WEBVTT - Afro Latinidad & Growing up in the LatinX generation 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:10.440 That was good was popping at your girl, Ama La Negra. 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:15.440 And you're listening to exactly a production of My Heart 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.440 Radio being many of me hands that those who said this, 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:22.400 this is exactly a matter MYNNW Weekly podcast where you 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:27.360 hear exactly what's the sing me a little sinapo holes, 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:31.040 no taboo, We're not squirrel over here. I'm gonna tell 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.560 you exactly how it is. And I am your host, 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:38.280 and here is my co host. And today I'm really 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:40.640 excited because we're gonna talk about something that really touches 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:44.680 my heart, which is La, which is talking about the 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:48.080 Afro Latino community. A lot of people I don't get 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.360 see a lot of people got to know me in 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:54.640 the American side, UM through love and hip hop, and 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.240 in this platform they heard me talk about, you know, 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.800 feeling like I didn't fit and feel like, you know, 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.640 the after Latino community didn't really have a voice UM 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:06.680 and a lot of people got to see me on 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.040 that side and got to see my work as an 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:13.560 activist during the protests that happened through George fo I 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:15.560 was the first one out there in the front line, 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:19.520 Bailey and not just poor lacoa Negra, but also put 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.920 La like myself, so it really touches home, and UM, 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.520 I wanted to dedicate this podcast to the people that 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.240 support me, to the people that feel that don't have 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.200 a voice, to all the Latinos out there, even if 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.040 you may not be directly after Latino, but you may 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:39.520 have that um, that cousin, that girlfriend, that boyfriend, that whatever. 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.200 I feel that overall, as Latinos, we are one community, 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:48.040 and the Alfro Latino community amongst us sometimes doesn't really 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.520 get represented properly. So there's a lot to talk about 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:56.000 this inside. Well, my question to you is, yes, this 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.920 is perfect because now we're here. Yes, a couple of 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.280 years later, be in your movement and you know, the 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.680 movement that you've been advocating. Now here's the thing. Do 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:09.000 you still feel like you need to explain the people 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:12.440 who you are? Of course, you know it's crazy enough 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.080 because I feel that it's one and I am still 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:19.680 consistently having to explain to people what being after Latino means. 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.480 I still have had people that don't believe that you 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.720 can be black and also be Latino and speak Spanish. 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.920 I still hear people, you know, speaking a lot, a 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.679 lot from a place of ignorance. Um, and I just 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.320 feel like you have social media, you have the Internet, 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.440 you have YouTube, you have all these other platforms where 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.480 if you don't know, you can just search it up. 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.520 You know, we've been here, we've we've we've been Here's 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.639 just that no one really spoke about it. Is like that, 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:50.000 you know, speaking of people speaking about you or talking 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.320 about you. Have you ever been to like your local 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:56.920 supermarket or wherever now you know, events, industry events or 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:02.079 any and people are are they old talking bad about you? 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.400 Like in Spinish? Probably know this happens all the time. 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.480 Can you give us like one because I think it's 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:11.919 I I find it like I'm using that when people 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.880 get it twisted and you have that moment after like 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.040 very very right. So it happens to me all the time. 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.200 It used to happen more before. But you know a 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.800 lot of people already know that I'm Latina, but before 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.400 and it still happens. But I'll have people talking about 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:29.960 me like look at her hair, look at this someone whatever, 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.320 and then I'll just be there just crankia and I 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:38.880 won't say anything until like me so and then but 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.520 I didn't know you spoke Spanish? Where are you from? 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.640 Does it matter you got exactly, doesn't matter that Latino 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.720 community is so diverse. We all look in so many 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:53.720 different shades here, styles, body types, features, everything, so see 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:55.680 and I know that it happens to a lot of 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.200 a lot of other after Latinos as well, where they're 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:02.960 you know, they find themselves being questioned where it's just 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.600 weird or or you get the famous what are you 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.280 mixed with? Who said that you have to be mixed 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.360 with any other race or culture or whatever in order 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:16.760 to be you know Latino like gas lighting? Totalizing? Oh 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:18.920 I like your hair? Like, how do you feel when 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.080 people tell you that? But med I think that. First 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:23.880 of all, I haven't been rocking my afro for a 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.040 while now ever since the pandemic, I just wanted to 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:27.839 change up. And I went through this you know life 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.159 experience where I've changed a lot, right, I've grown. I 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.880 still rock my afro and I love the texture of 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.320 my hair. And I've had this situation where people being 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.000 just pick your hands, you know, their hands in your 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.560 hair or like, oh my god, your hair is fluffy. 