“My skin is respected”: Yalitza Aparicio speaks out against racism along with other celebrities

The actress is part of a growing movement whose objective is to put an end to the stereotypes that are handled in people with brown skin; Tenoch Huerta and Horacio García have also been proud of their roots

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Yalitza Aparicio , the Mexican actress nominated for the award Oscar for the movie “Roma” , has made use of her social networks to show herself as a spokesperson for a campaign against racism towards brown-skinned people, showing herself proud of her roots and accompanying the photograph that he published with the message “My skin respects itself, my skin sweats, my skin resonates, in my skin there is no doubt, my skin loves, my skin is pure flavor. We are not few, we are a shitload! ”

With the hashtags # FuerzaPrieto and #DondeHayPrietoHaySabrosura The initiative seeks to put an end to the stigmas and stereotypes that have existed in Mexico for decades; other celebrities who have made their position known on the subject are the actors Horacio García Rojas Y Tenoch Huerta , the latter known for spreading in interviews his open attack on the discrimination of which he has been a victim throughout throughout his career.

The movement began to gain strength as a result of the premiere in Youtube of the program “Extended version” , in which Huerta (accompanied by Pancho Parra and Estefanía Veloz ) starts talking of the personalities on Mexican television who have become famous by nicknames cent rados on his dark complexion, to later expose his own experiences and focus on “the latent racism that exists in society.”

hashtags have been widely accepted, especially in Twitter , where the campaign expands not only to the industry level cinematographic, but to a social conscience approach. A second video of “Extended version” showing an interview with the actor Luis Fernando Peña has accumulated in six days more than 10, 000 views.