WHAT?!?! I never knew this. brown-face? super yikes

… far from being a Latina of any type, was actually a Jewish woman. And not just a Jewish woman, but a fair-skinned one at that, who essentially played Vasquez in brown face, darkened up with make-up to match the tone of the character’s possibly Mexican melanin-tinted heritage.

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Dean Brooks

Adrienne Gibbs

Sep 25

WHAT?!?! I never knew this. brown-face? super yikes

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