MEXICO CITY: Tenoch Huerta, the first major Black superhero movie star in Hollywood, is leading a fight against racism on the screens of his country of origin, Mexico.
Huerta’s goal intends to use his celebrity status to discontinue the practice of Indigenous-origin Mexican actors being cast as robbers and villains.
Huerta joins a small club of international Mexican stars such as Salma Hayek, Gael Garcia Bernal, and Diego Luna when characterized the role of Namor the Sub-Mariner in Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,”.
Belongs to working-class suburb of Mexico City
Huerta who belongs to a working-class suburb of Mexico City has found his Hollywood career to be full of pitfalls.
“Like thousands of dark-skinned people, I’ve been called names” such as “dirty Indian,” he wrote in his new book “Orgullo Prieto” (Brown Pride).
“Mexico is a country that’s racist and denies it,” he added.
Huerta disclosed that the common belief Mexico today is a mixed-race country where skin color is unimportant.
Deny cultural, linguistic diversity
“This is how we deny the cultural and linguistic diversity of all Indigenous nations, Afro-descendant communities, Asians,” he wrote.
Huerta ” criticized the way of thinking “that places white, modern, Western, on a higher level.”
The Mexican artist lambasted the common viewpoint “that places white, modern, Western, on a higher level.”
Earlier, Huerta had taken up the role the drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quintero in the Netflix hit “Narcos: Mexico.” – APP/AFP
