David James Gonzalez
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540 appearances
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2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
David James Gonzalez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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By this point, I'm kind of pursuing my second career, which I'm now in, academia.
And I went back to school.
I was commuting from Chula Vista to UC San Diego and actually working out in the eastern part of the county too.
So in my commute, the day after Obama's election, I'm driving around and I see someone's car.
And it has a homemade sign, right?
Taken an eight and a half by 11 piece of paper and wrote in color, used Obama's name as an acronym.
And that acronym was One Big Ass Mistake America.
Right?
And when I saw that, and it's just, it's struck with me ever since because when I saw that, I thought, oh, wow, wow.
Maybe this isn't going to go how we think it's going to go.
Right.
Maybe America isn't fully ready to turn a page on its past and its close proximity and attachment to white supremacy.
Right.
And its cultural symbols.
Right.
And so with that, one thing your book really does a phenomenal job, it's always done a phenomenal job pointing out, is how these ideas from the fringe, because that's where, again, I mean, just...
when the book came out, it was just, it was crazy.
It was crazy to think, you know, a lot of this rhetoric, you know, it was, it was the super fringe and you, you pointed those out, the, you know, the Buchanans of the world, the Samuel Huntington's in Samuel Huntington.
I mean, you know, an academic and Harvard, right.
That, you know, but these people were very fringe saying that Latinos or immigrants poison the blood.
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