Lateesha Rodriguez Quotes in Domino (2005)

Lateesha Rodriguez: Now, as a blactino woman, I believe we deserve our own race category to forge an identity, Jerry. That's how I feel.

Jerry Springer: Did you just say "blactino"?

Lateesha Rodriguez: Yes, I did. I'm a blactino-American.

Chinegro Woman: Wow. Uh, first of all... first of all, you don't even look latino. You look black. You're... You're black. Second of all, I'm of mixed race, and I've struggled my whole life as to whether I'm Chinese or whether I'm black.

Lateesha Rodriguez: Chinegro! What you are is chinegro!

Chinegro Woman: Chinegro?

Lateesha Rodriguez: Chinegro! There you go!

Chinegro Woman: Chinegro?

Lateesha Rodriguez: You are a chinegro!

Chinegro Woman: What the

[bleep]

Chinegro Woman: is chinegro?

Lateesha Rodriguez: That's what you are! Chinegro is you!

Chinegro Woman: That's some bulls...

[bleep]

Chinegro Woman: .

Jerry Springer: OK, as I understand it, you brought a mixed-race flow chart with you. Why don't we bring that out?

[Crowd shouting and booing]

Lateesha Rodriguez: [to a random heckler] How you doin', sugar? All right. I'm gonna call you later. Mwah. All right.

[Crowd laughs]

Lateesha Rodriguez: Take a look at this...

[she unveils the chart]

Lateesha Rodriguez: Blactino, blackasian, hispasian, OK? Now, for the Asian subcategories,

[to the Chinegro woman]

Lateesha Rodriguez: I got you, sister. We have chinegro right here. That's you. Chinegro.

Chinegro Woman: That's not a word! That's not a word!

Lateesha Rodriguez: Yes, it is, sister. We have koreagro. Japegro, OK?

[Crowd laughs]

Lateesha Rodriguez: Chispanic, koreaspanic, and last but not least, check this out, y'all... japanic.

[Crowd cheering]

Lateesha Rodriguez: That's how I flow with it!

Jerry Springer: Do you believe the government should recognise these racial subgroups?

Lateesha Rodriguez: Yes, Jerry, I do.

Claremont Williams: Why would you use Jerry Springer as a platform for some kind of progressive race modification proposal, anyway?

Lateesha Rodriguez: Well, I don't think Ted Koppel would book Lateesha Rodriguez!

Lateesha Rodriguez: All right, y'all, Lateesha done... Lateesha done dug herself a deep hole, and, uh, she can't get out by herself. Can y'all dig what I'm saying?

Raul: Mija, we're in a hole together. We dig together. We're a team.