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.000 What do you do to where they pat me? I'm 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.560 like me, get your hands off my hair immediately. Um, 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:49.920 I don't think that a lot of people understand how 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.400 uncomfortable it is. You know, you're not an animal, you're 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.720 not a pet. Is nothing weird because I hate the terminology. 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.160 And let's talk about this real quick too. I think 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:02.840 that racism has been normalized so much amongst even the 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.920 Latino community, that you don't even know when you're being racist. 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:12.960 You know, there was a song Let's talk about my mom, 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:17.680 but like that was an actual song Mommy don't want 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:23.400 a black Latino but but I want my black life, 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.920 like and that song was, like, there's been so much 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:32.160 that was okay, Like, there's been so much racial I wouldn't. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.839 I don't know what exactly to call it, because I 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:40.839 just feel that it's been normalized. Come when you're being racist, okay, 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.080 And just because of that, I want this show to 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.159 not just be a way for me to vent and 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.040 express my own experiences, but I also want to be 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:55.080 able to educate people. But no, Saven, you don't know 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.640 when you're being racist. Let me give you a perfect example. 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:59.800 If you see a black woman or if you see 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:05.760 a black men, don't say I for being black. You're 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.320 very pretty Excuse me, what the hell does that mean? 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.640 So you're basically saying black people are ugly, but it 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.360 just so happens to be that I'm that one person 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:18.800 who looks decent. Don't say that. Here's another perfect example. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:23.200 I grew up my whole life saying hearing, oh um, 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:32.520 but when we Lina no like, you have really nice features, 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:39.080 don't mess it up. You know, getting married to I world, 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.359 you have to better her. They'll be like, you have 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.920 to better the race. So you're saying that my race 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.480 is not good. Then my race is bad. Then my 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.800 features are not good, my skin color is not good. 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.080 I have to better it by marrying or being with 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.440 someone who is have more European features so that my 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:59.560 children could be light skin. So if you didn't know 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.800 that saying that makes you racist, let me educate you. 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.920 You don't say that and like that. I've gone through 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.120 so many experiences, like even now, there's a lot of 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.120 after Latinos, there's a lot of black people who were bullied, 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:17.040 who were made made fun of for having you know, 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.920 big lips or having certain features which now have become 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.640 you know, trendy, and people paid for it. You know, 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.000 before it was all about the big boots and no 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.160 no ask with all due respect for those girls that 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.280 are naturally built like that, and then now women are 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:37.200 buying their butt because they're looking like us. I'm tell oh, 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.680 but I say when mona, which I've heard that a 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:43.240 lot of times, joe Ya Mona. They've called me mona 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.040 monkeys so many times in my life that I didn't 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.520 even realize that it was a bad thing. Was just 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.960 more like, you know, there goes another one when and 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.560 I feel too that I want to clarify that a 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.040 lot of people will never understand the experiences a black 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.280 person lives. Whether you're going love how they whether you 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:05.080 come from Europe, whether you come from Africa, whether you 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.000 come from Latin America, doesn't matter. If you are born 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.800 with this color skin, with this melanin that God gave us, 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.000 you will never understand the experiences that we've been through. 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:16.760 The way that people look at us, The way that 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.520 when you walk in the store, people are always looking 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.600 at you like you're gonna steal something. The way that 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.520 if you walk by someone, people automatically hold their purse 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:26.920 because they're scared you're gonna steal from them. The way 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.280 that people talk about two when whenever anybody wants to 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:35.760 say something negative. The first thing they say. People don't 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:39.080 understand how humiliating it is and how hurtful it is, 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:42.199 because we didn't choose to be born this way, nor 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.120 would I have wanted to change because I love being negative. 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.320 I love my skin color, I love who I am. 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.160 But I understood at a very early age that in 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.800 order to live in this world with my skin tone, 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.000 I was gonna have to work twice as hard. People 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:58.920 were always gonna look at me, you know, with a 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:00.960 certain you know, they were gonna look at me differently 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.920 just because I'm black, and a lot of people like, 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.079 but we're not racist. We don't understand, we don't see 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.760 if we have evolved a lot, No, we have it. No, 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:13.040 we have not, especially in the Latino community. I'm sorry 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.079 to say it, and I'm sorry to like pinpoint it, 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:23.000 but that we haven't been able to progress. We're the 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:28.640 someone and theos. We're the first ones to humiliate us. 