Will Latinos be Racist Towards Black American When they Gain Power “Si se Puede”

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]Let's talk about this racist HPD officer Ashley Gonzales who got caught being racist on the internet. I showed the video a bunch of times. We don't need to see it again.

[00:00:09]All right. Now, what happens when these culturally racist people begin to take up positions of power? Okay?

[00:00:15]You you you you have incidents that happen where, you know, people like this officer Ashley Gonzales, she recorded herself like an idiot talking about how she hates black people like an idiot using a racial slur, the hard R. And that wasn't a rumor. That wasn't hearsay.

[00:00:31]This was a video that went viral on the internet and it was serious enough for the HPD to immediately relieve her of her duty, took her badge, her gun, and launched an internal investigation. And this is where the conversation stopped being theoretical and becomes real because now you're talking about somebody on social media talking about someone who's sworn in in law enforcement in January 2024 who had authority to stop and detain people who look like me, black people, all people, will arrest you under certain circumstances and use force against you, and it's really just her word against yours.

[00:01:07]Okay?

[00:01:08]And according to the reports in in that video, she didn't just express hatred, she went further. She talked about prior interactions and suggested that she would treat black people differently on calls, even she referred to to use the language during an arrest. That's what she was talking about.

[00:01:25]Grabbing a N-word by the back of the neck.

[00:01:27]And right there is exactly the question.

[00:01:29]How do you How does a racist bigoted person apply their authority? And so because the state of Texas and the city of Houston gave her a gun and a badge and and legal authority, then you know, you you give someone that kind of power, you're not just training, you're you're you're you're you're trusting their judgment, you're you're you're you're trusting their discretion, you're trusting how they interpret the situation. And think about it.

[00:01:52]Think about what happens on on the street level when when when when every traffic stop, every call, every interaction, if someone already has that mindset and and and whether it's hatred or bias or distorted perception, then every decision she they make is filtered through that that racial lens and who looks suspicious, who gets searched, who gets been the benefit of the doubt and who does it's going to not going to be that blind hair blue eyed white man.

[00:02:18]He's He's not going to look suspicious.

[00:02:20]It's going to be the black boy who might be a student at TSU or U of H or one of the other local colleges.

[00:02:25]And that goes all across the country, okay? All these racist folk. Now, in response to the incident, you know, they had community leaders come out. They condemned it. She got fired because they recognize this is a real danger. Now, here here's where it connects to the bigger picture. This is not just about an officer. This is about what happens when someone with those kinds of views is placed inside an institution that already has a has broad authority over people's lives. These people they give these people's guns.

[00:02:54]Okay? And qualified immunity. Because see, policing is not neutral. It's discretionary.

[00:03:00]Officers decide decide how to apply the law every single day. And research backs that up. Okay? We know that. We know that first hand. So, what happens then?

[00:03:12]All right?

[00:03:13]You know, what happens when instead of having some lowly two-year cop who's out there on the beat with a bad attitude and racial uh uh uh uh prejudice on the mind, you now have someone whose personal bias can translate to state action into arrest and into charges and into use of force and into a decision that can change somebody's life. That could have been anybody's son she picked up.

[00:03:36]Now, let's move forward. What happens when look at these racist Latino Republicans in Miami?

[00:03:42]Okay? What happens when when when these kids grow up and and they get high positions of power, they become the Marco Rubios of the world, they end up in politics. Look Look what happened in Miami. This wasn't a rumor.

[00:03:55]This wasn't somebody trying to smear these people with gossip. Look at the Miami Herald. They The Miami Herald reported this. It's not just an internet thing.

[00:04:03]Young Republican act They They They They people tied to the campus organizations, local party Republican Party structure. They got exposed.

[00:04:12]Okay? That I mean they had a chat filled with racist slur. They look The The kid The young people in this they used 400 different variations of the N-word. I didn't even know they had that many variations of the N-word actually, but 400 different variations of the N-word in this group chat.

[00:04:33]Along with anti-Semitic stuff. You know what I'm saying?

[00:04:39]They referenced Hitler's politics.

[00:04:43]You see?

[00:04:44]They described dozens of ways of violently unaliving black people.

[00:04:49]And at one point the chat itself was re- named was renamed in a way and tied to Nazi ideology with And one participant described it as a a Nazi heaven and all and put a N on the front of that.

[00:05:04]You see? And this is where it gets serious cuz you know, these were not random people online. These were persons connected to political pipelines. These were students. There's a law student involved in that. He's only a year away from being a lawyer.

[00:05:17]They were campus organizing people linked to local Republican Party.

[00:05:22]You know what I'm saying?

[00:05:24]You have this one cat, Daryl Gonzalez.

[00:05:26]He served as a college Republican recruitment chair. This is who he's bringing in.

[00:05:31]So, this means this wasn't an isolated behavior. It It It It's what It was happening inside a pipeline that leads directly to political power. Campus politics, local party leadership, and then potentially staff roles and appointments and elected These people are going to be next to the president.

[00:05:49]You understand what I'm saying?

[00:05:52]And the details make it worse, not better. This wasn't just a off-color humor or isolated incident. It was repeated, normalized, and reinforced behavior.

[00:06:02]Uh the participant mocked black professors.

[00:06:06]They They statements like avoid black people like the plague and and engage in conversations openly fantasize about unaliving black people, violence towards uh And that matters because it shows something deeper than than a person's prejudice. It shows a group environment where this kind of thinking is not only accepted, but encouraged. And they didn't get it at school. They got it from their homes.

[00:06:28]You understand what I'm saying? And that's why I say this is cultural racism. And see, at this point, unlike a person who is merely prejudiced or bigoted in private, when when people operating in a in a kind of environment move into positions of power, they have the ability to institutionalize those views. That's where the racism comes in.

[00:06:48]That's where it translates from bigotry prejudice to racism. And this is the danger to foundational black Americans.

[00:06:55]This is what we're facing. This is the fight that we have. The new face of white supremacy is brown.

[00:07:02]You see, and the problem is not just that someone had ugly thoughts in their head. The problem is what happens when those thoughts are attached to access, influence, party machinery, machinery, hiring authority, campaign strategy, legislation, and public also office.

[00:07:21]So, you know, and those that that that that matters.

[00:07:27]So, the lesson's not subtle. When you have people rising in the higher positions of power from environments like this, the danger is not simply that they are racist or say racist things. The danger is that they can convert private contempt into public consequences. And they can wrap bias in the language of policy, frame exclusions as order, and then embed hostility in the governance. And that's how That's how prejudice, once connected in political machinery, starts being private uh uh stops being a private problem or private vice and becomes a public threat.

[00:08:07]And that's exactly the kind of dynamic the foundation of black Americans have had to historically confront with with white folk and white supremacy. Now, there's another situation that arose here.

[00:08:18]Um you know, just so you know, these don't dynamics show when people move from attitudes to institutions. So, let's go a step forward. What happens when these people use their college degrees and their position and they take over institutions?

[00:08:35]So, we can fast forward and look at look at the Houston Community College.

[00:08:39]You're There was a lawsuit filed against them in 2020 originally.

[00:08:43]Uh on behalf of hundreds of current and former black employees uh who basically said that, you know, not that it wasn't just about them receiving rude treatment or some isolated bias, but but it was a well-developed, systematic, entrenched uh and very successful campaign of race discrimination against top-level black employees. This is HCC. HCC stands for Houston Community College. So, this is right here in H-Town.

[00:09:13]All right. Now, according to the report, the lawsuit claimed that the chancellor, whose name is Cesar Maldonado or Cesar Maldonado, he took over 90% of the long-time black professionals, they were fired or demoted.

[00:09:29]They've been there for years, and they got fired and demoted. And guess what he did who he replaced them with? He replaced them with Hispanics.

[00:09:36]And their promotions increased by 50%.

[00:09:39]So, the suit also alleges that while 90% of the tenured and experienced black employees have been displaced, only 10% of the similarly tenured white employees have been displaced.

[00:09:50]And those are those are the kinds of numbers that plaintiffs used used to argue a pattern. And it's not an accident. And the plaintiffs didn't stop at those broad statistics. They laid out what they said were the tactics used to produce those outcomes. Now, according to the lawsuit, as quoted by uh the black folks, the tactics including padding black employees personnel files with false complaints, you know, they do that.

[00:10:18]Right? Just making up stuff to get, you know, try to get you out of there. So, those complaints could later be used uh as a pretext for firing them. Believing complaints against black employees were more readily uh um more readily than complaints made by black employees. You understand what I'm saying? Telling one black male employee that a white woman's word was more truthful than his. That's what they literally said.

[00:10:44]And and and using the language transformation as a cover for getting rid of black employees and enforcing black employees to take leave of absence without cause. And then they later used those same leaves as grounds for termination. You forced me to leave take a leave of absence and then you fire me when I'm leave when I on leave? That's crazy. Or later on.

[00:11:04]You see?

[00:11:05]And so, that's the type of discrimination they they they they they used um wasn't just random or emotional. They used procedure. They used built-in paperwork.

[00:11:16]They used HR processes. They used management management decisions.

[00:11:20]And uh they also practiced retaliation, right? Tied to grants uh oversight. Uh there was this one lady, her name was Zelia Brown, and she served as HCC's grant um manager, right? Uh and compliance manager, and she claimed they retaliated against her. They excluded her from her job duties and placed her on administrative leave after reporting she had mismanaged grant money, including 500,000 in Hurricane Harvey uh disaster which she said she didn't do, and there's no proof she did it.

[00:11:54]Another thing they did was um there was a there was a long email chain.

[00:12:00]You understand? Not only did they have a broad uh uh uh uh hostile work environment, but they literally said that, you know, now we are the Hispanics, and we are in charge.

[00:12:14]I mean, this is in the email chain.

[00:12:16]Right? He said, "Now we Hispanic people are going to receive preferential treatment." That's literally what it said. I mean, how stupid can you be?

[00:12:24]But um this is another example of what the So, they're getting sued for $100 million.

[00:12:28]And so, when you ask you know, when you get These are shady tactics that these people are using, right? And this is what they do when they take over. So, again, the question is what happens when Latinos gain power over black Americans?