A movie that made me laugh and made me proud for our Raza. Below is what USA Today had to say about the movie;
“Flamin’ Hot” is not the story of how Flamin’ Hot Cheetos came to be.
The film (streaming now on Hulu and Disney+) is an inspiring story about an underdog proving naysayers wrong, a Latino man who beat the odds stacked against him as he rose the ranks of corporate America in the ’80s.
“Flamin’ Hot,” directed by “Desperate Housewives” actress Eva Longoria, depicts Richard Montañez (played by Jesse Garcia) landing a job at Frito-Lay as a janitor to support his wife Judy (Annie Gonzalez) and their sons and going on to invent the iconic Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
Here’s what’s fact and what’s fiction in the new movie:
I will go with the version Montañez says is accurate. Why not? White people have been taking credit for what we do for centuries. As soon as the gueros landed in what is now Mexico, they started claiming that a few hundred of them had taken down the mighty Aztec Empire. It was all BS; they had the help of thousands of Native Americans who had a beef with the Aztecs.
What bothers me when some Spanish surname opinion writer decides to deride our Latino brothers and sisters? After that article, I quit the New York Times and only went back when they offered me a year subscription for $50.
How did that young Latino get his job with the New York Times, affirmative action? They went and found someone willing to criticize what our Raza does. Yale, when I graduated, the Valedictorian would get $100 and told not to waste his/her time going to college as there were no jobs in Corpus Christi for college-educated “Mexicans.” What was more common back then in Texas was what happened in Bishop, Texas.
Here is his opinion if one gets past the paywall. That young man needs to more research and more living before throwing his two cents and criticizing Raza. He probably is one of those first or second generation Mexicans.
The image is of my uncle, he was arrested seven times during the strike. Life was not and is not what Rivera thinks it is.
