Tenoch Huerta / Mexico Agency
The actor Tenoch Huerta shared his experiences in the professional field, in addition to talking about racism and discrimination with minors who attended the Interview with children in the office of the mayor of Iztapalapa.
The artist began the conversation with this phrase: “What a beautiful creature you are, and no one will tell you otherwise”, the children immediately found out about it and asked him: What did he understand by racism?
The interpreter answers in part: “When people separate us because of how we see ourselves, then based on how we see ourselves and how the other sees us, they tell us if we are worth it or not, we are who we are.” beautiful or not beautiful, that we are intelligent or not, that we are violent or not, because of what we look at.”
Immediately afterwards, Huerta asked the children about the color of the dolls at home, because they also wondered about the color of the superheroes’ skin, and most of them answered that they were white.
“Until the Black Panther came along and gave us the color manly. Do you see that, when we were little, we were taught these very ugly things? but now one of you can aspire to be an actress, an actor or a superhero, he explained.
After several attendees mentioned not feeling accepted, because they do not meet the standard of decorum, Tenoch answered: “This opinion is not in the face, not in the body, not in the accent, not in the colony; that they live, not in the money that their parents have or not, Do you know where the ugliness that I told you is? In the eyes of those who saw you, in the eyes of those who told you that you were ugly, ugliness in the eyes of others, not in you, because you are completely beautiful.”
The artist, who is part of the “Narcos” series, also explained throughout his career that the kind of discrimination he faces is more due to the roles he is offered, so a movement has arisen to change this situation. Poder Prieto and Prieto Festival, which in that city Hall has its second edition.
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“If we allow dark players to represent only strikers, children will believe that you are only good strikers, because you can’t dream what you can’t see,” he emphasized.
After telling part of the efforts to the cast of the Marvel film, Tenoch Huerta wanted to leave a message for everyone, and before leaving the place, he expressed: “It is easier to be happy, to be happy, to be satisfied. with our life If we stop judging ourselves so harshly, yes, as much as you can, you idiots because it is not easy.
