Bimbo sells bread products in Spain as well. That country has some of the most racist baked goods marketing out there, including Obamita cookies (little large eared black chocolate heads), small donuts chocolate on the outside, yellow cake on the inside, called Filipinos, a chocolate ice cream bar called “Magnum” the dark chocolate flavor advertised by Eva Longoria Parker who is shown lasciviously about to seeming perform fellatio on it, their version of powdered chocolate, Cola-Cao, featured little cartoon black figures but then some seemingly as unconscious as Longoria futboleros who are Afro-Brazilian lent their images as well as their children to a minstrelsy ad campaign. Don’t get me started on Spanish popular culture and racism…..
I read O’Brien’s article in CNN and agree with your take on it, I think she’s great. I admit that I wondered what her ethnicity was and it took a bit of internet searching to find out, I think it was more recently that she decided to work her heritage into these big CNN reports on what PoCs are thinking out here in the USA. That’s the only thing I find problematic, of course she works for them, and I guess we should be grateful when big corporate media throws us a bone, but I cannot help but wonder if had we not had a bi-racial President if CNN would have been motivated to hire more PoCs to appear on screen. Did anyone else notice the much larger number of particularly Afircan descent newscasters on the network in the past year? because as far as Latinos are concerned, I find Rick Sanchez an embarassment - but that is of course the problem. Why I should I believe he represents me? Because he’s the only Latino regularly shown on CNN besides Soledad O’Brien? And that is what I find poignant about her narrative - the ways in which you see the stress she feels being one of the few so-called minorities on the network and feeling pressured to tell stories specifically about identity issues or about people normally ignored by other journalists. But what if she wanted to cover other kinds of stories? Why should she be the one to cover this, should not Anderson Cooper or any of the others also care about these stories?
In PR at least in my family pelo malo has curly, frizzy, kinky, hair, and I have a version of this - thick, crespado, frizzy, wavy. They used to put hot coconut oil and egg yolks on it, burning my scalp and pull on it till I had tears coming out of my eyes as they hit it with a blow dryer to straighten it out. Several hairdressers threw up their hands, they could not deal with it, so they gave me a perm (this genius was a hairdresser once we moved to FL, hello??), cut it all off, flat ironed it, etc. Finally I found an Italian American stylist who gets my hair, she says it’s “a cross between Chinese hair and black hair.” LoL In all seriousness though this is one example of many of the internalized self-hatred and racism that pervades many of our families and is passed down to us.
Bimbo sells bread products in Spain as well. That country has some of the most racist baked goods marketing out there, including Obamita cookies (little large eared black chocolate heads), small donuts chocolate on the outside, yellow cake on the inside, called Filipinos, a chocolate ice cream bar called “Magnum” the dark chocolate flavor advertised by Eva Longoria Parker who is shown lasciviously about to seeming perform fellatio on it, their version of powdered chocolate, Cola-Cao, featured little cartoon black figures but then some seemingly as unconscious as Longoria futboleros who are Afro-Brazilian lent their images as well as their children to a minstrelsy ad campaign. Don’t get me started on Spanish popular culture and racism…..
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I read O’Brien’s article in CNN and agree with your take on it, I think she’s great. I admit that I wondered what her ethnicity was and it took a bit of internet searching to find out, I think it was more recently that she decided to work her heritage into these big CNN reports on what PoCs are thinking out here in the USA. That’s the only thing I find problematic, of course she works for them, and I guess we should be grateful when big corporate media throws us a bone, but I cannot help but wonder if had we not had a bi-racial President if CNN would have been motivated to hire more PoCs to appear on screen. Did anyone else notice the much larger number of particularly Afircan descent newscasters on the network in the past year? because as far as Latinos are concerned, I find Rick Sanchez an embarassment - but that is of course the problem. Why I should I believe he represents me? Because he’s the only Latino regularly shown on CNN besides Soledad O’Brien? And that is what I find poignant about her narrative - the ways in which you see the stress she feels being one of the few so-called minorities on the network and feeling pressured to tell stories specifically about identity issues or about people normally ignored by other journalists. But what if she wanted to cover other kinds of stories? Why should she be the one to cover this, should not Anderson Cooper or any of the others also care about these stories?
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In PR at least in my family pelo malo has curly, frizzy, kinky, hair, and I have a version of this - thick, crespado, frizzy, wavy. They used to put hot coconut oil and egg yolks on it, burning my scalp and pull on it till I had tears coming out of my eyes as they hit it with a blow dryer to straighten it out. Several hairdressers threw up their hands, they could not deal with it, so they gave me a perm (this genius was a hairdresser once we moved to FL, hello??), cut it all off, flat ironed it, etc. Finally I found an Italian American stylist who gets my hair, she says it’s “a cross between Chinese hair and black hair.” LoL In all seriousness though this is one example of many of the internalized self-hatred and racism that pervades many of our families and is passed down to us.
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Ramos is way hotter than the “Silver Fox” gringo
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