"American Dirt" author on why awareness of immigrants' struggles is so important
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- Oprah Winfrey revealed her latest book club selection is “American Dirt” by Jeanine Cummins. The book is receiving acclaim for its powerful portrayal of a migrant’s journey across the border to the U.S. Cummins and Winfrey join “CBS This Morning” to talk about the novel.
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As a Mexican who lives in Mexico, who has lived here almost his entire life, who has a sister that has worked and talked to child sicarios in juvie and has come home with their heat-wrenching stories, I can say that this book is by no means inaccurate. I understand the criticisms regarding the severe lack of Latin voices in the publishing industry. However, that is not Cummins’s fault. She told a story, and she clearly came from a place of empathy. She shone a spotlight on an issue that doesn’t get discussed enough.
Should there be more Latin representation? Absolutely. Should we propel more stories like this but written by actual immigrants? Definitely. Should American Dirt have to pay for the decades, and still ongoing, misrepresentation of Hispanics? In my opinion, no.
"I believe everyone involved in this book had the best of intentions, but as Cummins would no doubt write, the road to el infierno is paved with buenas intenciones." - Luis Carrasco
I believe everyone involved intended to profit off of sensationalized propaganda; a fictional story that portrays the fantastical idea, that the vast majority of immigrants from south of the border
flee terror to come to the U.S.
It's intended purpose, the same as all liberal propaganda; to soften the hearts of the do gooder in people. To illicit a strong desire to signal their virtue to everyone around them. Hinder their ability to think critically for a long enough period to realize the demographic cultural fracture that's tearing their country apart. To keep hidden the realization their unified nation was relegated to an empire of two warring factions. Make heritage Americans feel empathy for other cultures while living in apathy to the degradation of their own. Anything to keep American Boomers slumbering long enough to realize; the only legacy they left their people was a fractured nation where only multinational corporations, the super rich, and poor foreigners looking to enrich their lives stand to gain. All for a fat 401k and the illusion of a good conscience.
Well, I did read the book and it IS a great book. Loved it from the very beginning. Anyone should be able to write about anything. Btw, I am Colombian, I am an immigrant and I do not feel offended. Cheers.
So good to hear 👍🏼
No matter what the criticism, this book brought me into a world that I hadn't known really existed and opened my horizons to a better understanding of what is really going on for the immigrants trying to reach freedom... People - there is no such thing as an illegal human being!
Me too. Lovely book!
They can all go live with Oprah
Trump lost, lol
How do i send a personal comment
Oprah covered up for Harvey Weinstein.
Source? Or is that just a lie?
But pulls out of the Russell Simmons deal
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Aaaaaand???
U Need a cookie?!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Didn’t she have 50,000 st. ft house, maybe even more than 1? She also talks about the saving the planet and yet continue to live in such large homes. Can even imagine water, electricity consumption there.
L s well she can fit several illegals there right?
Who cares, it's her money
I personally don’t. But she has the ability to host many of the refugees. Or it is as always- do what I say but don’t do what I do?
She'd like us to have and use less so she can have more.
You got it! Do what I say but don’t do what I do.
Where are they coming to California ➡️the streets of California ❓ you pay for them not us. You got the 💰
Y’all couldn’t find actual immigrants to write their real life experiences?
My privilege would make me ..... Where did your privilege go?
What about the very middle class of the country..."
They care about everyone and everything else except the middle class of America !!!
Fucken amazing
@English To badini
What ?!!
@D. R. lol
You’ve never read stories about middle class American struggles. What alternative universe do you live in?
I read the book and enjoyed it. It’s not factual, it’s fiction? Why do people politicise everything? Just enjoy the story.
As a 1%er Oprah sure does understand the plight of the lower-class citizen ha ha.
Well she was born poorer than the average American so she definitely has some idea of what it's like to be poor.
@@thebougiewinechick1869 not anymore
@@bart234465 You never forget the circumstances she grew up in.
@@bart234465 Because she worked her way up. That should be admired.
