patreon.com/upisdowncast((((S U P P O R T THE S H O W))))PayPal Support Link:https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=U66JAQQUSFSUYBitCoinCash BCH: qzgwfjeu5vp634h84zzurw8kdah5j3cuxg8daq6qrk. Venmo: @Dean-Reiner-1YOU (OR YOUR BANK) CAN SEND A CHECK (or cash) for ANY AMOUNT TO:P.O. BOX 354345 Westfield StreetSilverton, OR 97381(you can even go so far as to schedule recurring, sustaining donations with your own bill pay services via your bank and by doing this you cut out the paypal/mastercard middlemen who charge fees and take a cut for themselves)CONSIDER SUPPORTING THIS WORK BY ACQUIRING SOME ORIGINAL ART THROUGH THE GALLERY SHOP AT deanreiner.comVALUE-FOR-VALUE: Consider the value you have for yourself as a free person with the ability to think for yourself. Next, consider the value you received from this production. Then consider the money value you'd place on that value and consider returning that value in the form of a donation to this production. You can decide for yourself what amount feels right for you. You don't need a PayPal account, just the generosity and will to support something you value and believe in. It all helps. This work is enjoyable but not easy, it takes time and costs money. Your support is needed and highly appreciated.PayPal Support Link:https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=U66JAQQUSFSUYBitCoinCash BCH: qzgwfjeu5vp634h84zzurw8kdah5j3cuxg8daq6qrk. Venmo: @Dean-Reiner-1A GREAT WAY TO SUPPORT THIS WORK IS TO PURCHASE SOME OF MY ARTWORK. BY DOING THIS YOU NOT ONLY SUPPORT ME AND THE SHOW BUT YOU ALSO HAVE SOMETHING TO SHOW FOR IT THAT IS BEAUTIFUL, ORIGINAL AND MADE BY MY OWN HANDS. I DO NOT PRODUCE OR ENDORSE CLEVER MERCH MADE BY FORCED VACCINATED SLAVES IN FACTORIES FAR AWAY. THAT IS NOT WHAT LIBERTY LOOKS LIKE.You can browse some of the art here: deanreiner.comFollow me on them Twitters: @upisdownpodcastEmail me at upisdownpodcast@gmail.comS U B S C R I B ED O N A T ED O W N L O A DR E P O S TS H A R EC O M M E N TS U P P O R TS U P P O R TS U P P O R TR A T E / R E V I E WE M A I L upisdownpodcast@gmail.comdeanreiner.com for more art and support optionsPayPal Support Link:https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=U66JAQQUSFSUYT H A N K Y O U F O R L I S T E N I N GThis podcast contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. It is being made available in an effort to advance the understanding of society, economics and social engineering. It is believed that this constitutes a ‘fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and education purposes.

Four Visions Podcast
1 - A Journey to Communing with Nature with Daniela Riojas.

Four Visions Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2023 66:23


Mariah Gannessa, founder and director of the Four Visions, welcomes Daniela Riojas, healer, educator, medicine keeper, musician and artist, to the podcast. Originally from the border of Texas and Mexico, Daniela is an experienced practitioner of ancestral practices of channeling and meditation, and has undergone extensive training and master plant diets with Indigenous elders. For years, Daniela has been traveling and creating ceremonial healing spaces for communities in diverse lands and countries. She is the founder of Intikhana Medicina, which provides ceremonial healing rooted in Indigenous and Earth-Based practices.  In this episode, Daniela Riojas shares her story of her connection to nature and her journey to becoming a medicine woman. From a young age, Daniela felt a strong connection to Mother Nature and was drawn to exploring the deeper aspects of existence. This ultimately led her to explore the path of the plants and find her elders and teachers who she now studies with in the lineages of Cocama, Shipibo, Ashaninka, and Mestizo.  In the conversation, Daniela shares her insights on connecting to nature, the importance of listening to our intuition, and how to start and deepen our own journey with the plants.In This Episode:    Daniela Riojas | @danielariojas Mariah Gannessa | @mariahgannessa   This podcast is brought to you by Four Visions Website | fourvisions.com Instagram| @fourvisionstribe Facebook | Four Visions Youtube | Four Visions Join Us Live In Arizona For Our 2023 Hapé Practitioner Training March 11-18th Nominate a podcast guest! Intro Music created from music by Juan David Muñoz | @jdmusicesencia Subscribe to the FVM Podcast and leave us a review! iTunes | Spotify | Google Podcasts

