the boyle heights running club started as a safety-in-numbers project.rted running the bridges of boyle heights, making their presence known and simply by being there, by being a presence, taking their streets back from the gangs and the criminals who too often are the default company in a one company neighborhood. ♪ >> anthony: tacos indiana street cart on 4th and clarence st. what are you guys having? >> elisa: i'm going to do asada. >> rolando cruz: you're going to do asada? >> anthony: frequented by elisa and fellow running club member rolie cruz. carne asada, the slow-grilled marinated beef classic served as a burrito with rice and beans, or simply on a tortilla as a taco. tacos lengua, beef tongue braised with garlic and onions. and tacos el pastor, stacked guajillo chile-rubbed pork shoulder sliced with your choice of toppings. cheap, yet supremely satisfying sweet taco trucks like this one has served the latino community of boyle heights well for years. but the neighborhood is changing. let's say diversifying. >> anthony: you know, first comes th

to is from a 1939 adderall housing agency report for the neighborhood -- for a neighborhood in boyle heights in los angeles. agency comes in and decides to redline the district and make it unfit for federal loans on the grounds of it being "hopelessly heterogeneous." it seems to me that poses the challenge for us. thatterogeneous -- is hopeless, or can we get along? hopeless, or can we get along? is there a path to the future that gives us guidance to a more hopeful community. i think western history, while it is filled with stories that suggest the hopelessness of eitiy and the conflicts that have been engaged because of diversity, i think western history gives us stories in which people do find ways to overcome their differences, to speak to people and have productive conversations with people with whom they happen at odds. of those things fall apart and i do not want to come back a story where- everyone sat around the campfire singing together. it seems to me that there are stories from the western american past that give us hope and stories in the american president that give us hope. to

the quotes i come back to is from a 1939 federal housing agency report from the neighborhood of boyle heights in east los angeles which was one of the most heterogeneous diverse neighborhoods in the world really in terms of the diversity of people living there. the federal agency basically comes in and has to redline the district to make it unfit for federal loans on the ground of it being hopelessly heterogeneous, hopelessly heterogeneous, that poses the challenge for us. is heterogeneous hopeless or, can we get along, is there a past in a future that gives us guidance to a more hopeful heterogeneity. i think western history, while filled with stories that suggest the hopelessness of heterogeneity that suggests the conflicts of western history, it gives us the stories where people do overcome their differences and give stories about this and to talk to people and conduct conversations with people who they've been fundamentally at odds. . when things fall apart, i don't want to come back to a kumbaya story here in which everyone got along, the campfire singing together or something, that's no