Originally Posted by
Technopriest
I like her because, just like Roberto, she represented something very uncommon in American comics, someone who was not the stereotypical representation of a Latin person. Black Latin people are incredibly underrepresented in media, they are basically invisible, and it opens the door for people to understand that cultural heritage is not just one thing. I'm my case for example, people here have a really hard time trying to pigeonhole me into a category. Yes, I come from Latin America, but I am also 6"3' and light skinned, so I am obviously also not what people think of the stereotypical Latin person (and then you have the racists who say that I should just identify as Italian as is what I look like, but that is a whole other can of worms).