The Patty-G Show
Episode #154 - But First, Tequila - Mestizo

The Patty-G Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2023 66:55


Jim Urdiales has been working in and around the restaurant industry since he was eight years old. After telling himself he wouldn't go into the business two generations of his family went into, a voice called him back and told him to open a restaurant serving Louisiana-Mexican-based cuisine. After an arduous first year in business and many obstacles to overcome, Jim accomplished his goals early and eventually opened up a second location. However, Mother Nature had other plans. Jim had to navigate maintaining a business in one of the most cut-throat industries while battling hurricanes, floods, and a global pandemic. Despite the hurdles, Jim jumped and landed on the other side, eventually opening up Mestizo on South Acadian, where he has stayed for 17 consecutive years and counting. In this episode, Jim talks about the hardships he faced his first year as a restaurant owner, the meaning behind the name “Mestizo,” and how he and Baton Rouge have helped each other over the years. Thank you all for listening and supporting the show! It truly means a lot, and we wouldn't be able to do this without you all. If you haven't already, we would be more than grateful if you took the time to rate/review the show wherever you listen/watch us. And don't forget to follow us on social! Sponsors: Fayala Real Estate, Gov't Taco, Horizon Financial Group, Mercedes-Benz of Baton Rouge, Currency Bank, & Lake Men's Health Clinic Patty-G Wardrobe by: McLavy's LTD The Patty-G Show Website: https://thepattygshow.com Mestizo's Website: https://mestizorestaurant.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thepattygshow/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thepattygshow/support

La Torre del Cuervo
Warhammer 40k. "Mestizo & Raza Guerrera" por Graham McNeill

La Torre del Cuervo

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2023 59:22


Mestizo: Honsou regresa a Khalan-Ghol en Medrengard, que sido destruido. Teth Dassadra considera amargamente la injusticia del universo en la forma en que Honsou ha obtenido mucho, mientras que él, un veterano de la Gran Cruzada, no lo ha hecho. Reflexiona sobre esto mientras recoge los proyectiles de bólter que gastó en luchar para abrirse camino de regreso en Khalan-Ghol. Raza Guerrera: Usando trozos de piedra, Perturabo configura un tablero de juego. Dice que si al final no le gusta lo que oye y ve de Honsou, lo matará. Cuando Honsou pregunta qué pasa si lo hace, Perturabo responde todo a su debido tiempo. Primero, cuéntame sobre Hydra Cordatus.” Bienvenidos a la Torre del Cuervo: Si te gusta lo que hacemos apoyanos a través del botón de apoyar o por nuestro Patreon y podrás acceder a los sorteos mensuales con premios valorados en más de 200€. De la mano de nuestra tienda amiga Multiverso Warhammer, os la recomendamos encarecidamente, grandes descuentos. Una tienda con gran variedad de productos y con grandes descuentos. Su página web espectacular: www.multiversowarhammer.com están en la Calle Ortega y Gasset nº8 en Mazarrón, Murcia Reparto: Honsou...................................Xandre, de la Voz de Horus Perturabo...............................Apolo, cuervo de la Tormenta Dassadra................................Antonio Abajo San Juan Narrador................................ElCorintio Apoyanos y entra en nuestro PATREON: https://patreon.com/latorredelcuervo Síguenos en: Facebook: La Torre del Cuervo Twitter: @LaTorredelCuervo Instagram: El_Corintio LaTorre_ delCuervo Youtube: Canal La_Torrede Cuervo Esperamos tus comentarios!!!! "LATORREDELCUERVOpodcast@GMAIL.COM

A Vivir Que Son Dos Días
Mestizo, cocina de origen en Mesitas del Colegio

A Vivir Que Son Dos Días

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2023 6:44


Free 99 Podcast
FREE99 #154 Mestizo Paella w/Special guestJD FRESH

Free 99 Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2022 83:32


Host: Gus, Rommel Guest: JD Fresh Production: Jan Wayne Swayze Sponsor: https://www.instagram.com/mestizopaella

For The Wild
YOALLI RODRIGUEZ on Grief as an Ontological Form of Time /306

For The Wild

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2022


This week, guest Yoalli Rodriguez brings us to the Chacahua-Pastoría Lagoons in Oaxaca, Mexico, to investigate deep connections with land, ongoing colonial violence, and the grief that comes alongside loving a place. The Chacahua-Pastoría Lagoons have long been vital spaces for Black and Indigenous communities, but continued colonial strategies have altered and quartered off the landscape in favor of nationalist and capitalist interests. The conversation dives deep into an understanding of Mestizo geographies and the politics of refusal in the face of oppressive power. Despite the institutional acts of violence that limit sensual and sensorial relationships with the land, people continue to make spaces of their own and lay claims to land that go against colonial rule. With this context, Yoalli and Ayana come to a heartening conversation about the importance of ecological grief, rage, and sadness. Yoalli's work pays deep attention to the everyday lives of those who live around the lagoons, and she notes the care, love, and community that make grief and resistance possible. Here, hope and grief go hand in hand as strategies of resistance and fugitivity. Perhaps slow life and slow feeling can be a counter to the slow violence that has so marred life on earth. Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera is an educator, vinyl selector, and writer born and raised in Mexico but currently based in the U.S. They are currently an Assistant Professor in Anthropology & Sociology and Latin American and Latinx Studies at Lake Forest College, Illinois. They are interested in subjects of anti-colonial, anti-racist feminist struggles, political ecology, and State violence. Music by Fabian Almazan Trio, Eliza Edens, and PALO-MAH. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

