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Andrew Valezquez We have an administrator that's committed to engaging communities.
We have an admininstrator that recognizes the need of engaging
diverse communities - so that way, all of our nation's communities are
prepared to confront the threats that they face, so that's critical.
So we're going to need your help - we're going to need your support.
Craig Fugate And so this tendency again to stereotype communities -
based upon your outside impressions, really gets to the heart of what
we're trying to do here today
- and that is quit planning for what I call easy and plan for real.
Plan for the communities we are part of and live in
and recognize and embrace the differences in the cultures
that are there - verses trying to make everything fit the straight and narrow
easy way of doing things.
And so we know one thing for sure - that we cannot do this alone.
Mr. Velazquez This is something that will take on a collaborative effort,
among all levels of government,
working closely with all of you in the private sector, in the
business community and community organizations.
All of us working together to accomplish this very important
mission.
And I want you to know that FEMA is truly committed to working
with the largest growing sector in the American population and that is the
Latino community - all of you know that.
And so, we have a huge responsibility here - to make sure that we're doing
all that we can to protect the communities that we all live in
and the people that we all serve.
Mr. Fugate And here's one of the interesting things about how people have biases.
The tendency was because they were doing it, they were
predominately a hispanic firm, doing hispaninc advertising,
it would only be good for hispanic populations.
Wrong.
They were so good, we asked them
"could you do these in English?"
Again this bias to think that you can only go one way,
or the ideas can only originate in one way and then you have to adapt
something else forgets that sometimes -
a lot of times more than sometimes -
it's actually going back and forth.
Because when you really get down to it, what's this all about?
It's about our families -
it's about our neighborhoods -
it's about our communities.
And unfortunately, disasters strike all of us.