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.959 We're the first ones that if your daughter brings ago 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.320 to the house, you're like, you don't get us, as 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.199 I don't want that, or what are you doing? Let's 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.800 be honest, Like we keep saying all between Latinos, we're 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.920 not I don't like to generalize, but there's a big 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.200 percentage of people that are and you will see it 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.840 to our faces. But behind behind closed doors, people have 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.320 feelings about us. So that has made it hard for 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.240 a lot of us to get jobs. It's made it 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.520 hard for a lot of us to be visibly like 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:02.080 for example, if they have to pick between someone who 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.280 is dark skin and someone who is light skined, who 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.600 both have let's say, who both can do the job, 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.480 you'll always go for the light skin because black people 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:16.080 come up as intimidating or scary or be careful or 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.960 da da. It's a lot of pressure that people don't 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.960 know about. No, it's absolutely right, because, um, I went 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.720 from my first job interview with my best friend he's 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.200 that for Latino, and they hired me right away and 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.480 they hire him. So I didn't take the job, you 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.280 know what I mean. And at that time, there's always like, oh, 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.360 don't think like that. You know, people always say, oh, 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.560 don't think like that, don't think that we knew, Yeah, 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.000 like you know, I don't know. I don't don't know. 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.840 He said that's crazy, and I said, but that's all 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.760 right because they lost that one. But too But look, 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:53.679 at this culturally that we know the soap operas are 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:58.040 big things for the Latino community. Novels is something that 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.560 has been with us for years. We used to watch 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:05.680 it with our grandparents La Mamma after work. It's like 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.360 a moment that you spend with your family. And I 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:12.240 remember growing up and watching TV and always wondering, why 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.200 doesn't anybody look like me. There was only two novelas 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.319 that I recall. One it was Chica La Silva and 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.440 it's the only reason why they were black people in Nuela. 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:26.560 It was because it was about slaves and about slaves battle. 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.160 They never at one point sell a Cruise, which I 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:30.800 love her and we'll talk about her in a second, 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:34.560 because they for life. She was also no novela and 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:38.160 she was that even got slapped and and it was 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.800 that was a moment in the history for the Latino 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:46.679 community that was so damaging and hurtful because the one 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.040 icon and idol that we have that we admire, she 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:54.120 is ours, the one opportunity that they give us to 0:11:54.280 --> 0:12:00.120 be on TV, and she's there Sea Cruise and the 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:10.040 Sea Eli Act Sprinci. It was so humiliating until this day, 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.960 how many nobelas or soap operas. There are things that 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:17.040 we see on big screen Latina. Do you see people 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.760 like us? You don't unless we are the robbers, the rapers, 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:27.199 the drug addict. Why And it's that stigma, that prototype 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:31.840 that that it's a forto massume that unconsciously makes people 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:35.640 be afraid of us. In real life, you'll see so 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:40.520 much negativity about us and little positive stuff that people 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:46.000 start to believe it. You know how many great attorneys, doctors, producers, 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.800 great talented Afro Latinos there is that don't get credit 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.160 credit for their work. That is a very tough thing. 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:54.960 And I think that we need to talk about it, 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.080 like let's stop trying to hide it and let's really 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.319 talk about it. These conversations be to how I've been 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.120 so you did create that awareness on the love and 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:07.800 hip hop platform? Correct? Um? Since then, yes, have they 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:13.680 offered you any roles or is it still the same situation? Well, 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:17.320 I was. I did a movie. Um, I did a 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.440 movie with Chris Stokes. Shoutouts to him. I love him 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:22.960 so much for supporting me. Fall Girls is actually on 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.319 Netflix and I I was grateful to the fact that 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.760 he allowed me to speak some Spanish, but Honestly, whenever 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.800 I do get offered roles, for the most part, none 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.280 of them are representing the Afro Latino community has never 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:40.080 been Dominican, Latina, Romanian, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Colombiana, and it's 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.760 never being Latina. And then that continues to bother me. 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.680 I'm grateful for the opportunities given, but I would like 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:52.840 for all these directors, producers, a and ours, executive whatever, whatever, 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.080 let me point the finger at YouTube. All of you 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:00.240 hypocrites that say that you want to support the Latino Commy, 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.320 that you want to support the after Latino community, that 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.320 you want to see more diversity, that you feel that 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.439 you you know, you were holding our hands and you're 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.880 supporting us. You're a hypocrite because you have the platform 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.720 and you have the possibilities to make a difference. You 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.720 have the possibilities to change the narrative, and you don't. 