The Mestizo Podcast
S3E11 - Mailbag Episode

The Mestizo Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2022 45:50


On this final episode of the season, your hosts answer your questions about the Mestizo church, themes of the season, and tell you what is coming next for the Mestizo Podcast.Support the Mestizo Podcast by giving today.Complete the Survey: Use this link to complete the survey and help us learn how we can better serve you. Have a question you want answered on the podcast? Leave us a message at 312-725-2995. Leave us a 30 second voicemail with your name, city, y pregunta and we'll discuss it on the last episode of the season. You can also submit a question using the form on this page.Merch: Whether you want a t-shirt, hoodie, baby onesie, journal, mug, or sticker, tenemos un poquito de todo. My favorite is the recently released "Product of Abuela's Prayers" crewneck, celebrating the theology we inherit from nuestras Abuelitas. Check out our New merch store by visiting our store. Courses: Want to take courses that prepare you to face the challenges of doing ministry in the hyphen? Visit learn.worldoutspoken.com today and enroll in one of our newest courses.

SGV Master Key Podcast
Carlos Aguilar - Philosopher in production

SGV Master Key Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2022 56:18


Carlos Aguilar is from La Puente, CA and is a multimedia producer, writer and content strategist with over 20 years experience creating content for broadcast and digital audiences.He wrote, directed and produced a series of documentaries on American Idol, NASCAR, The WWE and Oprah Winfrey. He served as Sr. Story Producer on Bristol Palin's Lifetime reality series and produced for the Daytime Emmys.Carlos has led the development and launch of celebrity and brand based content platforms, including Mariah Carey, Magic Johnson, Honda, Becky G and Steve Harvey. Additionally, he's developed content and strategy for Honda, California State Lottery, Kevin Hart's LOL Network and AT&T, to name a few.His writing on music, religion, education and youth culture has appeared in Christianity Today, Sojourners, Prism, Flama and the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. As a hip hop artist known as Bookworm Brown, he's performed across the US, Mexico, Guatemala, China and Japan. As publisher of the leading Latino fatherhood blog, BigBrownDad.com, Carlos speaks and writes about the humor and wisdom found in the challenges of modern day parenting.Carlos recently started Mestizo, a specialty coffee brand that infuses comedy and hip hop into their product offerings.Social Media: instagram.com/drinkmestizoWebsite: mestizo.coffeeBlog: bigbrowndad.com__________ Music Podcast Intro and Outro Everyday, Jason Farnhmam, YouTube Audio Library Podcast Advertisement I love you, Vibe Tracks, YouTube Audio Library Sour Tennessee Red (Sting), John Dewey and the 41 Players, YouTube Audio Library Dewey, Cheedham, and Howe (Sting), John Dewey and the 41 Players, YouTube Audio Library Film Project Countdown.flac Copyright 2013 Iwan Gabovitch, CC-BY3 license

The Steebee Weebee Show
272: Robust on The Steebee Weebee Show

The Steebee Weebee Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2022 53:57


Robust joins The Steebee Weebee Show for the 1st time!!!We talk about: him linking up with the Molemen: a production team from Chicago, the early days of meeting Qwel, the concept behind his first album: Potholes in Our Molecules, Steeb's 1st time meeting Robust, how he got on the Music Label: Galapagos4, my favorite Robust song-"Do It For The Love", his collaborations with the group-Scam Artists, the legacy of the late Cadalack Ron, his album with producer-Prolyphic-"Stick Figures", him learning how to use the MPC60, Mestizo and other G4 artists-Typical Cats, his latest record-Jon Bovi with Max Julian ,and much more !!!!Go to: https://www.youtube.com/steebeeweebee to watch. More: Robust https://www.instagram.com/robustchicago Scissor Bros YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/scissorbros ** Now on iTunes:  https://goo.gl/CdSwyV ** Subscribe: https://goo.gl/d239PO Little Ray promises a Karma Boost if you join our Patreon: https://goo.gl/aiOi7J Or, click here for a one time Karma Boost. https://www.paypal.me/steebeeweebeeshow/2 More Steven: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quangou Bandcamp: https://steebeeweebee.bandcamp.com/ Itunes: https://goo.gl/PSooa0 WEBSITE: https://www.steebeeweebeeshow.com Send stuff to: 1425 N. Cherokee Ave P.O. Box 1391 Los Angeles, CA 90093

