John Leguizamo is one of the most well know latin actor and comedian in USA. A stronghold over the years and much loved. He is also not afraid of speaking out and he has called for Latino unity with the #BlackLivesMatter movement and also called Latinos to speak out and help themselves.

On Tuesday he was speaking with Remezcla about his newest film “The Infiltrator.” However during the interview he spent some time talking about the current situation around the BLM movement and recent deaths of unarmed black men. He said:

We’re not strangers to Black Lives Matter. How many people are being abused by border patrol? How much horrible abuse is not being filmed because people don’t have access to iPhones? There’s a lot of abuse going on and brown lives matter, too. And we’ve gotta do our part. We’ve gotta do our social media part, people need to protest, you need to call government officials, write letters. We’ve gotta do everything to help our black brothers and sisters, and also speak up for ourselves. Latin people are the most bullied people in this country right now.

It’s the minority that’s the most bullied in schools, and there’s a huge amount of violence being perpetrated on our kids. And it’s a tragedy and it shouldn’t be happening, and it really hurts me as an American.

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Latinos are not exactly separate to African Americans, many face similar discrimination and also history with millions of Afro latinos in this world.

Solidarity and mutual support is certainly good for everyone!

What do you think?