She's Running Scared this old Boomer has a shelf life that's past due she's ready for friendly Acres of the Aged the gate has opened and we're waiting for you Oprah ta' leave the stage.
Oprah is a good mami. Glad she pulled out of that documentary 50 cent called her out on.
I know this will be shocking to hear...
but Americans struggle as well.
HilarityBribo that doesn’t fit the Democrats agenda. Our poor people are not poor enough. Illegals are the new blacks.
Yeah But Americans homeless aren't as virtuous as Foreign nationals.
I came here spoke and got Americans homes and donated to a clinic what u did for ur own land
@Black American simp
@@bngr_bngr yeah, the party with members that wants to expand healthcare to everyone doesnt care about the poor. You're an idiot.
Jeanine cummins came to my victimology class to talk about her book a rip in heaven
It's a great novel. I have a new found respect for migrants. Cummins is a great writer.
The ending is an anticlimax. As a thriller it fails so thoroughly.
Isn't Opah's girlfriend Gayle King also on CBS? Conflict of interest. I think she stole her morning show job from a hard working immigrant...
The struggle of the future Democratic voters.
The Polity of Beasts is the only real novel about the "American experience"
We all need to have humanity and the courage to listen, before we judge others. Be kind😇
I have no problem judging people who break the law and come to my country ILLEGALLY.
@@DR-mq1vn In that case, go talk to a Native American about illegals invading your land
@@thebravesoul the natives have better lives now than they would have if the colonizers not invaded
The dislikes tend to disagree with you Oprah!
the number of readers tend to disagree with the dislikes
There is no such thing really as a rich immigrant in a struggle.. everyones grand parents had hard times getting to America🙄🤷. that is why it is a dream for many to better themselves...
Agreed!💙
derty QWERTY not every immigrant is poor. Most are middle class.
@@bngr_bngr Whats your point, since he didnt say Immigrants are poor, just that every Immigrant comes to America to live better...
Truth maybe reread the comment.
That a bit of an oversimplification of immigration. My dad is Cuban, my grandparents came to the US from Cuba in the 1960’s- height of the Cold War and America let them in to stick it to Communism.
Most of the people who came were doctors, lawyers, business owners, people who were well off. They escaped for political reasons. So yeah, many times immigrants struggle financially, but that’s not always the case.
Definitely there is a desire for a better life or different opportunities, which may or may not actually happen in the US, because the US is a dumpster fire ... but that’s beside the point 😅 immigration is complex.
Ironic that this book speaks about a Mexican person and there isn't a single Mexican person sitting in the table discussing the book. Lol #epicfail
last time I checked you don't need to be the same race as someone to talk about them.
TheBlueDragon15 Nope, but you do to have to write from THEIR POV.
Silvia Manrique I was referring to the group of people talking about the book, not the author
Awareness of American struggles don’t matter right left?
When was this said?
Oprahs rich why doesnt she take care of them?
Why don't you write your own book? In this United States of America you have the freedom to write a book and have it published, and have it advertised, and do tours, sign your book, etc. Just like any other writer. I don't understand your question!
Hans. You're probably an immigrant cause you're name doesn't sound very American 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Agatha Poirot. It's not her story to tell. It's ok for a white lady to write about a mexican woman that migrated here, but if the lady was writing about a black woman who migrated here the narrative would be different.
It is important for immigrants to struggle.....so stop helping them.
No help for Trump's wife?
Did you read this book or nahhh?
A focus on the troubles of immigration rather than focus on the reason people are forced to immigrate.
Blah blah blah.
Illegal migrants or legal
both. cant really put a law to an imaginary line can ya?
Did you know the population of California is larger than the entire country of Canada and state of Alaska combined....the United States is overpopulated
Did you know that if you combine milk with chocolate, you get chocolate milk.
Did you know that most of Canada and Alaska are uninhabitable?
But why were their countries doing so bad in the first place?
And wouldn't this just make it worse?
Foreign influence
Why? Why? Why? Why do we have a Deranged Lunatic as POUTS? Why? It's called People making horrible choices: greed, stupidity, ignorance.
@@agathapoirot5373 Orange man bad?
