Lucecita, 1973
“I am not a puppet, I never wanted to be that but they [the television industry] wanted to erase the blackness that is part of me. They forgot that my father was black. They wanted to refine my nose. They demanded a white Lucecita, who would fill up their requirements. I felt bad but accepted. They told me that it was going to be better for me and I believed them. But the day they took away my Afro, I cried and cired… I still remember and it hurts.”
(Yeidy Rivero, Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television.)
(original quote from García Ramis, “La transformación.”)
Forever Black Effusion 