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:21.080 You continue to get the same actors, the same roles. 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:24.440 That nothing has changed. When George Floyd and the Black 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:29.320 Lives Matter movement happened, I tell you, everybody, everybody was there, 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.560 oh support were so everybody has something to stay on 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:36.240 social media. Now that things have somewhat calmed, down. Who 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.280 do you here talking about it? What has happened? Nothing 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.960 has happened. We're going back to the same ship we 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.400 were doing before. So if you ask me if things 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:48.600 have changed, no, I believe that the conversation did get 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.360 started a lot. I am grateful to the fact that 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.760 a lot of after Latinos that didn't even know or 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:57.320 consider themselves after Latino, after the movement and everything that 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.080 has happened, and even after hearing me speak, now I 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.280 feel proud of saying I am Latino, I am after Latino. 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:08.400 You know, take they they now accept their their ancestors. Okay, 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:20.480 So I am grateful for that. But do I see 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:25.520 a big difference. No. When you look at the charts 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:30.720 of artists, artists Latinos, okay, artists Latinos and Latin gram 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:36.640 Biana whichever one you can here with one hand, how 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:40.280 many after Latinos are in there, and they don't even 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.320 look like us. We have such shout out to him, 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.760 admiring food and moment. We can't obviously forget about the Okay, 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.600 little and if you want to go all the way back, 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:51.560 we're gonna go all the way back to you know, 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.240 and handed I, who's you know that we're part of 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.240 the urban they were part of the urban movement in 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:01.280 Canadio side that we get those things, but they this 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:05.280 new generation, it's very little of us there, and it's 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.040 not based off talent. There's a lot of Alfro Latinos 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.760 that are very talented, but if your complexion and your 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:15.000 looks don't match what social media and popularity will accept, 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.360 you're never gonna make it. Let's let's not get a twisted. 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.160 There's a lot of Latin talent, and let's talk about 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.240 something that bothers me too. When we talk about film, 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.600 when we talk about novella, soapbapers, when we talk about 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.160 the commercials, when you talk about all these other things, 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:36.240 me there memo, lesta minco molasis in main seeing them 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:40.280 everything when I see that, when they talk with all 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.320 due respect about Mexicans or whatever, they want to choose 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.480 this prototype, this prototype of the same thing that they 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.160 use in every novel. Lab right, either your blonde, blue 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:53.960 eyes or labrnet with certain features more European features. No, 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:59.800 show me what a real name? Not Colombiana. How does 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.160 this want of look show many more diversence? Show me 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.000 the Dominicans when you go to the Dominican Republic and 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.359 you see all of us, we don't look like that movie. 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.199 We don't look like that. Everybody is not cookie cutter pretty. No, 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.920 because that cuts out a lot of opportunities for real 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.000 good actors. So you're not picking just people based off 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.760 how good of actors they are. They have to fit 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.000 this pretty You know. I don't like that because that's 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.840 not true diversity. So of course when I was hit 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:28.920 up and they were like, oh, we didn't see there 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.159 was a lack of after Latini dad on the film, 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.399 of course I felt some type of way because we 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:37.280 just finished going through a protest about Black Lives Matter, 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:41.440 going through a protest talking about diversities. We just finished 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:46.679 telling you guys, hello, we're here Latino. If I'm lucky 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:52.200 knows after Latinos, we're here. Please give us opportunities. They 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.280 know whom Champ said. We're talented, we're good, we're educated. 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:59.440 Please did you did anybody care? No? Because it's still 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:01.879 not being done. You know what's the words. The worst 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:06.960 part about who did taking consideration? I heart radio because 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:12.520 making a difference. They said that. What really got me, 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.240 Kanya was the at least they're saying well, at least 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.280 there's a representation. First of all, sixty years ago West 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.960 Side Story came out, they didn't even let Maria, she 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.119 was supposed to be cast. She tried to be the 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:28.040 main protaga okay, and the rest of them weren't even like, 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:30.840 you know, the majority. And it was about how you 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.640 have other people playing Puerto Ricans right in in New 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:38.520 York where there's uh tons of you know, the lad 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.119 xt community that are trying to break out and acting 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.080 trying