Hi this is Favi Fau and that's it because

Bavalito's on a break.

Hi, this is Favi Fau, and that's it, because Babelito's on a break.

It's just me and we're supposed to go back to this every other week format in July, but you know, I can't quit y'all okay so I'm gonna

air an episode today it's a rebroadcast of our classic Latinos who lunch episode,

Not My Monument, where we reacted to the movement

of taking down these Confederate statues and symbols throughout the nation that started after the

white supremacist slash neo-Nazi slash terrorist rally that happened in Charlottesville in 2017 and so that

podcast even though it was three years ago, is so relevant right now.

We talk about symbols of the Confederacy.

We talk about the monuments that we are allowed to have as Latinos as people of color and we also talk about

Hey Reb the Confederate mascot at UNLV which has since you know evolved to a mountain man or a frontiersman which it's not much better

than a Confederate soldier. It's still a symbol of manifest destiny and I know people are arguing

about that still get over yourselves people just just stop.

It's not great and so there's been a lot of updates recently with, you know, with what's been going on right now with the Black Lives Matter movement.

And also, I'm a little bit more politically active and have tried my best to you know be a

member of the community here in Las Vegas that is trying to change

institutional racism and white supremacy where I can so as many of you know that are on our Patreon, I talked about in detail about the

Neon Museum and the open letter that I wrote to them last week and so if you don't know just a brief

recap much like every other cultural institution in Las Vegas not, a few of them did speak out,

but like most of them tried to remain very neutral

and not upset anybody.

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