17/09/2025
The Native-Mexican actress and teacher Yalitza Aparicio responds with a poem to those who attack her by calling her “brown" because of her skin color. The attacks mostly come from white Mexican actors and actresses.
"That's right, I am brown, pretty brown ... Brown colored from the mud of my casseroles and comales, brown as beans, brown as mole, brown as obsidian, brown as fertile soil under my bare feet, brown as my grandparents, brown as night, brown bronze race. They call me tight and think it is an insult, they don't know that my color is my bearing, that if my dark skin bothers them, it is because they have no identity or love for their land ”.
-Yalitza Aparicio
Mixtec-Triqui
(The Cloud People)
