Latina encircle the tree, the door parked fishing boat.
Republican attacks on her can easily be portrayed as white guys in suits trying to keep a qualified Latina down.
The show has opened doors for Ferrera—doors that were closed to Latina actresses in the past.
She may not want to be called Latina, but she should proudly credit those genes for her famous figure.
Smiling, she would answer, "a la hora Latina, of course." This meant that she would be late.
Last year, in a special election, a Latina stood against two African-American candidates. If the black vote had split, she might have won.
Half the babies in Texas, for instance, are born to Latina mothers, even though Latinos make up under 40% of that state's population.
And I could have refused it at the gate, where a spirited Latina teenager shoved it into my hands as I pushed through the turnstile.
She brags to her girls that you’re a “radical” and a real Dominican (even though on the Plátano Index you wouldn’t rank, Alma being only the third Latina you’ve ever really dated).
