Posted on 04/26/2021 4:24:22 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Despite the overwhelming diversity present at the Academy Awards on Sunday night, actor John Leguizamo is upset that not enough “Latinx” people were represented, seemingly displeased by the fact that Mexican directors (Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Guillermo Del Toro) took home multiple Oscars in the past decade alone.
On Sunday, Leguizamo said “we were excluded again” when he shared a graphic from journalist Jorge Ramos lamenting the lack of “Latinx” representation at this year’s show.
Later, Leguizamo congratulated the blacks and Asians who won the awards on Sunday night while still lamenting the lack of “Latinx” representation. He simultaneously knocked the term “people of color” as something designed to excluded Latin people.
Later, Leguizamo posted a quote lamenting the challenge that Latino people face in the broader society. “Latino people face a double challenge, to create our own positive self-image while battling against the way the broader society portrays us. We are changing this.”
John Leguizamo has previously argued that Latino Republicans suffer from self-hatred due to past racism.
“There is that unfortunate self-hate through all my culture, through all South America, Central America and the Caribbean from the Conquest,” said the actor. “And that’s hard to fight. When that beautiful woman from ‘Roma’ [Yalitza Aparicio] was put on the cover of Latin Vogue, people wrote horrible letters. ‘How dare you put such an ugly face on magazines?’ That’s the insidious self-hate. Because like the majority of us are mixed race — Black and Indian and white. And the majority in our countries who run everything are white European. This doesn’t really go away that easily.”
Leguizamo specifically referred to Texas, where President Trump was able to shore up votes in southern border towns.
“Texas is a trippy place. El Paso, Austin, San Antonio — very liberal, very Democratic. But you’re going to have your people who grew up there under hundreds of years of serious oppression: Jim Crow laws against Mexicans; ‘No dogs or Mexicans allowed’ signs; lynchings of Latin people,” he said. “Six thousand Latin people from the 1800s to early 1900s were lynched, shot and burned alive. So there is this continued fear of being other. You can’t discount that, because when I go to Texas and Arizona, a lot of Latin people say to me, ‘Oh, I’m not Mexican. I’m not Latin. My family comes from Spain.’”
Jeez. Another whiny millionaire.
Hey, John. You tryina join the Brit Royal Family?
I’m planning on retiring soon, and prior to the explosion of woke idiocy, one of the simple things I had most looked forward to was being able to take in a matinee whenever I feel like it. I’ve always loved just escaping from the world for two hours in a movie theater.
Well, the Wuhan virus scare combined with woke movie making has destroyed that notion. I predict the leftists will destroy the entire movie industry from top to bottom in their insane kamikaze mission to force “wokeness” down everyone’s throats at any cost. They’re already well down that road.
They’ll need new categories , Oscar for being White , Black Yellow , Brown etc etc etc
So a bunch of spoiled marxist brats get to change an entire language! I will enjoy watching them eat eachother.
Mexican Americans in Texas don’t like the Guatemalans, Nicaraguans and El Salvadorans taking their jobs.
Border towns that usually vote 85% Democrat, had a higher % of Trump votes than the Trump Percentages in Dallas, Houston and Austin.
Leguizamo is a terrible, one dimensional actor, desperately trying to jump on the BLM train, claiming Mexicans are just as victimized as blacks. Lynchings, “No Mexicans” signs, etc. And it’s not just him. Hollywood is also pushing it. The new season of the Sons of Anarchy spin off, “Mayans”, changed their intro to show mexicanized images of “Mississippi Burning” type scenes as the background of why the Mayans MC Gang are criminals and thugs, but really the good guys.
Plan 9 From Outer Space, Gorgo, Attack of the Eye People and all the other cheesy sci fi flicks that got roasted on MST3K are cinematic masterpieces compared to the virtue signalling woke dreck today.
“John Leguizamo Upset ‘Latinx’ Talent Not Represented At Oscars”
How come you didn’t mentioned the Udmurts or the Quechua or the Hmong or the Amharas, John, you narrow-minded bigot? They deserve representation in the Oscars, too. Each and every one of them, or you’re a supremacist, forever.
And why do you lump native peoples together with a ridiculous name tying them to their European oppressors? Racist.
Hey they gave best director to Del Taco and that shape of water movie was mediocre. What else do you want?
Plus , by liberal standards, Latin-X people are usually “too white” to be considered real minorities.
Yeah the luxury of a movie is pretty much gone for me as well.
There is a vacuum to fill for normal movie making. Not even conservative just normal, interesting stories, basically decent.
You hit on the real issue with the “progressive” worldview. These folks are very regressive, nearly tribalistic, and divisive. There is no real solution for the “equity” agenda. To achieve equity, they will give government all sorts of authority over Americans, but this will only result in more division as each group attempts to carve out it’s perceived share.
The ONLY real solution is a return to core American values: equal treatment under the law and a completely color blind, small government. This will also fall short of perfection of course, but it unifies people versus tearing us apart.
Best picture = Nomadland = white
best actor = Anthony Hopkins = white
best actress = Frances McDormand = white.
Hispanics starting to push for their goodies...push blacks aside...
Her father is Lebanese & her mom Mexican. She was born in Mexico.
“Everybody has won and all must have prizes!”
— The Dodo Bird verdict, Lewis Carroll “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
Instead of celebrating a national holiday, or ignorning it, why do we create a new one and help them all go home to celebrate Cinco de Mayo?
Because Cinco de Mayo is a United States holiday not a Mexican one although it does have Mexican significance, I forget. Cico de Mayo was not a celebrated holiday in Meh-hee-coe
I wasn’t even aware that any Movies were released during the Year of Covid. Did they all go straight to DVD?
(Time to take the Latino pride ants and the tranny ants, toss them in the same jar and shake it up until they fight.)
Latinx might be a new document format like Microsoft’s .docx, .xlsx or pptx.
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