{"id":17945,"date":"2015-11-06T20:23:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T20:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlines.madeostudio.com\/article\/zoe-saldana-xenophobes-only-true-american-here-native-american\/"},"modified":"2015-11-06T20:23:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T20:23:05","slug":"zoe-saldana-xenophobes-only-true-american-here-native-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/article\/zoe-saldana-xenophobes-only-true-american-here-native-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Saldana to Xenophobes: \u201cThe Only True American Here is the Native American\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zoe Saldana to Xenophobes: \u201cThe Only True American Here is the Native American\u201d<\/h3>\n

\n By Kenrya Rankin<\/span> Nov 06, 2015<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Zoe Saldana covers the December 2015\/January 2016 issue of Latina<\/a> magazine, and the Dominican actress had lots to say about xenophobia and the immigration debate currently ruling the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n

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The only true American here is the Native American. Everyone else is a transplant. \u2026This topic of immigration hurts because I don\u2019t want to be angry anymore. I don\u2019t believe that what anybody else is saying is true about me or my people. I\u2019m kind of embarrassed when you see all of these people talking on national television, and it\u2019s like, \u201cOh my God, if your grandfather were alive today, when he came here from Ireland, from Italy, escaped the f**king war in Russia. You\u2019re rotting his name to shame. It doesn\u2019t matter how much money you have, or how many degrees from Ivy League schools. You\u2019re such a bigot. You\u2019re such a hick right now.\u201d People have to be open to the reality of what\u2019s happening in our country.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t kill us. You can\u2019t send us back. We are millions and millions here because it is our time to migrate. We are the youngest culture. We are doing what your people did. So shut up and just deal with it. …If anything, I want to give them a hug, and say, \u201cIt\u2019s okay. It\u2019s new. Don\u2019t be scared. We\u2019re great people. We\u2019re gonna do great and better things for your country. Trust me.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the full interview on Latina\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n

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The actress had lots to say about the current immigration debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_gspb_post_css":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[16402,16412,6952,16414,16225,16376],"article-type":[],"topic-meta":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17945"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=17945"},{"taxonomy":"topic-meta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-meta?post=17945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}