The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan
Francis Fukuyama On How Liberalism Split Apart

The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2022 64:06 Very Popular


Fukuyama is simply the most sophisticated and nuanced political scientist in the field today. He’s currently at Stanford, but he’s also taught at Johns Hopkins and George Mason. The author of almost a dozen books, his most famous is The End of History and the Last Man, published shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union. His new book is Liberalism and Its Discontents.You can listen to the episode right away in the audio player above, or click the dropdown menu to add the Dishcast to your podcast feed. For two clips of my convo with Fukuyama — explaining why we need to pay attention to “the men without chests,” and remembering when the political right championed open borders — head over to our YouTube page.Did you ever catch the episode last year with Glenn Greenwald criticizing Bolsonaro, woke journalism, and animal torture? We now have a full transcript available, if you’d rather read the conversation.Back to Fukuyama, the following meme captures much of the sentiment addressed in the episode:A fan of the Dishcast has been anticipating the episode:You announced a few weeks ago that you’d be interviewing Francis Fukuyama, so I decided to re-read The End of History. While I’m sure you’ve no need of assistance of any kind, I wanted to remind you of why some folks are struck by its prescience. Towards the end, he highlights the potential danger for liberal societies that have solved so many problems — there is no end to the amount of “problems” that a society can then invent:To find common purpose in the quiet days of peace is hard…. [When] there is no tyranny or oppression against which to struggle, experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause, because that struggle was victorious in an earlier generation, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain kind of boredom. They cannot imagine living in a world without struggle. If the world they live in is a world characterized by peace and prosperity, then they will struggle against that peace and prosperity … and against democracy.He then refers to some French college-student protests in 1968 against Charles de Gaulle:… [they] had no rational reason to rebel. They were, for the most part, pampered offspring of one of the freest and most prosperous societies on earth. But it was precisely the absence of struggle and sacrifice in their middle-class lives that led them to take to the streets and confront the police … they had no particularly coherent vision of a better society.Like the old Cervantes metaphor — then and now, we see people inventing enemies and problems while they obliviously find themselves “tilting at windmills.”There is no greater example of this, to my mind, than the current LGBTQIA++ movement. Fukuyama and I discuss these people, also known as “the men without chests”:Related to that conversation is a reader email over my recent item, “The Rumblings of Rome”:I enjoyed your take on the faltering mos maiorum of our American republic, and I think you’re onto something important. These values and practices are what keep the system together in times of crisis, and their abandonment is a canary in the democratic coal mine. I know you’ve used the Weimar analogy before, and it is apt: Hitler may have issued the coup de grace to German democracy, but its demise was hastened by powerful elites who in the years beforehand eroded republican norms and removed safeguards to authoritarianism. Certainly the Roman example is also apt, as you convincingly argue here.But what troubles me is a point you make in the linked article in New York Magazine: “But a political system designed for a relatively small city had to make some serious adjustments as its territory and prosperity and population exploded.”  The system was ill-equipped for how Rome evolved over centuries from a city-state to a sprawling empire, and the lack of meaningful reform amplified popular frustrations and opened the door for opportunists like the Gracchus brothers to demagogue, generals like Marius and Sulla to assert political authority, and Senators — desperate to preserve the system — to embrace political violence and thus inadvertently hasten its demise. The system did not evolve enough to meet the challenges posed by expansion, and so people began to reject the system, sometimes for cynical and self-serving reasons, sometimes due to righteous anger born from real suffering, and sometimes in a misguided attempt to save the system from itself.Our America, of course, is vastly different from the Founders’ in any number of areas, and I have often wondered how well our system, even with the amendment process, can respond to the challenges of the 21st century. Especially given our partisan intransigence, our social media echo chambers, and our Super-PAC funded campaigns — things no one imagined in the 18th century — do we really have any chance of meaningful reform on healthcare, welfare, immigration, election integrity, etc.?  To put this another way, democracies work best, I think, when they combine change and continuity — keeping a foot in virtuous traditions while also adapting to new circumstances. If we can’t do the latter, what chance is there to also do the former? I mean, are we fucked?Thanks for your historical thinking on this issue — I try to tell my students that a working knowledge of history is essential to making sense of the modern world. The Sinister Symmetry Of CRT And GRT, CtdReaders continue the debate from this week’s main page over my comparisons of CRT to GRT. This next reader shares a brilliant video on the parallels between right-wing racists and woke racists:Your excellent piece reminded me of this very funny sketch:I recently read James Lindsay’s new book, Race Marxism. His analysis isn’t always watertight, and people have picked holes in the past, but his explanation on page 239 is that this conflict results from the Hegelian dialectical process at the heart of CRT (thesis/antithesis/synthesis):In a very