Another Latina got into it – again. This time it was Gulissa Esbar Who, checks the notes, did it just two days of filming Love island USA Before you start from the villa. Cuban America saw her dreams of a small screen reputation end on June 4 after TMZ and Reddit users He shared two clips from the occasional using N-Word on podcasts. And if Escobar would say that while it was recorded, what does the camera say?
Since everything went down, Apologized. “I want to apologize for using a word that I had no right to use,” he said in an instagram position on June 6th. “I used it ignorance. I do not fully understand the weight, the story or the pain behind it. I am not trying to be aggressive or harmful, but I now recognize that the intention does not justify the impact and its impact is real.
As Escobar videos comfortably say that N-word reappeared, so did a Tiktok video, where he talked about the loss of social media because of the Support for President Donald Trump.
As funny tiktok shapes Love island USA Producers pulling Escobar from her bed in the middle of the night go viral, and as commentators online show her roots in Miami to minimize her anti-black, it is enticing to throw Escobar away, to vote for her from the proverbial island, In spite of all that, 39% of Latins voted for Trump, In a tacit support of his vision for an American optimized for white English men to the detriment of everyone else. And no, not all Miami Cubans were.
“If you are not black, you should not say the n-word. It’s so simple.”
Christina Escobar
Escobar is almost not the only non-black Latina to throw the n-word. Generally Jennifer Lopez encountered problems To do it in the 2001 track “I’m real (remix murder)” with the Ja rule. In 2019, Jane the Virgin (and now Will Trent) star Gina Rodriguez took out the heat to record it using it. And in Latin neighborhoods across the country, sweetening slips from non -black latrine mouths as often as “mija” or “nena”.
So what’s going on here? It seems that there is some confusion about our position in the US racial hierarchy. While Latinidad is an ethnic identity, not a tribal, and the Latines come in every race, it is true that the US has tried to imprison the “real” Americans.
But if you are not black, you should not say the n-word. It’s so simple. And while some latines are black, many are not – including Escobar, Lopez and Rodriguez.
Their Latinidad does not give them (or no one) honorable black regime. Living in neighborhoods that are the majority, Black does not give non -black Latines Black state. Dating someone who is black does not give non -black state latines black. The existence of black relatives does not give non -black latines black state. The feeling of a common struggle with black peoples does not give non -black latines black.
“Many times, those who are not black Latins who throw the n-word around occasionally, as they are to launch, want to have both ways.
Christina Escobar
Many times, those who are not black latines who throw the N-tapping around occasionally, as they are to slap them, want to have both ways. When they suit them, they are “women of color” who want street beliefs and access to black communities. But when they find it more beneficial to align with white whites, they change. Think of Lopez playing an Italian woman in 2001 The wedding designer – Yes, the same year released this version of “I’m Real”.
And as the latest election has shown, the large sections of Latines are aligned with whiteness, including those who are themselves white but also many who are not, but hope that their proximity to whiteness, their obedience to white will keep them from the white surnames. And when that happens, we take Trump to the White House, the Immigration Officers and Customs Implementation (Ice) who terrorize our communities and an authoritarian regime that is that is making the Latin American dictators jealous.
And as most Trump supporters across the country realize in huge ice raids, this white faith will never save them – it never has and will never.
As a group and as individuals, we must have a better understanding of what it means to be non -black Latin. We need to have the conversations – about the nationality against the race, the privilege and the organization of social justice.
There are many people who believe that the whole concept of Latinidad is a scam that either enhances white superiority, marking us as different from black and indigenous people or hurts us, characterizing us (even European people among us) as not white.
I see the truth in both of them. But what happens if we used the Latin index as a principle of organization to ask for a change? We could be a strong power within the US if we were better organized. In spite of all that, We are the greatest “minority” We work most of the development of the nation, and We will be the fifth biggest economy in the world If we were measured by us.
But very often we fail to exploit this power to promote our needs. Instead, more than one -third of Latines are in themselves and in their communities about what their identity in the United States means today. We need to call them and call them. Yes, maybe Chicanas have a different framework than Cuban Americans. Perhaps the experiences in the northeast look different from those in the southwest. Maybe someone who looks like Escobar will believe that the beautiful privilege will carry it from any chaos of the branded and nationality could get it – and perhaps where it is from, it has.
“We need to have a better understanding of what it means to be non-black Latinos. We need to have talks-for the nationality of the race, the privilege and the organization of social justice.”
Christina Escobar
But regardless of our individual conditions, we have to get to work if we are ever to stop “sleeping giants” and be just giants.
First, we need accountability. I am glad that Escobar got started from Love island USA, But companies led by whites will do less and less of these things as we go down to Trump’s second term. So what can we do? Escobar has about 70,000 fans on her Instagram-if you are one of them, consider her listening and saying why: that the use of N-word is unacceptable and thus votes against the rights of racial and ethnic margins. When people online or in your personal life do racist things, don’t let it slip. Tell them that it is unacceptable around you and you mean it.
In addition, follow black people on the internet and support their work. If you want more examples why the Escobar path is so stupid I recommend Franchesca Ramsey’s food. Her “I never thought leopards would eat my fact” The bit is a hilarious evergreen Diddy about how quickly those who seek proximity to whiteness will see that their obedience does not protect them.
“We have to get to work if we are ever going to stop being” Sleeping Giants “and just be giants.”
Christina Escobar
This brings me to the real alliance with the black communities, whether they are also Latins or not. Stop their success-Black communities have received nothing from non-black latines-and instead support artists, marches and voting measures without trying to take over or do them. Encourage non -black Latin friends and family members to do the same.
Finally, let’s learn from them. Black peoples in the US are organizing a fairer society – which benefits us all – for a long time. They have created a consensus and institutions that we could imitate.
Let’s learn and see where we get. I bet it will be much better than watching one of our Love island USA While the ice disappears the people-non-citizens and citizens on the US streets.
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