Abe Torres on the Juice Unlocked podcast: race is no excuse, the limits are in your head

Do some people use race as an excuse? Abe Torres (@abe.torres.17) thinks so. In a Juice Unlocked podcast clip posted Feb. 12, 2026, the Mexico-born guest said the belief that you can't make it because of where you come from is all lies.

The real limits, he argued, are in your head.

"Not at all, bro"

When the host followed up and asked whether he really thinks no one has limitations, no matter their race, Torres answered, "No, not at all." Then he ran down the list. "It doesn't matter if you're white, Black, Asian, Hispanic. You can do it," he said.

His reasoning: whatever goal feels out of reach, someone has already pulled it off. He backed that up with a line he credited to Nelson Mandela, paraphrasing it as everything being impossible until someone does it.

Making his point, Torres said he regularly calls himself a slur often aimed at Mexican immigrants. Near the end of the clip he says he is originally from Mexico, and the caption notes he was born there.

“It doesn't matter if you're white, Black, Asian, Hispanic. You can do it.”

Your turn

The original post drew 41 comments. Juice Unlocked put the question to its followers: agree or disagree?

“There has been a person who has done whatever you think it is.”