real sense, all of this “alchemy” is meant to reinvigorate the master-slave dialectic in a contemporary cultural and legal context. Indeed, this feature of Critical Race Theory is why so many people rightly perceive that it is, for all its “anti racism” built on an undeniable engine of white supremacy that regards whites as superior, blacks as inferior, and this state being in immediate need of being abolished through critique and multiculturalism. In fact Critical Race Theory defines itself as the antithesis (and method for seeking synthesis) to the systemic “white supremacy” it believes fundamentally organises society …CRT’s version of anti-racism therefore isn’t about a liberal process of using democratic institutions to reduce racism gradually through passing laws and changing public opinion through education. It’s a deliberately confrontational process by which you challenge an idea (racism/white supremacy) with its opposite (antiracism/anti whiteness). We end up in constant racial conflict, as the Hegelians forever continue to restart the dialectic process after every failure they suffer.  This next reader, though, senses a false equivalence:You quoted a reader voicing one of the right’s standard new grievances, about alleged differences in media treatment between the Buffalo shooter and the recent NYC subway shooter. Instead of just nodding along, you should pause for a second and examine this critically, because it’s not an apples-to-apples comparison. The Buffalo shooter wrote a manifesto in which he apparently explained that he intended to target black people and why. And then he did so. The NYC subway shooter, in contrast, made some rambling videos expressing a mishmash of racist views, and then, in addition, he shot up a subway. Have you ever been on the subway? Did it strike you as a bastion of whiteness or white privilege? Is it where you would go to try to kill white people (or shoot them in the legs, as he apparently did, for whatever mentally disturbed reason)? Is there any evidence that he selected white people out of the crowd? His attack was just some kind of weirdly disordered thinking, or perhaps intended in a foggy sense as an attack on New York City, whose (black) mayor he had also criticized.I think that’s a fair distinction, especially the choice of target. Another reader claims a false equivalence of a very different sort:I found your latest column unpersuasive. While I like the aesthetic symmetry of “CRT and GRT” as a title, I am not at all convinced there exists an actual intellectual symmetry of the two things as distinct ideas. Yes, both depend on and promote a race-essentialist worldview, and both undermine our nation’s ideals and identity. But that is where their symmetry ends. On a political level, CRT not only claims far more power throughout all our elite institutions, but it also holds responsibility for far more violence and destruction. Which major institution has propagated anything close to GRT? One could make a case for Fox News through Tucker Carlson. I would disagree — as would your podcast guest Briahna Joy Gray, who is on the left. But even so, that is one institution that claims any kind of power in our society, compared to all the others captured by CRT. In terms of violence and destruction, see no further than the summer 2020 riots and the various other attacks motivated by anti-whiteness. Of course, none of this is to dismiss the vile atrocities committed by white supremacists. But I don’t understand why you find the need to draw a false equivalence between the two when one of these evils is clearly a fringe element of our society, with no real threat of spreading further beyond its current limits, while the other already has near-complete elite capture.Also, a minor but important point: you wrote that “Hispanics are originally from Europe.” This is false. The reason Hispanics/Latinos are considered an ethnicity and not a race in the U.S. context is that we are a complete mix of many races. There are Asian Peruvians, Black Cubans, Indigenous Mexicans, White Argentines, and a complete mix of all of the above and more, including mestizos, mulattos, et al. Of course, Hispanics/Latinos (which are not the same circles, by the way; most of Latin America is considered both, but Brazilians are Latinos and not Hispanics, and Spaniards are Hispanics but not Latinos) are united by a common Iberian history, which has resulted in common institutions, heritage, culture, religion, and pair of languages (Spanish and Portuguese). But given the deep, centuries-old mix of indigenous peoples and African slaves and Asian immigrants beyond just Europeans throughout Latin America, it’s just false to claim that “Hispanics are originally from Europe.”Along those lines, another adds:In 2019, Mexican-Americans comprised 61.5% of all Latino Americans, so by and large, when we discuss Hispanics, we are generally discussing Mexican immigrants. Weren’t there a lot of indigenous people in Mexico and Central America at the time of the Conquest? Didn’t most of them have children, so that those children are reflected in current demographic analyses of Mexico?The 1921 census shows Mestizos and indigenous groups as the majority — usually the vast majority — in literally every Mexican state. Numbers of self-reported “white” Mexicans have increased substantially since then (though no explanation is posited for the decline in Mestizo or indigenous populations), but self-identified “whites” still are a minority at 47% of the Mexican population, with 51.5% as either indigenous or “most likely Mestizos.” Frankly, it is likely not the white groups that are congregating at the border. Your explanation seems to assume that Mexico was unpopulated at the time of the Conquest, which is a gross misrepresentation. Thanks for these complications of too breezy a statement. Another reader gets philosophical:I enjoyed your piece this week on CRT/GRT. Also, on Friday I read David Brooks’ piece on conservatism/progressivism, and it made me think of John Keats’ bitter — and ultimately incorrect — epitaph for himself: “Here lies one whose name is writ in water.” That would fit most of