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.’”
Hey,Hollywood...count me as someone who doesn’t see *any* talent of any color,any gender,etc,etc.
So what do these people want? Quotas for every imaginable group? Every imaginable ethnic group, racial group, sexual identity group?
Maybe be upset at your own people then, john
Perhaps they didnt do enough good work to be represented there
I agree. Selma Hayek should cram the “girls” into a evening gown and be front and center at every awards show.
Maybe no one identifies as LatinX. Or maybe they have opted to leave the US and return home, the Oscars sure weren’t anything to write home about.
Give the (meaningless) Oscar to everyone :)
What is a Latinicks?
Latinx???
Another name for what?
He’s the only Latino I’ve seen using that PC term Latinex. Most Hispanic I have asked dont like it.
And only like three of the hundred genders won. Why were the other 97 I represented?
Just give oscars for everyone. I can name a number of B movies from the 1990’s that should have gotten some. Good lord Anna Nicole Smith was denied an Oscar!
She's actually not Latin, but Lebanese.
Well the quotas are actually coming. Casting quotas for a movie to be considered by what, 2025?
He’s just upset at his sudden realization that his leftist-defined victim group is actually in competition with (and currently being outranked by) another victim group. Same as when radical feminists suddenly discover men in drag stealing all of their sports records.
“Salma Hayek” got “crammed” in a lot of her earlier porn videos.
What is a LatinX? Spanish/Aztec hybrid tranny?
Rhymes with Sphinx? Lynx? Jar-Jar Binks?
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