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Former Trump University students say their school duped them into paying as much as $35,000 for its real estate seminars. So they sued and the case is currently in court. You probably know what happened next. Last week, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump went after the judge presiding over the civil fraud lawsuits\u2014because of his ethnicity. \u201cHe's Mexican. We're building a wall between here and Mexico,\u201d said Trump, who claimed that the Indiana-born US District Judge Gonzalo Curiel faced an \u201cabsolute conflict,\u201d in ruling on the billionaire\u2019s case. Trump\u2019s words were the \u201ctextbook definition of a racist comment,\u201d said GOP Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Trump has since suggested that his remarks were \u201cmisconstrued.\u201d Trump\u2019s words were wrong, but it\u2019s also incorrect to think that someone can do their jobs without their ethnic background coming into play, said Gabriel Salguero, the founder and president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, who joined Quick to Listen this week. \u201cGod\u2019s sovereign will places us into the context into which we\u2019re born,\u201d said Salguero. \u201cDoes that impact how we see the world? Of course it does! The Christian shouldn\u2019t see diversity as a deficit but as a gift.\u201d One reason why we often see others as threats: fears of limited resources, says Alma Zaragoza-Petty, the daughter of Mexican immigrants. who recently completed her Ph.D in educational policy and social context at UC Irvine and who also came on\xa0Quick to Listen. But \u201cGod\u2019s love is abundant,\u201d said Zaragoza-Petty. Zaragoza-Petty and Salguero joined Morgan and Katelyn on Quick to Listen this week to talk about whether a person\u2019s ethnicity should affect how their work and who decides who gets to be an America. (6:50) Are there times when our ethnic background actually should or can influence the way we do our jobs? (14:50) How do we determine who is an American, and who gets to decide that? (23:20) How have you seen fears of scarcity of resources in your own community and how have you responded to it?\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices