I can relate to at the moment.
And maybe again, I have to personalize that any kind
of discrimination that stops a man from earning a living.
And when I see that people and let me
say something and it's terrible, because I'm sure that
it's a human quality, not only particular to the
Mexican, but there's a kind of a pride.
Maybe it comes from Machismo,
a word that I'm not too much in favor
of because again it's a kind of chauvinism, but a kind
of machismo, a kind of a pride of a
man being able to support his family and so
forth and the indignities that poverty brings to people.
This is the thing that I can
relate most to immediate... the immediate thing
of people really being allowed to work.
And when I see these poor families in these barrios
who know that they're being discriminated against simply because their
skin is a certain color, because their name is not
Anglo and that they have to work for $3.20 a
day whereby the other man can make $9 or $10
or whatever it is and he knows that he's been
discriminated against I just don't understand it.
I certainly feel, having known the indignity of
hunger, having known the indignity of poverty and
feeling, as I said before, that you cannot
have a healthy mind without a healthy body.
And I know that you cannot have a healthy brain
on an empty stomach and with a distended belly that
I think that that's where it's at first.
I mean, you must feed the people.
You must see that they have the
dignity and that they are employed and
they don't feel this ugly discrimination.
So from the standpoint of the Commission, I can
only say that I would do anything in the
world to help them to be of some use.