Chelsea, MA Unsorted, 26 Oct 2021

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From YouTube: REACH Hispanic Heritage Celebration 2021

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City of Chelsea, Chelsea Public Schools

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So the more you guys, the more you engage, your lower body.

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Five: six: five, six, seven, eight.

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Very good now open your.

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Let's go come on.

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One more time.

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Leg: hips, relax the arms.

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Five: six seven, eight.

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Let's go single double single body.

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One two three one, two three one, two three one, two seven one two seconds absolutely.

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The same thing.

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Let's go two three one. Two three times.

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Maybe you want to do something like that here.

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Here she- or maybe here.

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Fun with us come check us out with the reach program, all right next step, we're going to go, watch the agenda because we got a really busy day and everybody wants some good food. So next up we have a guest speaker. um His name is armando escobar. He is owner of dueno market aka. Also, the laundromat in chelsea laundry mat, I'm happy to be.

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And share a little bit about his life, his story, how he got to be an owner of two um businesses here in our community, come here.

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Our next speaker, armando escobar, he is the owner of the pinot needs market and also the owner of the centenary.

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Man in chelsea, please give him a round of.

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To be right now,.

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Came to chelsea when I was 18 years of age.

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So it has been a long time.

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Important that we preserve our culture and our traditions, because when we go back and think about what we can do in our country,.

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At a young it can be very traumatizing.

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He said that it doesn't matter if there is a saying that you're from honduras, el salvador or if any of these fights back here.

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Why I am here and they invited.

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I came to this country when I was 18 years of age and I started working as a dishwasher.

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But I never lost my focus.

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You know a different language, my relief economically.

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Nor speaking, english, I'm able to have today my two businesses.

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Live your dream and try to um make your dream come true. As a parent student or whatever family member, you are.

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Have to step out of your comfort zone.

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Spanish person that.

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Step out of comfort zone.

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And be where they are.

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So, as spanish people, we need to show other people around the world that we are not the worst, that we have better to offer to others.

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But a lot of people that are here today, I know that they have dreams and goals.

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Immigrants and spanish speakers, we can give a big contribution to this country.

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It doesn't matter how small it is.

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And this is something that we have.

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And one of the things that we always do is that we do everything together as a family. Our goal is, as the families that we accomplish it together.

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So with that, let's have some fun. Let's get the party started with the performances, daenerys.

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That was a beautiful.

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Whoever is coming up on the night, I'm going to do a little something different today, I'm going to say x up and on jack, so that all the performers know right. It's performing thank you who will be performing next.

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Cool got it all right, so this person I have to make contact with that person is.

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I want to tell.

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I want to tell you thank you for never ending sacrifices. She came to america, young alone, no family, little money and no place to stay.

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She loved knowing the opportunities in america and today she because of her great willingness to start a whole new life in america. I can thank her for the opportunities I'm given today. I can gather.

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A senior this year no way, let me rephrase that.

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I will be a second.

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High school graduate.

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Have taught me to.

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Bring my heritage.

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To newcoming generations to achieve things not only for myself, but my future family.

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Blissful situation, so I'm excited for everyone to experience you and let's give it up for jay everybody.

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Because I have a lot of love.

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So I just wanted to give you the title, and she gave me of course,.

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So before I write, I always I would say.

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We had them on chelsea day in 2019, and they did a great work that we actually called them back for 2021 and.

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um They were there again, this.

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Year but for next.

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We're actually gonna give them instead of.

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20 30 minutes we're.

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Going to give them a full-blown hour because they represent the community.

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They're doing another.

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So this poem is actually right off of one of an essay I did so. I went to school for uh I'm studying english at the brumble school of english. I just graduated this summer.

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And this book is primarily about her experience living in um mexico, the right not in mexico, in texas, at the borderline, texas and mexico, and so pretty much. I.

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Make sure you straighten your negra, don't be walking out here. Looking like a negative, don't talk too loud, you'll wake the neighbors turn the music off sit, pull your way back home negative, don't speak! Your voice may make them feel uncomfortable.

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You are a morena.

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But you are not black.

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Negra talk to them, nice.

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They will never take you serious.

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The white man is always right. Listen to him.

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Want to get paid.

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Do what you're told.

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Is an identity? Many people are currently reclaiming some have no idea where they really come from, while others refuse to accept it.

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Spanish-Speaking people from different cultures and ethnicities, we are a collective of multiple shades dialects and history and being dominican-american growing up in lawrence massachusetts.

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We are also stuck in the borderline theory, the theory of being caught in two worlds: two realms between being two dominican and not dominican enough being an afro-latina. I neglected the afro in me, despite how obvious it was in my appearance, my hair and my attitude within my family.

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My afro identity was also something they wanted to dismiss. I was.

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Embarrassed when my grandma.

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Called me negra indiana, I replied.

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We have so this person used to be my student and now he's my co-worker. So it's like. I find myself.

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Or eventually you might, but it's always important to know about self-love and value on yourself and that's what this is about.

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It's two different people in this world that we got one's looking at my spot, while I'm looking at the top right before somebody popped or that loyalty gonna stop because the stuff that they don't want and what they want is what you got or that love that's gonna! Stop! That's your brother.

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But I'm years of being friends, but at the end you don't be squat. I had friends that had to drop same.

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Same block, I got people, but I learned I'm the only thing I've got. I ain't perfect, I'm my best, I just stuff that I regret. I just had to do some things that even I just can't respect. I had no that's why I know I should have walked away and left. I'm just telling you some stuff that I got heavy on my chest. I should have stood, I should arise, I might have never tried.

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I just think I couldn't do it and that was overcome my pride many moments when I cried many moments when I lie what makes it messed up, because I never apologize, but I made mistakes and I accept it because I'm human change the way I'm moving change, the way that I'm renewable, a different man like everything I say is what I'm doing. I can't focus on my body because I wanted to lose and I had to plan to be a man I had to hurt to understand. My back was on that wall.

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I never got the help.

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Is my truth, I put my heart out in this book suffolk county, where I'm not in my city on the map. I ain't got enough time to chill and I don't have no time to slap. I don't got no time to chill. I don't got the time to slap, but it is what it is.

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Program, maybe you guys.

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Can be my co-worker or maybe I'll, be your boss.

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A lot of possibilities.

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So stephanie, how you doing are you good all right? I'm gonna go back to regular programming. So up next we have stephanie, but before that I gotta.

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You and then on bed. We have crushes so jojo if you can help us make sure that precious has their song cool cool.

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Hello, we love you so much in this program. Like you make everything just happen, you bring everything to life like we give you or you you give us no time or you give us too much time and we still make everything magical. So what.

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Appreciate you, when.

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I can't breathe not because I lack melanin I can't breathe, not because of police brutality. You see, our people are suffocating. The ignorance that we know all belong is frustrating that our food is great, but our people are not is worth annotating. Look around we're beautiful in every home. Now, hey, hey!

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I could be the next man.

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I can't breathe until society accepts our people.

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But I know that we have some technical stuff to do compressions so give us some time.

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I'm almost done at berkeley college when he's a first generation college student.

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This song is my latest release. I just dropped it on friday on all platforms. It's called.

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Rare and what that means is that all the barriers that you have to fight through as.

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You stay true to yourself and you do what you gotta do nobody's gonna, stop before your dreams.

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For all of my dreams, because none of this has ever reserved.

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But these things don't.

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Matter at all,.

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We are so excited. This is our final performance. Everybody.

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Has been one of my.

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I'm so excited for we are.

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Thank you for coming. I love you all. Thank you so much for being here.

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