One. It should be noted that there are seven white rappers so somehow white rappers have outnumbered Latinos by that much on these covers. There are Latinos trying to bring more attention to the plight they face in this country through hip hop. Rapper Produkt, from Bronx did not get the XXL exposure and took to the grassroots model by getting one fan at a time. The results have been successful as he has been nominated for awards, reached over a million views on YouTube but he even still faces prejudice from whites and blacks. Produkt posted a video on Worldstar that received a lot of racist comments that even in the internet age is eye-raising. He is actually releasing an EP June 16th called “in·con·spic·u·ous”. The word “SPIC” is a slur but he is flipping it into a powerful acronym, Spanish, People, In, Control. In the EP’s self title song he addresses the same issues that plague black people including police brutality.
While the rate of police attacks is higher in blacks, it does not mean Latinos do no experience it either. What is different is the amount of coverage their attacks get. In a month’s time, three Mexican-Americans were killed , all unarmed. None of their names you will automatically know in the way you know Mike Brown and Freddie Gray. The result of providing a better life for your family appears to be death. After those killings the Mexican Foreign Ministry asked the U.S. Justice Department to step in. The media attention is clearly not the same when a Hispanic loses their life to an officer. Mediamatters.org was tracking these cases and said Fox News did not even cover any of the three murders once.
