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Rob Torres

@zorratowers.com

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Lumbee/Boricua. Seeking and working towards a world in which we live the truth that we are all related - every person, animal and fellow denizen of this earth and universe.

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Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 54m

not due to some inherent limitations that society told them they had. In seeing them as people instead of the self-fulfilling prophecy that society writes on poor kids knowingly and unknowingly, he inspired 20 years of young students to work hard and master complicated math subjects.

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 55m

Hispanic Heritage Month Day 27
Ganas, he told his students they needed, inspiring the film Stand and Deliver. Jaime Escalante was a Bolivian born teacher who cared for his students, mentored his students and showed them that they were poor because of circumstances and

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 1h

You can decide to live in someone else's script that tells you about a "reality" not there or you can work with others to guide your ship via facts to find truth.

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · Nov 19

Better Way to Be in the World Page 11
Seek evidence based truth, adjust your assumptions, admit when you're wrong, repeat

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 1d

They don't vote the same. In the simplistic way they try to represent the group with a tag, like in all other cases with other groups that are so tagged, they are so much more and varied than that common tag. Try to learn more about the beauty in the diversity of the actual people behind the tag.

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 1d

different Native tribes, descendants of slaves brought over from Africa, people who came from the Iberian peninsula, and more recent immigrants from around the world. They have different dialects of Spanish. They have different cultural variants including music and food.

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 1d

Hispanic Heritage Month Day 26
More modern times and the press use the term Latino, Hispanic, or LatinX as if it is one homogeneous group. People who identify in these groups indeed have the same root in a common colonial start but otherwise represent a mix of a number of

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 1d

And in times of turmoil it is not just more critical to express gratitude but also to come to terms with what is really important vs superfluous in your life (your true needs).

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · Nov 18

Better Way to Be in the World Page 10
Express Gratitude for all that you do have

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 1d

Representation Matters and generations have benefitted from their roles on the street.

Thank you Sonia and thank you Emilio.

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 1d

Hispanic Heritage Month Day 25
In times when accurate representation of Latinos/Hispanics was rare, we got to see ourselves in Maria and Luis on Sesame Street. We heard not just Spanish, but types of food, a concept of culture, and an.idea that we also belonged.

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 1d

Make the better choice

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · Nov 18

Better Way to Be in the World 9 Seek Peace...there is not a binary choice between two warring sides, but there is a choice between war and peace

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 2d

The land remembers. The water remembers. The wind carries our names. And as long as we breathe, we will keep telling the whole story — the one that begins not with discovery, but with belonging.

—Kanipawit Maskwa

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 2d

We must keep speaking our languages, planting our medicines, walking softly on the land that still remembers us.

So I say this: we will not disappear because a proclamation forgets us. We were here before Columbus, and we will be here long after the politicians are gone.

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 2d

Today, when the government once again chooses to remember the colonizer and forget the Indigenous, it is not surprising — it is just a reminder that our work is not done. We must keep teaching the children who they are.

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 2d

I do not speak these things to divide us. I speak them because truth must be spoken if there is ever to be peace. We do not need to hate Columbus to honor our own story. But we must not let his name stand above the countless ancestors who greeted him with open hands and were repaid with chains.

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 2d

It forgets the women and children who suffered, the languages silenced, the songs that were not allowed to be sung. It forgets that this so-called discovery began a long night for our peoples, one we are still waking from.

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 2d

the four-legged, the winged, the swimmers, the crawlers, and the human beings.

When I was young, the old ones told us that stories are medicine, but they can also be poison if told without humility. This proclamation feels like that — words dressed in honor but carrying harm.

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 2d

the meaning of kinship. A true leader does not fear truth. A true leader does not need to erase others to stand tall. Our ancestors taught that greatness is not measured by how far you travel or how many lands you claim, but by how well you remember your relatives — all your relatives —

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 2d

To call him a hero, and to erase the names of the ones who were here, is to speak only half a story — and half-stories have always been dangerous things.

When the leaders of a nation use their power to lift up conquest and silence the survivors, it tells me they have not yet learned

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 2d

Our people have lived on this land since long before that man ever dreamed of crossing the ocean. The rivers already had names. The stars already had songs. The people already knew the Creator.

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 2d

From Standing Bear Network:
When I hear words like “Columbus, the original American hero,” I feel a heaviness in my chest — not because I am angry, but because I know how stories can wound when they are told without truth.

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 3d

around the US are still fighting for today: self-determination, equity, women's rights, no oppression of rights in foreign countries, and being upset when the use of the military and capitalism is taken too far.
Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre!
Que Viva La Raza!

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 3d

Hispanic Heritage Month Day 24
Out of Chicago and inspired by the Black Panthers, the Young Lords in the 1960s organized community action. While you or even I may not agree with every point in their 13 point platform and program, many of the points are still relevant to what people in Chicago and

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 3d

In this push for a post truth world, seek and speak and reconcile Truth

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · Nov 19

Better Way to Be in the World Page 11
Seek evidence based truth, adjust your assumptions, admit when you're wrong, repeat

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 3d

"It was actually a vast cultivated landscape carefully tended by the Indigenous peoples living there. They understood that human beings are a keystone species on whom many others depend."

Rob Torres @zorratowers.com · 3d

Bioneers: Seeing the forest for the trees
"When the Europeans first came to Turtle Island, they thought they’d found a luxuriantly fertile and abundant wilderness where numerous Indians living there were simply living freely off the fat of the land. The newcomers couldn’t have been more wrong."