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“But I Don’t Speak Puerto Rican”

Posted in Comedy, tagged , , on July 29, 2013| 4 Comments »


Hilarious. (h/t to Pocho.com)

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Puerto Rican Teen Who Refused to Pledge Allegencie to US Flag Speaks in Ponce

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , on July 28, 2013| 4 Comments »


It is in Spanish, but what do they say about the wisdom of young children. Just a few of Enidris’ quotes

“I will not respect the flag of a country that does not respect my country.”

“Yo, Puerto Rico, we are a colony.” (well, she didn’t say that but that was the gist.)

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Opinion: Marc Anthony misses the point about Hollywood and Latinos

Posted in Writing on July 26, 2013| 3 Comments »


This week’s NBC Latino column.

NBC Latino

Marc Anthony just killed my buzz.

Just a week after I wrote a column giving the pop star major props for how he handled the “God Bless America” social media uproar, Anthony is now telling everyone that Hollywood doesn’t owe Latinos anything.

Rewind that, please?

In an interview with HuffPost Live, the show’s host asked if there were “space to have a different kind of Latino representation” in entertainment, given the whole Devious Maids debacle.

After a quick little comment about “the show with the fine maids,” Anthony said this:

As far as people being in uproar, they don’t owe us anything The industry doesn’t owe us anything, networks don’t owe us anything. You have a complaint? Educate yourself, take up writing, become a producer, direct it.

First, the question asked by the Huff Post Live’s Marc Lamont never asked Anthony if Hollywood owed Latinos anything…

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