Dear
‘America
Ferrera’
Speaking as an
expert on the subject, you are 100% American/100% Latino!
An ‘American Latino’
a ‘Latino’ or an ‘American’ the choice is yours and only yours!
The Military of this
country made this choice yours and has been making it your free choice for over
200 years!
I can now better
relate to my Latino friends and followers as to how they feel while being in
this country.
Thank-you ‘American
Ferrera’ while on ‘the View’ today.
I have been writing,
clumsy as it might be, since 1982 or 83 about ‘Blood’ and ‘lack thereof’ in
order for my native friends, ancestors and anyone with family of the ‘first
people to be allowed to be called ‘Indian’ (Native to this land), by our
invading government of this country.
I should have known
and thank to an Americas Latino
I now do know that this government of
I now do know that this government of
‘Old
While hypocritess’, and the ‘laziness’ of, so called ‘Recognized’ (First people
of this land) and ‘Laziness’ of (Recognized Latinos), has been confusing people
like you for years, 200 to be exact!
Remember,
I walked
away from all of those hypocrites,
native and government casinos!
From award-winning
actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied
collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience
of growing up between cultures.
America Ferrera has
always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to
her parents’ homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having
Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales
alongside apple pie at Christmas never seemed at odds with her American
identity.
Still, she yearned
to see that identity reflected in the larger American narrative.
Now, in American
Like Me, America invites thirty-one of her friends, peers, and heroes to share
their stories about life between cultures. We know them as actors, comedians,
athletes, politicians, artists, and writers. However, they are also immigrants,
children or grandchildren of immigrants, indigenous people, or people who
otherwise grew up with deep and personal connections to more than one culture.
Each of them struggled to establish a sense of self, find belonging, and feel
seen. And they call themselves American enthusiastically, reluctantly, or not
at all.
Ranging from the
heartfelt to the hilarious, their stories shine a light on a quintessentially
American experience and will appeal to anyone with a complicated relationship
to family, culture, and growing up.
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