Latino 'erasure' at a critical time? SNL's Julián Castro omission sparks criticism. - NBCLatino
In the show’s 44-year history, SNL has had three Latino cast members: The Chilean-born American actor Horatio Sanz ; Fred Armisen, whose mother is Venezuelan ; and Melissa Villaseñor, a Mexican American comic who joined the show in 2016.
The show, which shares NBC Universal as a parent company with NBC News, does not currently have any male Latino cast members. “When there’s an issue of underrepresentation, you have a problem,” Felix Sanchez, the chairman and co-founder of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, told NBC News. “Understandably any portrayal of a Latino by a non-Latino cast member is criticism the show would want to avoid,” Sanchez said. “But without a Latino cast member, the show can’t portray a critical community and by not including a representation of Castro, the show is erasing his presence in the race.
“Maybe they don’t find Castro funny or don’t consider him to be an object of satire," Molina-Guzmán said. But when it comes to Latinos, “to erase us from the public consciousness while we are being politically vilified is dangerous and destructive," she said."The omission of Castro is compounded by the fact that it’s coming while we have a president whose policies and rhetoric have had a negative impact on Latino and Latin American communities.
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