Eye on the Triangle

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Good morning everyone. Hope you're enjoying your day. My name is Emilia Rivadeneira, host of Eye on the Triangle. And with further ado, let's get into some news. You

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Hey everyone, welcome to the Nubian Minute. Your go to podcast for breaking down headlines that impact black students, minority communities at NC State and around the world. I'm Julia Cox, a writer for the Nubian message. I'm Aiyanna, also a writer for the Nubian message. I'm Jonathan, a writing and photography correspondent for the Nubian message, and I'm Blake, a writing correspondent for the Nubian message. So I wanted to start off this episode talking about the whole controversy with Coca Cola that's happened recently. Have you guys heard about that? No. So there has been allegedly rumors that Coca Cola has reported their own immigrant workers to ICE,

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yeah. What? Yeah. That is crazy. And so there's massive backlash about this, because obviously people are having issues with this, like, why would you report your own workers, nonetheless, anyone? Um, but, I mean, how do you guys feel about that?

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That's insane to me. Um, because why? I don't know. It's just, like, why? That makes no sense. Is this like nationwide? Is it just, I don't

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know if it's nationwide, they're like, there's no open public apology or anything, like Coca Cola hasn't said anything to acknowledge this.

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Yeah, that's insane. I feel

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like it's very unnecessary. I feel like it borders on exploitation. Because why? You

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know, do you guys think this is a trend that we could see in other corporations as well, or do you think it's more of a one off rumor? I

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think it's a trend that we'll see like especially with President Trump and being very strong armed about immigrant immigration and people who are undocumented. It'll probably be a lot of other corporations who exploited immigrant workers or workers who were undocumented here, and they're now going to try and fire those workers or claim that they never had association with them, just to protect themselves from the Trump administration going in and then getting rid of these workers. And then all these workers say, Oh, I worked for this company for however long, so it's just them covering themselves,

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right? Not even for just corporations. But I saw this weird tweet recently, and it was a teacher. I don't know where he worked, but he had, like, added ice and said, there's an immigrant student in my class that doesn't speak English come to this school, which is insane. Yeah, kids aren't even safe in school now, right?

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Yeah, that's way too much, because I get the whole wanting to have safe borders and everything, but like, we all the way lost the plot with it at this point. Like it's not that serious.

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I saw another video of this man, he owned a farm, some type of, like animal, you know, care for food, um, business. And he was talking about his political beliefs and how he was, like, against he was anti immigration, and voted against it, and all that stuff. But he was like, I think around half of my workers are immigrants who are undocumented. And he, like, admitted that, and the man who was interviewing him was like, Do you think that's gonna affect you at all? Like, are you concerned about your business? And it was just complete cognitive dissonance, like he didn't acknowledge that at all? He was like, No, I don't think so.

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And then you lose all your workers. Now what?

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And going off of that topic, also with the change in legislation. Have you guys seen the information about Guantanamo Bay in regards to undocumented immigration. Have you guys heard of Guantanamo Bay? Are you familiar with it? Yeah, yeah. So, like, it's a very intense prison, you know, and Trump is trying to put people who do not have proper documentation. In that prison for just not having proper documentation in the country.

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I know Guantanamo Bay should have been shut down. Yeah, yeah. I hear stories about it, and in my opinion, nobody should be sent there period, but definitely, definitely not for you said, not having documentation, right? Yeah, yeah, because it's giving concentration camp.

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I think that's an unprecedented approach to dealing with people who are here undocumented, because these people are usually trying to escape a country that's where they're facing persecution, or there just isn't any opportunity for the quality of life that we have here in America. So sending these people to prison is not helpful. We should develop programs to help them stay here or return them to their country with things that will help them attain a better life than what they currently had or we're sustaining. Yeah,

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I think that's even one of those things, of like, even if you consider it a crime, the punishment doesn't fit the crime at all. Sending somebody to one of the worst prisons in America, not only now, but historically, like Guantanamo Bay should have been shut down just for being undocumented, is crazy.

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And reportedly, according to ProPublica, they've already identified a dozen individuals who have been flown to Guantanamo Bay purely for their immigration status.

