Hey, it's Anna. I want to let you know that this episode includes a description of a rape.

It comes up at the start of the second half if you want to skip.

I don't think you can be practicing self-love and being angry at everybody else.

I just don't think you can do it. I don't think you can be like, oh, my God, and I'm going to go and meditate.

But I hate this motherfucker and fuck you and I hate you and you and I'm not forgiving. No. So this is what I'm saying,

that I had to have a moment where everything would have been crumbling down except for key people

in my life who said, you know, these people love you. Right. So, so, so, so what are you going to do?

This is death, sex, and money.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.

I mean, I'm Mesao.

For more than 25 years, journalist Maria Inajosa has hosted the public radio show Latino USA.

She's also been a correspondent for NPR, PBS, and CNN, and is the CEO of her

own production company. In order to survive the world that I've been playing in, the world of

media, you have to have a huge fucking ego. There ain't no other way to do it. In most newsrooms

where she's worked, Maria was the first or only Latina, and she writes in a new memoir called Once I Was You.

She's often felt underestimated and undermined by her white colleagues.

And I talk about this a lot, by the way, to my students, most of whom are of color, most of whom are first generation, is that as Latinos and Latinas and as people of

color in general, we have to walk. And I actually, I strut for them. I get in the front of the

class. Usually I'm wearing my six-inch heels or something like that, so strutting is easy.

And I'm strutting, and I'm like, you are walking in a space like this.

Your shoulders are back.

You know everything about everybody.

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