What's not getting covered are the everyday occurrences in the low-income neighborhoods among minorities.

If you take them in their totality, that is a mass shooting.

Hey, welcome to In The Thick, I'm Maria Ino Hossam.

And I'm Holy Horikalo Barilla.

So my dear listener, there is so much stuff going on out there there and we're kind of going to take a break from that

but not really because it's such an American story what we're going to talk about today

Joining us from Fairfield, California is Patty Nablta Poblete.

She's a Filipino American journalist and she has a new memoir out.

It's called A Better Place.

Twice she was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for her editorial series

on Foster Care Reform with the San Francisco Chronicle.

Hey Patty.

Hi.

So your memoir, truth be told, it's heartbreaking. It is a story about your loss of your son and then your redemption.

Robbie, your son was murdered by gun violence four years ago in broad daylight in

his truck at an intersection in Vallejo, California. He was 23 years old and

Patty you founded a foundation named after your son. It's the

Robbie Popleti Foundation and it promotes gun buybacks, converting unwanted guns

into art, and also for formerly incarcerated people restorative

justice programs. So first you said in your book that you got to know your

son even after he passed away you were coming to know him.

And you started reading all of his books on his books shelf which is, oh my God, so difficult.

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