Rebel Diaz’s Rodrigo “RodStarz” Venegas questions Ted Cruz about his anti-immigrant stance and environmental racism.
During a meeting between Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr., and Bronx ministers, RodStarz of Rebel Diaz presented Cruz with questions on his anti-immigrant stance.
“Senator Cruz, why do you come to the Bronx, an immigrant community, with such an anti-immigrant stance,” RodStarz asked as Ted Cruz entered a restaurant in the Bronx, this week.
In response, Cruz offered a swift and vague response, stating “We’re a country of immigrants, sir.”
Prior to Cruz’s arrival, RodStarz, who was at the event as a rep for the news outlet TeleSur, also confronted Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr. on his decision to welcome Cruz to the Bronx.
“Why do you bring a guy that doesn’t support climate change? That says climate change doesn’t exist,” the Rebel Diaz member said. “When we’re on the front lines of environmental racism. You talk about a community of immigrants. Why are you bringing someone with the strongest anti-immigrant stance…Why are you bringing someone who’s anti-immigrant into an immigrant community?”
Senator Diaz simply responded by asking who invited the rapper to the meeting.
Cruz’s visit to the Bronx was unsurprisingly short-lived. A visit to the Lighthouse Charter School in the New York City borough was canceled upon receiving word that students were organizing a walk-out.
Video of RodStarz confronting Ted Cruz, can be found below.
Hahaha another L for ted cruz sorry man but when you cant even debate a rapper you sure as hell arent getting far in congress dipshit
I am for complete open borders and more immigration, but empathize with the Republican position to reduce violent theft through the violent Welfare/Police/Warfare State. Statistically immigrants, illegal or otherwise, have higher rates of consuming the government’s stolen welfare dollars and voting for politicians that promise more stolen welfare dollars. Which is understandable, it is rational for poor people to pursue acquiring resources, it just is unethical to acquire resources through theft. In a Welfare State with democracy, the more people that participate in elections who take stolen government money and vote for politicians that promise more stealing(taxation), the more the productive class (les industreux) must be victims to the government parasite class.
However I think more immigration to this end is a good/bad thing, on the positive outlook it will crash the entire system and bankrupt the State. The negative perspective is the poverty and oppression the State brings to the society when they are running out of stolen money and are bankrupted.
how about building a wall and kicking all able bodied person off welfare…..you are for bankrupting the state…why?
Read up on the ideologies of various groups across the country. Start with the Nation of Islam. There is a very sizeable fifth column in the United States, and their goal is it’s destruction.
i hope america gonna have the worst president ever. stupid country which starts war conflict around da world. i pray for destruction of that eveil nation build on slavery.
Are you kidding me?! We already have the worst president in the history of the USA.
great video but volume so low. damn
hip hop wack x what happened to volumw
jeez. peep the face of ruben diaz when dude was asking ted cruz that question. he was like this little nigga is fucking up my money!! hahahaha!
Wow. Salute to these gentlemen.
Hip Hop has many arms and an infinitely wide spectrum of interests, from party music, to political action, just to name a couple.
I’m incredibly proud that these men took it upon themselves to stand up for what they believe in and backed it with verifiable facts.
Regardless of your stance you may not agree but you have to respect it. Very very few artists will go to such lengths. Hip Hop isn’t just about music, it’s a culture, a culture that has permeated nearly every fabric of American society and an art form the entire world is aware of. This is only the beginning. The people are fed up.
As much flack as HHDX, Danielle, Justin, et. al. receive you guys have moments of incredibly redeeming qualities, please keep it up and you’ll see your comments section (which we all know is extremely important) start to reflect the consistency of the ill community at AHH. Kudos.
@nightwalker If human ethics are logically valid, objective, and universalized to all moral actors in any way, it is unethical/criminal for any person to initiate force/violence or issues threats thereof against any other person [aggression], whereas it is ethical for any person to defend themselves utilizing force/violence to counteract these types of aggressive acts/threats [self-defense] (Non Aggression Principle). The government is a corporation that monopolizes security services (among other consumer/capital goods). Security services would be defined as an extension of an individual outsourcing ethical self-defense to a third party through a voluntary economic transaction. The classical liberal view (Hobbes, Locke, Smith, etc) would be that the government is formed to provide said security services and defend its consumers. However that view is logically contradictory due to the state itself being founded on aggression. The unethical initiation of force/violence to enforce its monopoly, including the collection of fees for services with threats/acts of violence (taxation). It would be the equivalent of your local restaurant, bank, retail store, or other vendor you interact with declared itself or were elected to be a monopoly and then threatened to kidnap you and lock you in a cage with violent criminals if you would prefer to get goods/services from a competing firm. Note: if your local restaurant, retail store, or bank employee representing said monopoly wears blue with badges or camouflaged suits or black robes, it unfortunately does nothing to change the ethical reality of the immoral foundation of their business model.
This is the logically consistent theory, now does the theory reflect reality empirically? Let’s see. Look at the amount of people are not getting educated in the poor quality, expensive government schools with quality life/job skills, look at the break down of the nuclear family, look at the economic decay, look at the institutional racism, police brutality, the war on drugs, the 2 million people locked in prison system, radical inflationary monetary policy at the central bank monopoly debasing the currency, a national housing crisis due to purposefully bailing out the real estate market keeping housing artificially expensive, the socialist war on American businesses, the endless, unnecessary wars in the Middle East and imperial military bases all around the globe, the healthcare crisis we have had for over 100 years due to the AMA physicians trade union licensing/education monopoly (to boost their incomes to 6 figures and insurance corporation subsidies, bank bailouts, all the way down to insanely expensive and time consuming interactions with DMV bureaucrats.
So yes, if this wealthy, $3 trillion dollar monopoly-corporation goes bankrupt or any other State monopolies founded on the same business principles around the world, that would be great, although I would still regret the way they surely will act afterwards as we have seen in other countries where this has happened recently (e.g. Greece, Venezuela).
Lol, and despite all the things you’ve listed above, why is it still better than most other places on the globe?
the idea that America is “better” is purely subjective. there are plenty of developed nations that have a better quality of life for the average citizen as well as developing nations that one could find more than adequate to live in.
LYING TED !! http://www .tedcruzisapussy. com/
And you don’t think Hilary is a liar? And Sanders is a liar? And anyone involved with politics is a liar????
who is Senator Diaz???
“Senator Diaz simply responded by asking who invited the rapper to the meeting.”
I’m so happy to see great men of color call out these bloodsucking politicians, especially republicans. The history of what they have done systematically to oppress the poor & people of color has to be stopped. As long as we keep speaking up & calling them out & voting democrat we can soon see change come. I pray for a day where racist white folk become the minority in this country because i know that’s the one thing they know is coming! #fucktedcruz #fuckdonaldtrump #voteordie #liberation
Man black People are the worse, they are the biggest sell out you can find anywhere in the world, as a black man and a minister how you bring Ted Cruz, to the Bronx this nigga do not like blacks and immigrant, the last time i check the Bronx is made up of just that 90% of the people up there are immigrant. I wonder how much money he got from bring him there, I give respect to them girls that said you bring him here we walk out of the school.
S/O to Rebel Diaz! Respect.
Ted will win
Senator Ted Cruz was NOT interesTed in helping the Bronx! He was only interesTed in helping himSELF!