understand latinos, you have no idea. a lot more view in the world. like, yes! we re just close with each other. we were taught to be grateful. and why. you can still be grateful, but you don t have to be quite. los angeles, a city rich with a latina culture. five brazilians enjoy. i ve been here for 27 years, with my chosen family, my friends, and my career. i m a matchmaker. i know what it is. there is a lot of good in this world. so, you better believe, i know exactly where to get the best emily to serve the lady. i ve been coming to this restaurant since 1995. since i got here to l.a., i mean you are actually, on your day one. i am, girl. one of the things that i love and i m obsessed with is that mole here. today, we are gonna make a [speaking spanish] . i love my puerto rican acts. here all all the ingredients. we re gonna blend this together. did you guys have a restaurant in oaxaca also? when we were in the oaxaca
gonna be some young, black fajita? the specific specifically of being a cuban american, going up three generations under one roof, we know this. like, i was with my mom, you, know under the same roof, until i was around, 16 or something or something like that. that is progressive. then, we have the beautiful gina torres, who is an actress and a tv producer. she has navigated this world of the letting a culture, where in this world of hollywood, they don t necessarily see her as a latina. it s not okay. he is in a kitchen in a restaurant. he needs to be in the hospital. i mean, for a long time, i didn t know she was latina. isn t that great? yeah. there is a fabulous maria hinojosa. i ve spoken to her. she was with me on my podcast. every time i talk to her, i feel like i just went to harbor first class about life and politics, and then. we have your friend that you
us, now stay tuned for the culture is latina, actress christina machado, is hosting a shame in american culture, she ll be joined ply gloria estefan, gina torres, and maria hinojosa, plus an exclusive interview with oscar an emmy nominated actress rosie perez. that starts right now on msnbc, and its streaming on peacock. until we meet again, i m sam stein, in four ayman mohyeldin, goodnight. ldin goodnight. latinas are not monolithic. yet, there is something inherently latina about every single one of us. people think, we kind of
racism so embedded in latin life, period? the legacy of the caste system is a horrible one. it might be a human condition. it is a human condition of colonization. yes, it is colonization that still exists in our mind. so, the caste system is something that has been outlawed for centuries. now. but the colonizers tell us, you have to be lighter skin to be more beautiful. and the things that we don t realize what we are actually say. we are still seeing that white people are better than us. and we are still aspiring to being white. and that s because of the caste system. you are saying there s only one way to be latina. there s only one way to be black. but like, why people get to be all sorts of different things. our identity is very complex because i am an immigrant. but i have friends who whose families have been in texas, in the first census of texas. you know, i am a roth
a monolith, you know? that we are not a monolith, but yet, they re still thinking inherently, latina, about every single one of us. and still, i could have a table, 100 feet long, and we would be with everything that we look like. so, i just want to thank you for coming here, and joining this little actress. [laughs] little? not little. thank you for having us. i have a cuban sandwich right here. [laughs] this is a total cuban sandwich. i have a glorious sandwich, and a cuban stand. i love it! in the beginning, you are told that you were to latino for american audiences. absolutely. and to american for latino audiences. it went both ways. i grew up in both worlds, and i feel very comfortable in both. and that s what music allowed me to be what i became, because we had vocabulary. musically, and you know, language wise, in both worlds.