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It's crazy. That's gotta be illegal, isn't it? I

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mean, there's a lot of should be things that have been happening that I think should have been illegal, but,

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yeah, I will add. So I read this article from routers, and it says that the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, which is in Cuba that we have been talking about here, already houses a migrant facility separate from the high security us person for foreign terrorism suspect, and this facility actually has been used on occasion for decades, including to hold Haitians and Cubans picked up at sea. So, yeah. I mean, I agree this is, this is kind of crazy that it is happening again to, like, Hold immigrants. But yeah, it has happened before and and, yeah, it is something that we'll definitely have to, like, keep, like, looking in the news and like, see what's like going on with that. But, yeah, so kind of like changing more to the subject, like, closer to home, closer to NC State. What do you guys think about, like, housing and like, just like classes, increasingly, like growing every year. And like, Have you guys heard that they want to, like, tear down bregard and Sullivan allegedly? Yeah,

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I think that's going to be really hard to navigate as a student. Like, it's still technically my first year, but I had a lot of transfer credits, so the housing that I had to apply for today, it was a whole thing. Fortunately, I was able to secure housing. But it really isn't like that for everyone. And when you keep adding more people into the class size, and you're prioritizing the freshmen and those with less credits, you know, people who have been here already are getting fewer and fewer chances to be able to reliably secure housing.

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I think it's especially unfair to people who can't necessarily afford off campus housing, because especially in the Raleigh area, most of the housing places, they don't want you to have a short term lease, they want you here the entire year, and they want you to be able to pay on time. So that's really unfair. So especially the out of state students who don't want to necessarily stay here during the summer, or even just students who really just can't afford to live off campus,

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I'd agree, yeah,

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that seems kind of backwards to me. I don't live on campus and I don't plan on living on campus, but it seems kind of weird that we don't just expand and maybe build more housing, buildings and parking to accommodate everyone. That's what I feel like would help, right?

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Yeah, I agree. It's kind of backwards, because a lot of people crashing out right now because they don't have housing, and it's like our first year. So not having housing as a second semester freshman is kind of crazy.

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Yeah, yeah, I spent lunch like with all my friends. Some of us got wool village, and some of us have to pick tomorrow and plan on transferring to UNCC if they don't get the. Housing that they want. And

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speaking of the housing is not aligning with the amount of parking that they give out. We have an overflow of cars and students trying to get onto campus, especially on centennial, and they have this overflow section, but it's about a 10 minute walk away from the dorms, actually, no, it's about 25 minutes now I think about it. And whenever we have, like production night and events that we have to stay out late for and walk back from from the overflow, it's only a woods, so it's like a sidewalk next to no street lights. I don't know why the street lights on campus are so bad, but, like, it's just like, really dark and and it's pretty dangerous, especially if you're a girl alone at night. And I think that overall increasing in the student population without increasing in parking spots in like convenient areas that are safe and well lit, is important, and they need to do better with that, because a lot of people are getting parking passes, but then have nowhere to park. So that's ridiculous. And on a lighter note, I think we should talk about someone's review of what was the album.

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I was called above by mad season. It's a somewhat of a super group with artists from a lot of Seattle grunge bands, especially Allison change, with Link say, their lead singer and Mike McCready, the lead guitarist from

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Pearl Jam. What made you want to review that album? Um,

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it's personally one of my favorite albums, and I feel like it's underrepresented and talked about in the rock and especially the grunge scene. It's very emotional, and especially with how many of them, many of their lives ended, and the things that they discussed throughout the album, it was almost kind of foretelling the future that would lie for them. Unfortunately,

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is there anything that spoke to you in particular? Um,

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no, not to me personally, but it's just kind of the different topics and how dark and deep they were. You just really hear your name's voice,

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and what would you give it? One out of 10 for a rating like, would you recommend it to others to listen to?

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I would recommend it to anybody. I think it's a worthwhile listen.

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Ciao, please. Help you

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am this has been your host, Emilia Rivadeneira, thanks for listening to Eye on the Triangle for back episodes of the show. Go to wknc.org/podcasts.

Music in today's episode is "Krakatoa" by Noah Stark, licensed under Creative Commons.

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