MTV Drops “True Life: I’m A Nuyorican”
24 April 2009, 6:30 PM. By Alex Alvarez
MTV has dropped “True Life: I’m a Nuyorican” because of the backlash it received from the Puerto Rican community.
This episode of the documentary series focused on three young Nuyoricans - 18-year-old Naizsha, José, 20, and Rose, 22. Naizsha is on a quest to lose weight in order to join the Air Force and finds it difficult to hold down a job because she was “raise to speak her mind,” Puerto-Rican born José dropped out of high school and hopes to make it as a boxer and Rose - sweet, delicate, dew-kissed Rose - is a belly dancer who believes salsa is for “spics,” prefers English to Spanish and dates and Ecuadorian.
Naizsha does not condone this foolishness.
Kassie Canter, a spokesperson for MTV, explained the network’s decision (Latinos = $$$, so don’t piss them off?): “Having gotten feedback from our viewers and after an internal review, we decided to pull the episode from our Web site and have no plans to re-air the show.”
MTV doesn’t have clips from the show online, only pictures of Rose giving us the side eye, so we’ll turn to you: Did any of you watch the episode when it aired in January? What did you think? And since when does one fool on the television represent all Latinos? Besides Carlos Mencia. Of course.
MTV pulls ‘Nuyorican’ snub [NY Daily News]
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I saw the episode twice, and the edit/cut of the show pigeon hole the three Nuyoricans as having the stereotypical idea of how they are suppose to be. The two females had sass and attitude, Rose was the ‘white wash’ Nuyorican who equated salsa dancing as being sexist and backwards, where belly dancing and speaking proper english was held in her mind as being forward and modern. Jose and Naizasha had their stereotypical issues of living in the barrio and trying to make it out, by either boxing or joining the Air Force, same o same o stuff we find in any ‘latino’ story.