Famed Mexican director, Alfonso Cuarón’s semi-autobiographical story about a year in the life of the maid that helped raise him and his siblings. Cuarón who won the Oscar for Best Director for his 2013 film, Gravity, addresses several timely issues in Roma, including race, class and idiot fathers. Without being too preachy, the film subtly confronts the raw truth of how dark-skinned indigenous people are discriminated and frequently consigned to an existence of servitude in Mexico, the United States and beyond. What I got most from the film was how easy it is to forget that these women, who often dedicate their existence to caring for other people’s families, actually have lives of their own. And those lives are often more difficult and tragic than we can imagine. For Roma, Cuarón is nominated for a record four Oscars and rightfully so. Roma is an unconventional film, but one I believe people will be talking about for years.
Next week, I will be speaking at a Hispanic Leadership Summit at the United Nations. I was asked to speak on the topic of Unity. The following is a preview of my speech.
The image of Latinos is not just a nice thought; it affects everything from business opportunities and access to capital to how our children are treated at school. Latinos are among the hardest workers and most entrepreneurial of any group in America. However, negativity has dominated the narrative about Latinos for far too long. This one is on us.
We currently have 11 million unfilled jobs in America. Ending illegal immigration will either dramatically increase that number and have massive disruption to our economy, or we will have to...