As an Mexican I freaking love Speedy Gonzalez as much as my family love the Fastest mouse in all of Mexico. To all the toxic sjw gringos who tried to cancel Speedy Gonzalez Marisol March 9, He was intelligent, witty, the fastest of them all and would always outsmart his rivals.
The sombreros? Many Mexicans wear them with pride every World Cup. Im Puerto Rican and dont mind at all. I think it was cute and accurate. Frederick Luis Aldama — a distinguished university professor at the Ohio State University who specializes in depictions of Latinx culture in film, television and other media — is also glad that Iglesias spoke up in defense of the character.
But does that mean that we obliterate him? No, what it means is that we educate and open discussions so that our kids can understand how stereotypes have existed and how they continue to exist so they can become a critically informed consumer. If we erase the past, how are we going to learn from the past and make it a better future? That helped them look past some of the aspects of the character and his larger world that were more crudely caricaturish at the time, and even more so today.
But there are some positives about the Speedy character we all saw growing up as Latinx kids with no representation out there. In the s, some of those grown kids were involved in a fan campaign to bring Speedy Gonzales back to the airwaves after Cartoon Network retired the cartoons. Since then, Warner Bros.
Meanwhile, Mexican superstar Eugenio Derbez is in the process of developing a Speedy Gonzales feature film that was originally announced in Aldama sees that kind of behind-the-mic change as a positive progression. I've talked about brown-voice minstrelsy and what it means for Latinx's to be the ones chosen for these roles. We're making change, and I'm of the position it's better to educate than to obliterate.
Created in by legendary animator Chuck Jones, the skunk's animated antics primarily involved his relentless pursuit of a female black cat named Penelope Pussycat, who strenuously dodged his advances. The film's original director, Terence Nance, conceived and shot a sequence where Jane the Virgin star Greice Santo confronts the skunk after he comes onto her in a bar, pouring her drink over his head and slapping him silly.
That entire encounter was cut from the film after Lee took over the film over a year ago. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly , Jones's daughter, Linda, said that she understood the studio's decision to scrap the scene. And I imagine it would have been very important for young Latinas to see in general. It's worth noting that the makers of A New Legacy have already taken the opportunity to transform at least one popular character: Bugs Bunny's teammate, and love interest, Lola Bunny.
Introduced in the original Space Jam , Lola has been given a makeover for the sequel that significantly tones down the exaggerated va-va-voom sexiness from her previous appearance. It just felt unnecessary, but at the same time there's a long history of that in cartoons. This is As Warner Bros. The studio didn't offer a definitive explanation for his exclusion, but New York Times writer Charles Blow suggested that the character had "added to rape culture.
Although there were many who supported Charles' take on the situation, there were also some people in the Latino community who rejected his argument. Although Gabriel clearly believes that cancel culture has gone too far in attempting to cancel Speedy, other Latinos acknowledged that the character's origins were steeped in racism. When he was first created, Speedy Gonzales was designed as an American stereotype of what Mexicans are like.
In spite of these racist stereotypes, though, there were some who came to see the mouse as an icon. I am the voice of Speedy Gonzales in the new Space Jam.
Sylvester is constantly outsmarted and humiliated by the clever, funny, little mouse. The machismo. The drip. Protect him! Indeed, because of the flood of support — from the community Speedy Gonzales is most meant to offend — the fastest mouse in Mexico just may outrun cancel culture once again.
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