He was born and grew up while the Bronx was burning. My mom was born in a very, very poor and rural area in Puerto Rico. Even when the Bronx was burning … A lot of [local politicians in the Bronx] were getting arrested for [corruption]. … sometimes with families inside in order to recoup insurance costs and because the property values were going down, because black and brown families were moving into the neighborhood and Robert Moses was building the Cross Bronx Expressway. (01:20–01:22)
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Asserts that many local politicians in the Bronx were arrested for corruption.
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