Maine Coons 
Little people 
and Vegetable bands 
So THERE!
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.’”
Maine Coons Little people
and Vegetable bands
So THERE!
The spanish have appropriated the mayan and carribean cultures. There is nothing latin about Mayans and caribs.
I, for one, am outraged that there were no transgendered lesbian women of color winners in any category.
Odd guy to be talking about talent.
Its a drug for ED
What’s wrong with whxte people winning?
Oscar and Felix? Oscar who.....
Yep. Quotas for every group, every year.
Yep. Quotas for every group, every year.
The Oscar quota award show next year will have a latino win ok?
Question: What country does a latino come from?.....
Bend over John and take it like a man. You’ve been had by your “friends” despite all the leftist shit you’ve been spouting about discrimination and immigration.
Re the issue of “diversity” and the Oscars, “You chose poorly” and got what you deserved.
“Latinx” is a term for the woke - Latinos find that term even more stupid than the public at large.
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