to break up, and then they're like so thirsty, 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.159 like everyone, all the Latinos in the world should go 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:48.600 see it during the pandemic because oh, because we don't 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:49.919 support each other. No no no, no, no no no no no 0:18:49.920 --> 0:19:01.520 no no no no no no no no. When there's 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:05.400 movies about Caucasians and there's movies about anybody, we are 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:08.199 the consumers and we go watch it. So why is 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.439 it just our responsibility to go watch? Okay, so and 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:15.480 don't said, let's also make ourselves responsible, because yes, we're 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.480 very good at putting the finger to everybody that is 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:22.359 not supporting us, but Latina amongst ourselves, are we being 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.159 supportive of each other? Are we being supportive of our 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.480 own films. Are we being supportive of our own radio stations? 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:31.320 Are we being supportive of our own brands? Are we 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:34.800 being supportive? No, we're consuming as well. And let me 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:36.919 not say no because I don't like to generalize. But 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:41.679 we consume from other cultures, We consume from other races. 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.920 But are we Are we being supportive of ourselves and 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:47.480 we don't support each other? How do we expect other 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:50.080 people to respect and support us? But think about it, 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:52.960 A lot of of our LATINOX community don't. I mean, 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:54.720 they say we are the good the consumers and we 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:58.080 just streamers. But to be honest, like, how many times 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.639 were did your parents bring you to the movies as 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:04.640 a kid? Think about it coming from those air urban areas? 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:09.080 How many times? How many like? And I understand the 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:12.880 support thing? But is it our responsibility? Yes? It is, Yes, 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:14.960 it is. You know why because maybe our parents weren't 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:17.760 educated at that moment back then, but the Latin X 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.640 community we know better about give us better jobs, were 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:22.760 not better to be able to give our kids money 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.480 to go support these things? Do you got? It's deeper 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:27.639 than that. It's it's the root of it all is 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:32.880 that we now for us, we're like the job. We're 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.800 the minority everywhere, and then they want us to spend 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:40.600 money and support I get, I guess the party. I 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:45.080 get the part of finances. I get the part of finances. 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:47.000 I get the part which we definitely to talk about 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:50.199 finances and in the Latino community because we have a 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:52.719 lot of education to go through. But I get that 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:57.480 part to be supportive. Sometimes you know, it's not even 0:20:57.480 --> 0:20:59.879 about the money. You know, it's not even about the money. 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.119 It could be a simple post. It could be a 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:04.640 simple word of mouth. You know, a word of mouth. 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:07.400 You know what I'm saying, because if you see flos 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:14.919 a d J a J, you go automatically go said boo, 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:17.119 that was good, But you won't try to go support 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:19.440 your own people. Okay, he needs a bread too, No, 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:22.280 So that's what I'm saying. We are so good at 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:24.960 bring the finger everybody for not supporting us. But let's 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:28.920 also be responsible for ourselves. We have to educate ourselves parents. 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:31.560 As parents, and you know, I have my children in 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:34.920 my ovaries better as parents, we also have to be 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:38.760 make ourselves responsible for educating our children about their own culture, 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:48.960 about their own culture. Espoliol not for nothing, shout out 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:52.200 to you if you don't know Spanish and you are Latino, 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:54.800 or if you do know Spanish or whatever the case 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:56.440 may be, and or if you have to polish it. 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:00.359 That's part of our culture, the Latin X community. I 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:03.359 want to give you guys that advice. Obviously, in this country, 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:06.320 if you know more than one language, you're obviously already winning. 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:09.600 But it is so important to not lose our culture, 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:11.960 even if we're born in the United States. I was 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:14.840 born here in Miami, Okay. I was born here and 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:17.160 I didn't even get to go to my parents country, 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:25.200 Dominican Republican. I was like eighteen spaddle utez don minicana Latina. 0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:26.919 And whether you like it or not, here I know 0:22:26.960 --> 0:22:28.679 you go to school and you learn English and school 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:33.479 you speak Spanish. It's important to still maintain our culture. 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:37.200 Our music, lacomida are everything. We don't want to lose 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:41.000 that magic and that comes from education and our parents. 0:22:41.480 --> 0:22:43.720 Parents need to do their part. Two. I just want 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:47.520 to find also solutions to the problems, because I know 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:50.280 that there's a lot of problem making of supporting our people. 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:54.760 Still are they embracing this new term latin X. I 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:56.760 think that a lot of people are embracing the new 0:22:56.840 --> 0:23:02.240 terminology of Latin XI gen um. I think or do 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:06.239 people say I'm a Latino, I'm a Latina. I don't know. 0:23:06.359 --> 0:23:09.159 Some people like the neutral, you know, the Latin X 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:11.119 and just keep it as that. I personally like to 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:13.600 say I'm Latina and that's just what it is. You know, 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:15.600