John Leguizamo Tries to Create Latino History by Appropriating Black American History and Lexicon Wholesale.

John is the latest Latino person who is trying to appropriate Black American history.

My Lovely Suque
3 min readApr 29, 2023

John Leguizamo is a Latino Celebrity. He was born in Colombia. His family immigrated to America in 1960 when John was 3.

John has a new show on MsNBC called “Liguizamo Does America” where he “ travels across America to bring viewers inside America’s thriving Latino communities”.

John has been doing interviews with various media outlets to promote the show.

In these interviews, he has been appropriating Black Americans’ language AND their history to tell the “story of Latinos in America”

He says things like “I found Latin Excellence everywhere”. He didn’t create the that term. What he did was appropriate the term “Black Excellence” from Black Americans and replace “Black” with “Latin ”.

He talks about Latinos being “foundational” to America. It is obvious where he got that from.

It is from Black Americans. Black Americans on social media have been discussing about how they were foundational to the nation of America. There is even a group of Black Americans who call…

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