Welcome to the 4Ward Miami Show. For those of you that don’t know what 4Ward Miami is, we’re a local nonprofit and we specialize with diversity and inclusion issues. I’m your host. My name is Damian Pardo, and to my left is JC.

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My name is Damian Pardo. I’m a board member of Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. I’m the chair of 4Ward Miami, which is an organization that specializes in diversity and inclusion. We just got an opportunity to do this show here at Miami Community News, so it’s thanks to their graciousness and their sponsoring of this concept. We decided to just start bringing people on and talking a little bit about this polarization.

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Why we’re looking at the exact same events and we’re seeing them completely differently. I always say you can see that half a water glass full or half empty. It depends how you’re looking at that. Sometimes I feel like half the room is chanting half full, half full, half full. The other half is half empty, half. They’re both right, and that’s the interesting thing about all of this.

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It isn’t about being right or wrong, it’s about being together or divided. The more we choose to keep focusing on these things, which in the end really don’t matter, the more divided we are. Climate matters. Good paying jobs matter. These are long-term sustainable values that we should have as a community because it’s not sustainable to keep treating our development and our surroundings the way we’ve been treating it.

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In the end, what really does matter? The quality of our life, and our children’s life. And our community’s life. We’ll see you next Friday.

Thank you guys.

We’ll see you next Friday. Thank you for watching. We enjoyed it. We hope you did too.