She just said she's latina….whatever Zoe!
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activista — 14 years ago(September 26, 2011 04:06 AM)
Oh,boy,here we go againonce again, peoplethere are black people ALL over Latin Americathey were brought there hundreds of years ago as slavesplease watch Henry Louis Gates's BLACK IN LATIN AMERICA series in which the black heritage and people of Cuba,Mexico,Peru and Brazil is explored. Newsflashwhite and brown people alone do not have a claim to being Hispanic/Latinoyou can be both Black and Latino if you have a Black parent and a Latino parentit's not THAT hard to figure out! Zoe has every right to claim her Latina heritage because her mama's Dominican and her dad's black Puerto Rican, plus she spent her teen years in the DR and learned to speak Spanish. So she is not a so-called "sellout" for anything. Unfortunately, a lot of Americans don't know jack about the millions of black Latinos that exist in Latin America today, otherwise they wouldn't be making these silly comments like yours!
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icydayz — 14 years ago(September 26, 2011 12:56 PM)
you should know that hispanic is a culture not a race.. anyone can be hispanic white black or even native americanand if you knew history you would know more african's came through the north atlantic slave trade to south america/central america then in the USA..
everytime someone black is doing well the blacks will always try to pull them back to reality "oh you know your black so dont think your special, your just like us"
we consider our selves African "American" just like she considers herself Afro LATINA
she explicitly says that she is black and latina and talks about being black in several interviews, why can't we accept it and support her? -
pepi_saliki — 14 years ago(October 04, 2011 09:26 AM)
You people do realize that latino is not a race right? Never in my life have I seen so many people who are this ignorant. Latino is a cultural identity. Her parents are DOMINICAN and PUERTO RICAN, so YES she is a Latina. People do not realize that Latinos 1908are diverse group of people ranging from the lightest shade to the darkest. Gosh people STOP with this bull! The girl is Black AND Latina. One deals with the race (the color of her skin) and the other her ethnicity.
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happyphantom9 — 14 years ago(October 05, 2011 01:51 PM)
You are kidding right? You realize that "Latina" is not a skin color? Black is a skin color. Latina is a heritage/culture. Guess what? She's both.
Her father is Dominican (Hispanic!) and her mom is Puerto Rican (also Hispanic!) She even lived in her father's native Dominican Republic for many years.
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naximuz — 14 years ago(December 12, 2011 05:22 AM)
Yeah, man! That whore! her skin is totally black, so she HAS TO BE BLACK no matter what her genetic ancestry says! right! and the Jews! beep them all I say!
lol, this is ridiculous, why are you classifying people into categories like it's the 1930ies?
She's incredibly attractive (and talented), Deal with it. Who the beep cares if she's African or Chinese (edit: or god forbid, something in between!)? Seriously? -
skinnyjoeymerlino — 14 years ago(December 14, 2011 08:23 AM)
Zoe Saldana is appealing to white America because she's beautiful. Plus, quite simply, an increasing number of Black women are dating/marrying white men. Zoe being the romantic interest to a white male lead is reflective of this trend.
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shub_star — 14 years ago(December 28, 2011 08:34 AM)
I agree and it is all about marketing and appealing to white America. Zoe Saldana is DIb68SGUSTING! The woman is BLACK LATINA but is not proud of her black heritage!
Bull! It is people like you who selectively choose quotes and then try and paint her as not being proud of her black heritage! There are countless interviews (and I'm sure you have seen them) where she has stated that she is black and proud to be. She also says she is Latina and proud to be. Both are okay because she is BLACK LATINA!
If you asked Will Smith if he was proud to be Black, he would say yes. If you also ask him if he was proud to be American, he would also say yes. Being proud to be Black and proud to be Latina is not mutually exclusive!