those who have ever walked the earth, including most “public intellectuals,” to use your phrase. Humans come and go, and we know damned well that we are likely soon to be forgotten, unless we become a curiosity for ancestry researchers.It strikes me that this is a defense for conservative “philosophy.” We don’t live a life entirely within ourselves. We pay attention to what has gone before. Progressives see a long history of oppression, identify with it, and project it into the future. Conservatives are mindful of the past, in family, ethnicity and faith; even if some of it is wrapped in a flag of “patriotism.” Tradition is important to both sides, for better or for worse. We can’t escape it, so why not find ways to discuss it civilly? Which brings me back to Keats. His eying expression of humility was mistaken. Present-day feelings of certitude, on left or right, are badly in need of humility — and that, I believe, is a conservative thought.Me too.David French On Religious Liberty, CRT, Grace, CtdFrom a “gay, Christian, moderate conservative”:I thoroughly enjoyed your episode with David French, especially since I got to hear the two of you discuss Church of Christ theology at the beginning. I grew up in the Church of Christ denomination and went to a sister school (Abilene Christian University) of the one French attended (Lipscomb). The faith journey you both described is one very familiar to me. My boyfriend also grew up in the Church of Christ tradition and we still feel a certain affinity to it, although it’s obviously not a tradition that affirms same-sex relationships.I loved that the two of you were able to have such a gracious conversation about faith and politics. I enjoy reminders that one’s stance on gay marriage is hardly the litmus test for both conservatism and Christianity that it once was. There’s so much more common ground to explore, and Christianity and conservatism are big enough for differing views — even in the midst of this bizarre cultural climate we’re in.Here’s a snippet of my convo with David: Another listener makes a recommendation:In follow-up to your conversation with David French, could you possibly interview Tim Alberta? His new article in The Atlantic, “How Politics Poisoned the Evangelical Church,” is worth your attention.Indeed. Thanks for the tip. Lastly, a sermon for Sunday:I am an Episcopal priest in Atlanta (though hopefully one not quite as woke as Douglas Murray accuses us of being). If it’s not too bold, I wanted to send you the manuscript of my sermon from last Sunday. The sermon is from a small passage for Easter 6, Revelation 22.3-4: “Nothing accursed will be found there any more. But the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him; they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.”I started working on it, and then on Friday I heard the first part of your interview with David French. I think that interview found its way into my sermon, and I know that your ongoing conversations have affected my preaching in a positive way.The manuscript is pasted below, but I’ll close by saying again how grateful I am for your podcast, and I hope that you might consider occasionally having theologians onto your show.  I’ve loved hearing you talk about faith with Cornell West and David French, and I think it might be fascinating to have a systematic theological think through issues like CRT and gender.The sermon in full:“They’re out to get you.”  That’s what the world will tell you, over and over.  “They” — whoever they are — “really are out to get you.”Now, sometimes it’s true.  The world can be a dangerous place, after all.  But usually the message isn’t that they are after you, Jennifer, or you, Meredith, or Kevon, or Rafael, or whatever your name might be.And they’re not after you because of your character or your choices.  The message is that they are after you because of your team, because of your skin color, or where you were born, or your gender.  They’re after you because of what you represent.And again, sometimes it’s true.  Last weekend the threats were real on both sides of our country.Last weekend a young man consumed by evil drove 200 miles to Buffalo to open fire on innocent people.  But not just any innocent people.  He targeted a black neighborhood because he wanted to send a message of hate, a message of terror.  He wanted black people all across the country to believe that they had a target on their backs. And with our history of violence and terror, our black sisters and brothers heard his message.On the other side of the country another man used a gun to send the same message of hate to a different group of people.  In California the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church was enjoying a church picnic when a Chinese-born American citizen walked up and started shooting.The sheriff said the man was motivated by his hatred of Taiwan, and he sent his message of hate and terror to those innocent people.+++The messages don’t always come with bullets, and they aren’t always about race, and they also aren’t limited to one side of our national divide.When you listen with a careful ear to the issues that divide us, what gives them their power is the underlying threat that something of YOUR identity, something of YOUR autonomy, is about to be taken away.“They” are going to take something away from you because of who you are.+++I remember 20 years ago after the Twin Towers fell, the rhetoric on both sides of our political culture was that “they” hated our freedom, hated capitalism, hated democracy.  That “they” were coming for us.Two years later, our church was almost split apart by the debate over same-sex relationships.  For the progressive, the message was that “they” were coming for your right to love who you choose.  For the conservative the message was that “they” were coming to destroy the social values you had been taught were right and good.We hear those threats still today.  The uproar over cancel culture and over excesses in cultural trends doesn’t feel to some conservatives like an interesting social trend; it feels like a threat.  