'Sometimes I wish I was born Latino,' the 45-year-old actor/musician writes alongside a video of a Mexican man being surprised with a new truck gifted by his family.
- Feb 4, 2024
AceShowbiz - Tyrese Gibson came under fire over his recent social media post. The "Fast X" actor was dragged online after saying "sometimes" he wishes he was a Latino during Black History Month.
"Sometimes I wish I was born Latino," the 45-year-old kicked off his lengthy post alongside a video of a Mexican man being surprised with a new truck gifted by his family. "I mean the Latin community is grounded in family, loyal, entrepreneurs, businessman, and women literally represent the dream, the grind the hustle doing whatever it takes to stick together against all odds."
"If us is black culture was more grounded in these integral magical nuances of us we would be dominant," he added. "I've learned a lot from the Jewish community sticking together eating dinner every Friday together. I've learned a lot about the Muslim community throughout all my travels in the Middle East."
"They have a father structure where they honor their fathers the Middle East the thinking in the mentality is that they would much rather have a son over a daughter because they know that there is nothing like the leadership of a FATHER and a man being the head of the household," he continued. "I have no idea how we lost our way."
Tyrese went on to elaborate what he meant, "We can't get anything done and accomplished, as a fragmented culture…. insecure, threatened by each other m… Competitive towards our own race, killing ourselves every single day frivolously the majority of us is black men and the millions are locked up in prison." He then stressed, "Of course we ARE we are beyond powerful, influential and successful, but imagine if we all linked up like other communities have linked?"
"Poured and built up on each other Instead of moving like fragmented and dysfunctional…. We have what it TAKES to take over the WORLD!!!" he concluded. "We are nothing trying to do it ALONE!! Please chime in…. Would love to know your thoughts on this."
Many people, unfortunately, took issue with Tyrese's statements. One person in particular commented, "Dude, didn't you create TWO broken homes, talking about you wish you were Latino because they value family. Do YOU value family?"
"So writing a post demeaning your own people was the best you could come up with? The hypocrisy is staggering! How do you wish we would come together but you're bashing us??? Smfh," another argued. "The first day of Black History Month and you chose verbal violence. Do Better!!!!! You can praise this family without doing the very thing that you are claiming Black people do. You had a choice here and chose very, very wrong."
