Emmy-winning Journalist Rick Sanchez on the "Underappreciation of What Latinos Can Do" (Video)

"We're 20% of the population and are cast less than 4% of the time in movies," he shared, citing USC Annenberg's report, Hispanic and Latino Representation in Film: Erasure On Screen & Behind the Camera. "It's not representative of who we are in the country. And when they do cast as us, 37-40% of the time we're cast as a criminal. Another 20-30% of the time it's as a domestic worker. If that's how they paint us, that's what all people are going to think we are."

Speaking on the contributions that Hispanics and Latinx make in the U.S. and the skewed perception depicted in the news and media, Rick shared, "We are the fifth largest GDP in the world and the third-fastest-growing GDP, behind only China and India, and ahead of the United States. Eighty percent of Latinos are U.S. citizens and 95% of Latinos under the age of 41 speak English. These are facts and nobody knows them. Instead, they think we're just a bunch of guys jumping a fence or swimming in a river who got here last week and are just sitting around watching [TV]. It's really weird."

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