It feels like “they” are telling conservatives,  “We’re coming for you.”On the other side, progressives and especially progressive women heard an old threat earlier this month: “They’re coming to take away control of your bodies.”  When that Supreme Court draft was leaked, the message went forth - “They’re coming for you, they’re coming to take control of your bodies away from you.”In fact, they’re not just coming for your right to an abortion, they’re also coming to take away Obergefell and then Loving and then Brown v. Board of Education.+++So…I’ve been taking some big swings up here this morning, on things that are frankly outside of my area of expertise, and I haven’t said a word yet about God or Jesus or had any kind of gospel message.That’s about to change, but the reason I’m trying to bring up all the touchy stuff is because the call to follow isn’t just for other people and it isn’t just for when somebody cuts you off in traffic. Now let me repeat my disclaimer.  I’m not saying the threats are all imagined, or that they’re all equal.  Sometimes the threat is real.  BUT, in the face of those threats, in the face of the world’s desire to put you on notice that you NEED to be afraid, the question for us this morning is, “Should my being a follower of Jesus affect how I respond?”+++When I was first ordained Bishop Alexander told me to always keep my vows in the correct order. He meant that FIRST I was a baptized child of God, THEN I was Emily’s husband, and THEN I was a priest, and if I remembered the hierarchy of those vows my life would be properly ordered.I haven’t always gotten it right but when I’ve gotten a little unbalanced his advice has helped me get back where I need to be.And Bishop Neil’s advice helped me to see something even deeper:  we all move through the world with multiple identities and we have to keep them in their proper order.In my case I can think of myself as a man, even as a white man, as a Georgian, an American a Christian, a father, a husband, priest, neighbor, brother, and of course a really, really good singer/dancer.Almost all of those identities are important but for me to be who I aspire to be there needs to be a hierarchy to them.  I need to make sure all those identities are properly ordered.+++There’s a distinction in Christianity between being a Creature of God and a Child of God.All of us are Creatures of God.  All of us, every person who ever lived, are creatures of God.  Our first and most important identity is that we are created by a God who loves every single one of us and that, as Fr. Rhett said last Sunday, there’s not a thing you can do about it.And for those of us baptized into the body of Christ, those of us who believe in Jesus as the crucified and risen Lord we have a second and eternal identity - beloved Child of God.+++A properly ordered life embraces those two identities - beloved Creature of God and beloved Child of God - as more important than all the others we have.  And then downstream of those two come all the rest:  gender, sex, family, values, race, creed, and on and on.So am I white?  Am I black?  Am I Taiwanese or Woman or Man or Husband or parent or Democrat or Republican or even American? Yes, I am all of those things and more, but my first identity, the very core of who I am, is always beloved Creature of God, and my eternal hope is not in escaping the threats or defeating my enemies but in holding on to my identity as a Child of God, as a member of the Body of Christ.+++The world will try to disorder your identities.  The world will whisper and then shout fear & danger & division, will try to make your threatened identity the center of who you are.When evil drives to Buffalo, fear will tell you that your first identity is the color of your skin, and that it always will be.When evil drives to a church picnic, fear tells you that your primary identity, your fundamental self is as a pawn in a great ethnic & political strife.When cultural values change, when marriage is redefined, or social programs try to right historic wrongs, or when human laws try to legislate that which cannot be legislated but must be legislated, when they try to balance the rights of the mother and the rights of the unborn, fear will tell you that your core identity is not beloved Creature of God or beloved Child of God, but is your demographic or political or racial or gender identity, and that your response has to come from that threatened self.But Jesus tells us something different.  Jesus tells us to love our enemies.Jesus tells us we are all beloved creatures of God, the just and unjust alike, AND that those baptized into his death and resurrection have an ETERNAL identity greater than anything else about us, an ETERNAL hope that will live  beyond any other understanding of self.+++Our response to Jesus’ message is to understand who we really are and order our identities so that we do not respond to threats as the world does.Our call is to respond as beloved, as BELOVED children of God who share a common humanity and a common creator, and as people whose hope is not in temporary victories but in eternal life.+++It’s not easy.Hate invites you to respond with hate.  Fear invites you to respond with fear.Change makes you want to dig in your heels and hunker down and defend YOUR turf, YOUR way of life, with all that you’ve got.No wonder Jesus said we must give up our lives to follow him.+++In the Revelation to John, Jesus showed John a vision of the heavenly city.  In that city the Children of God had the name of Jesus written on each of their foreheads.Using our language of baptism, they were sealed by the Holy Spirit and marked as Christ’s own forever.WE are those Children of God.  Our true identity is not in any of our human distinctions but in the name of Jesus written across our faces.Our task is to understand that truth and to live it, to treat one another with that common heritage as Creatures of God even when we feel threatened by one another, and to teach our children that no matter what the world whispers to them about who they are, their truest, deepest, most fundamental self will always be … Beloved of God. Get full access to The Weekly Dish at andrewsullivan.substack.com/subscribe

