He was waiting to board a flight.<\/p>\n
An older Latino man, he had opted to go casual: a sweatshirt, jeans and a baseball cap, rather than his usual suit.<\/p>\n
After the gate agent announced, \u201cNow boarding first-class passengers,\u201d he moved to join the line.<\/p>\n
\u201cSir, are you even first class?\u201d a woman to his right asked.<\/p>\n
He tried to explain that he was a first-class passenger, but the woman ordered him to get to the back of the line. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe announcement was made in English,\u201d she shouted as he made his way to the back of the line. \u201cWe speak English in America.\u201d<\/p>\n
He later passed the woman seated on the plane as he made his way aboard. <\/p>\n
He took off his cap and introduced himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMa\u2019am, my name is John Qui\u00f1ones, and I host a TV show called \u2018What Would You Do?,\u2019 and you would be just perfect for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Qui\u00f1ones shared this story Tuesday, Oct. 6, in the Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center. The event was hosted by TCU\u2019s Human Resources, the Center for Connection Culture, and TCU\u2019s College of Education in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month.<\/p>\n
Emmy Award-winning journalist John Qui\u00f1ones has worked in national television for over 40 years. Whether working as an ABC News correspondent or the host of a nationally acclaimed social-experiment TV show, Qui\u00f1ones has graced the screens of Americans for decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, his beginnings were far from ABC\u2019s headquarters in New York.<\/p>\n
Qui\u00f1ones was born into a low-income migrant family in San Antonio. Spanish was his first language, and he did not learn English until he was 6 years old.<\/p>\n
In the summertime, Qui\u00f1ones and his family would travel to Ohio to pick tomatoes, and then to Michigan to pick cherries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was there, in those fields, that he learned the importance of hard work and perseverance. By age 13, he had decided what he wanted to do with his life: become a journalist.<\/p>\n
Qui\u00f1ones joined his high school newspaper to improve his reporting skills and auditioned for \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d to practice his public speaking.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For college, Qui\u00f1ones attended St. Mary\u2019s University in San Antonio, where he studied speech communication. He then received his master\u2019s degree in journalism from Columbia University.<\/p>\n
After college, he moved to Chicago to work for CBS as a general assignment reporter before taking a job with ABC.<\/p>\n
In his speech, Qui\u00f1ones recounted advice he received in the early years of his reporting career.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t concern yourself with the movers and the shakers of the world,\u201d his boss said. \u201cFocus on the moved and the shaken.\u201d<\/p>\n
The advice stayed with Qui\u00f1ones and later inspired him to create the show, \u201cWhat Would You Do?\u201d<\/p>\n
First airing in 2008, \u201cWhat Would You Do?\u201d is a social experimental show that \u201cholds a mirror\u201d to American society.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The show reenacts real-world scenarios and uses hidden cameras to see how everyday Americans would react in certain situations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As Qui\u00f1ones recalled the airport encounter, the story took an unexpected turn. When he made his way to the back of the boarding line, the man standing in front of him asked, \u201cJohn, is this a \u2018what would you do\u2019 scenario?\u201d<\/p>\n
Because in truth, every moment can be a \u201cwhat would you do\u201d scenario; it just depends on how people choose to respond.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was waiting to board a flight. An older Latino man, he had opted to go casual: a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-477262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}