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Namor talking about how horrible the "colonizer" language of Spanish is in the grand scheme of things is gonna rub A LOT of people wrong and making them sit with that and unpack that... SPANISH fluency is just a form of elitism that is used to deny you're identity.
White mexicanos are represented in popular media and not brown ones. Mestizo and Native Mexicanos are very much alive and well in Mexico and in the US. If the LA situation didn't teach you that colonizer languages aren't the only languages for Mexicanos... Then.... you know now
When folks APPLAUD white actors for speaking Spanish, but laugh at Mexicanos and Latinos who speak broken Spanish it pisses me off. Spanish was not a language we were allowed to speak in the States for a LONG time. To this day artist's and people get physically assaulted for it
1. #Spoilersahead: As much as I love the potential for #minorityandfemalerepresentation in future #MarvelCinematicUniverse films, I still think the way that #Falcon (@AnthonyMackie) got the #CaptainAmericashield is a #copout by @Marvel /@MarvelStudios, since its previous
2. representations of him (including #EndGame) have been less than ideal (a secondary character who got knocked out of fights all the time, paving the way for the observation / reservation that this #passingofthetorch was not earned). And the fact that #SteveRogers (@ChrisEvans)
3. only gave up his shield for his love (#PeggyCarter / #HayleyAtwell), though a nice sentiment in itself, leaves room for his return in the future. Thus, giving @Marvel / @MarvelStudios the option to #swaywiththepoliticalwinds. While #TonyStarks (@RobertDowneyJr) sacrifice was a
