Translated via google:
For the last 30 years Mana has supported and defended the rights of Latinos around the world. There is no business or promotion that is worth more than the dignity of our people. For this reason, today Mana decided to remove its collaboration with Nicky Jam from “head to toe” (Pies a Cabeza) from all digital platforms. From xmcustodio What caused this? The other day Donald “Con Man and Racist” Trump misgendered Nicky Jams, who endorsed him.
“Do you know Nicky? She’s hot. Where’s Nicky?” Trump said from the stage while looking off to the side for the “X” singer. A few moments later, the former president spotted the Latin star and quickly realized his mistake. “Oh, look, I’m glad he came up,” Trump said as he patted the musician’s shoulder.
Jam apparently didn’t give a hoot that Trump clearly didn’t know who he was, including whether he was male or female, but Jam is sure wearing that ugly MAGA hat.
Here’s Deadline article about this
What’s weird about this (Weird is the word for anyone that supports Trump, is that some years back, Jam supported Dreamers and Daca. ) Also, remember when Trump threw paper towels into the crowd after a hurricane hit Puerto Rico? Boggles my mind why Jam would throw away his credibility on trash that didn’t even know he was a male but wants to pander. That truly makes Jam someone who wants to work with a racist.
Jam must have been getting some heat from his endorsement of Trump (note that the *her* is intentional, since Trump called this MAN a “her” and Jam did not correct him. If he’s serious, he ought to come make a statement, otherwise, simply getting rid of a post will not get rid of the perception that he is a sellout.
Update: After Trump’s rally called Puerto Ricans a floating island of garbage, Nicky Jam removed his endorsement of Trump
Also, Mana said this when Trump said his awful bigoted spew on Mexicans in 2015. First, what Trump said,
“When do we beat Mexico at the border?” asked Trump. “They’re laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But they’re killing us economically.
The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems […] When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
That was bad enough. But then, Trump warmed up. “It’s coming from more than Mexico,” he added, excitedly. “It’s coming from all over South and Latin America, and it’s coming probably — probably — from the Middle East. But we don’t know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don’t know what’s happening. And it’s got to stop and it’s got to stop fast.”
Ugh. So Mano’s reply on this back in 2015
“He said we were trash, he said that the people who came from Latin America and Mexico are rapists, thugs and drug dealers,” said Olvera of the presidential hopeful, with palpable indignation. “We feel pity for this incompetent man. I have never heard a speech as violent, or as filled with hatred — not since Hitler.”
Side note on Mana. I had not heard the song Somos Mas Americanos but I agree. I remember a few years back when I heard the actual truth about the Alamo-book: “Forget the Alamo”
They already shouted me thousand times
That I must go back to my land
Because I couldn’t here
I want to remember the Yankee one
I didn’t cross the frontier
The frontier crossed me
America free nation
Men divided it
They painted the line
So that I could jump it and call me invasor
It’s a well marked mistake
They took eight states from us,
Who’s the invasor here?
I’m a foreigner on my own land
And I didn’t came here to give you war
I’m a working man
And if History doesn’t lie
Here sat in glory, the powerful nation
Between brave warriors, indigenous from two continents mixed with the Spaniard
We are more american
We are more american
Than the son of the Anglo-Saxons
We are more
We are more
We are more
We are more
