https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci Respond to one of the post explaining what the quote says about the experience of Afro Latinas/Latinos en-us 2021-04-14 13:21:43 UTC 2021-04-29 17:01:35 UTC hello@padlet.com mmcdonald291 https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1419556059 "People still tell me, ‘You speak Spanish? You’re Spanish? You’re Puerto Rican?’ They can’t wrap their minds around it...We come in all colors. My grandfather was extremely dark and from Puerto Rico, but his brother had blond hair and blue eyes. There are so many different shades, and I think Hollywood has yet to realize that.”]]> 2021-04-15 05:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1419556059 mmcdonald291 https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1419565227 "I have felt expectations to conceal my Afro Latina features and was even told I looked “too Latina” for a Latina role...We have to be 'fake Latinas' And here’s the thing about ‘fake Latinas’ – when you look at Latinas who are succeeding in Hollywood, they’re super thin and you really can’t tell if she’s Latina or not.”

]]> 2021-04-15 05:12:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1419565227 mmcdonald291 https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1419587931 "I know that nobody wants to talk about it, but we suffer a lot of racism, we suffer a lot of colorism, amongst ourselves."
“They never knew how to place me. It was like, ‘Your look is messing up the choreography,’”
“They told me, ‘You’re beautiful! It’s just that we’re looking for someone more, como que, Latina.’”]]> 2021-04-15 05:23:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1419587931 mmcdonald291 https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1420551022 “I am proud to be Latina. I will not accept anyone telling me that I’m less or whatever, because to me, that is just hysterical. But I don’t like to break and divide myself into all these small little categories like, 'I’m an American, a woman, a Latina, a black Latina.' No. I am Zoe."]]> 2021-04-15 11:55:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1420551022 mmcdonald291 https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1420559973 “Since early, it’d be like, I’m Cuban but people didn’t get it because I was also brown-skinned...We’re all different, but you have to accept our differences. As far as Afro-Cuban goes, I’m finding more and more that there’s people opening their eyes to seeing that Latinos come in all colors, all shades.”

]]> 2021-04-15 11:58:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1420559973 mmcdonald291 https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1420584887 "I'm still trying to get that message out there, to let them know that I'm one of them and part of that community too."]]> 2021-04-15 12:06:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1420584887 mmcdonald291 https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1420696887 “Black Latinos don’t necessarily have the same experience as Latinos who are not Black. I, personally, do not identify as Latino because Latino means Latin and Latin, it means white. And I’m not white, so I just call myself Afro-Taíno cause that’s what I am.”]]> 2021-04-15 12:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1420696887 mmcdonald291 https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1432570874 “It really bewilders me how Latinos are not as aware of our Black history as we are in the states.”]]> 2021-04-19 11:47:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1432570874 mmcdonald291 https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1432617874 "Knowing that as a person who is part of three different minority communities, how much harder I would have to work compared to my white peers. The fight for identity, existence and liberation for myself and others like me would be long and challenging. There's just not enough being done within the Black and Latino communities as far as representation is concerned, behind and in front of the cameras. "]]> 2021-04-19 12:04:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1432617874 https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1434581446 2021-04-19 18:20:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcdonald291/6md1gyh49lds1gci/wish/1434581446