you know, some great mentors-- yolanda garcia from... the founder of we stay/ nos quedamos, who, you know, looks at me, you know, as sort of like a new... part of the... a new generation, and it was just like i was going to be one of the leaders in it, whether or not i wanted to be. ( laughing ) she was... ooh, it was incredible. and i was incredibly shy; i didn'want to talk in frt of pele, d she s just like, "you need to spe froyour heart, because this is your community," and i'll never forget that for as long as i live. >> hinojosa: when you, you know, at that point, when you're trying to get your community active and you're seeing that there's a lot of apathy-- it's a predominantly african-american and latino community... >> yeah. >> hinojosa: ...you know, people have thiquestion, "well, do the folks who live there... do they get it?" i mean, there's... on the one hand, they're like, "look, this is just who we are; we're going to continue to be dumped on, there's nothing we can do"... >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: and then there's almost a sense of, "they don't get it; they don't unders