Sunday, March 14, 2010

LALA COVERS LATINA MAGAZINE


Lala looked beyond STUNNING in the April 2010 Cover issue of Latina Mag. You will find in her issue Carmelo cleared the air on everyone's assumptions about "not wanting to marry her".... Looks like he was the one waiting on her. She’s speaking of a first person piece she recently wrote for Latina.com on being Puerto Rican, in which she explained that, since childhood, people have often assumed that she is black. “Which I am!” she says, almost yelling. “But I am also 100 percent Puerto Rican and I’m proud of that. People got it twisted and thought I was saying, I’’m Puerto Rican. I’m not black. That isn’t what I was saying. It’s just that when I tell someone I’m Puerto Rican, I don’t want to hear someone say, ‘You ain’t Puerto Rican. You black.’ As if I can only be one or the other. Do I look like Jennifer Lopez? No. Clearly, I’m a black woman. However you want to define that, that’s what I am. And I’m also a Spanish-speaking Puerto Rican woman. Period.



Source: Concrete Loop

1 comment:

  1. see latinos dont come in one color..from the whitest to the blackest and errything in between..never judge a book by its covers.

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