The Nutrition Translator Podcast
Medicine Song (Icaro): Calling in the Trees for Protection

The Nutrition Translator Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2022 3:53


I would like to share an Icaro, (medicine song) that is sung in Ayahuasca ceremony in the Mestizo tradition. I call in 2 trees in for protection, Ayahuma (the cannonball tree), and Lupuna Blanca. Ayahuma is regarded as an immensely grounding master plant that can help you to gain resilience and wisdom through releasing past trauma and stored emotion. The warming protective qualities of the Ayahuma spirit can help us access previously unchartered levels of vulnerability. For me, Ayahuma created a wall of protection around me and is like my tree boyfriend :) representing the Sacred Masculine. Lupuna is one of the biggest trees in the Amazon. It stands tall and proud and reminds us to do the same. Connect to this tree to bring you strength, courage, expansion and self-value. For me, when dieting Lupuna, she brought in sparkling, white magic and helped me connect back to my power.In the song you will hear Spanish lyrics like Poderosa Medicina, which means powerful medicine, Poderoso icaroini, which means powerful icaro, Limpia limpia cuerpocito, which means clean our bodies, Limpia limpia shungoini, clean our hearts, Limpia limpia sentidito, which means clean our thoughts/emotions, and Pura Medicina, which means we are calling in medicine that is pure with love. I recommend to not listen to this icaro while driving. Sending you so much love in your healing journey my friend! Love, Colleen

The Mestizo Podcast
S3E1 - Dinámicas Entre Nosotros

The Mestizo Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2022 53:45


On this episode, we welcome you back to the show, introduce the theme for the new season, “the dynamics between us,” and forecast some of what's coming in the season. Support the Mestizo Podcast by giving today.Have a question you want answered on the podcast? Leave us a message at 312-725-2995. Leave us a 30 second voicemail with your name, city, y pregunta and we'll discuss it on the last episode of the season. You can also submit a question using the form on this page.Merch: You can now support the show and represent la Iglesia Mestiza. Check out our New merch store by visiting our store. Courses: Want to take courses that prepare you to face the challenges of doing ministry in the hyphen? Visit learn.worldoutspoken.com today and enroll in one of our newest courses. Special Offer: Don't forget that as a listener of The Mestizo Podcast, you can get 30% off + free US shipping when you shop at InterVarsity Press and use the promo code: MESTIZO.

The Mestizo Podcast
S2E14 - BONUS Introducing La Ventanita Podcast

The Mestizo Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2022 61:01


What would it look like if a church was planted with the expressed purpose of reaching bi-cultural, 2nd and 3rd generation Latinos? What would some of the initial challenges be? How would a pastoral team tackle them?On this bonus episode, we introduce you to World Outspoken's newest podcast, La Ventanita. Pull up a seat with Jeremy Barahona and Joshua Suh to hear about the process of church planting on the south end of West Palm Beach… as it's happening. La Ventanita Podcast gives you a behind the scenes look as Jeremy and his team launch The Light WPB, a church deeply committed to the neighborhood.Expect talk about everything from the Bible, hip-hop, and Latinidad. The episode you are about to hear gets into the honest struggle of church plant fundraising. For more episodes like this one, subscribe to La Ventanita on your favorite podcast app. And don't forget the Mestizo Podcast returns this March 2022 with lo Bueno como siempre.Support the Mestizo Podcast by giving today.Purchase Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and IdentityDon't forget that as a listener of The Mestizo Podcast, you can get 30% off + free US shipping when you use the promo code: MESTIZO. Don't wait. Get a great deal on a great book, today.