How does a fake story or fictional tell the real story?
Bc it happens 🤣
Great Book!!!!
Trump 2020
Godzilla 2021
@@steppenwolf3252 Jesus 3000
There is the real AMERICAN DIRT: Deranged, Dishonest D. He'll grab your wife's P ... and you will just be another sycophant and kiss ....A Disgusting! And you probably call yourself a Christian!
What possessed this woman ... to write a book about something she knows nothing about?!
We need to pay less attention to these white women writing books with “good intentions”and white saviour complex ... and instead actually read accounts of actual immigrants’ experiences?
My parents are immigrants, I grew up in Southern California with 90% of my friends being children of immigrants as well. That was and is just our reality! It was strange for me to meet people who’s parents were not from somewhere else.
I’m sure the book isn’t that bad ... but this is still disgusting and depressing ... we don’t need more white people telling our stories!!!!
The truth is that most migrants cannot write as skillfully and as evocative as cummins can. Why cant she research that world and write a damn good book about it?
More children starve to death in the USA than the year before, for more than 15 years. SHOULD CHILDREN NOT BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN OUTSIDERS?
I hate how they keep interrupting her. She barely got to finish a sentence.
Being a novel seems to have escaped the bloodthirsty anti-social media types who sunk poison talons into the author and her book.
Oprah and Gayle king need to hire a crisis PR firm quick.
Poor Jeanine Cummins had to cancel her book tour due to threats of violence from nameless trolls protesting her book. Evidently since she is not a migrant herself, she shouldn't be allowed to write a fictional story about it, and certainly not a successful book. That's just not fair to all of the migrants. From the NPR.com website, Publisher Bob Miller states: "We should never have claimed that it was a novel that defined the migrant experience; we should not have said that Jeanine's husband was an undocumented immigrant while not specifying that he was from Ireland; we should not have had a centerpiece at our bookseller dinner last May that replicated the book jacket so tastelessly. We can now see how insensitive those and other decisions were, and we regret them.". Also from NPR.com "...critics have called the book inaccurate and full of harmful stereotypes, and questioned whether Cummins was the right person to tell that story." Just another instance of caving to the leftist mob. Let me get this straight, a publisher and author receive threats over their FICTIONAL novel, and then they are compelled to APOLOGIZE???? Just another instance of caving to the angry mob. A talented woman writes a terrific FICTIONAL novel (according to Oprah, I have not read it), about the migrant experience, but we tear her and the book down because she is not authentic enough? that there were some "insensitive" decisions in the rollout (well that sure is subjective, isn't it)? and writers should never include "harmful stereotypes" in their novels (again, subjective)? and the barbed wire on the book jacket was insensitive? This is scary people. Now, on the other hand, this could all be a ploy by the Publisher to sell more books, because rather than an "angry mob" it is probably just a dozen twitter trolls living in their parents basement.
Nikki Manaj knows her own brother, too. Does that mean she's complicit also? Or y'all just pick and choose who you deem guilty?
i dug it
Impatient bunch!
Go get it. amzn.to/2ZYQvHq
It saddens me to read all the comments about how this woman, whom has EARNED the right to write about whatever makes her heart come alive, is viewed as UNWORTHY to write on our people because she is not Mexican. Since when is being Spanish not part of our heritage? Since when do we as a people that claim to have such a vast array of fundamentals in our culture that make us so much a part of the building of this nation, have the right to dictate, as if we were a dictatorship, whom is ALLOWED the right to write on this topic or that topic? It is this divisive nature in ourselves that will continue to tear apart this nation when we're quicker to judge and throw stones, instead of opening up our minds that one doesn't have to be Mexican to write about something they have taken the initiative on which to self educate. I'm proud of the writings of this woman who's own past is not far from this story she has written. So thank you Mrs. Cummins for this beautiful portrayal of what some people endure in order to build a more safe, stable, and healthy environment in which to raise their families.
Did she really read it? Did it really change her? #Questionable2020
I am still trying to wrap my head around and the title. Who is the dirt? 🤔
The word dirt is not being applied to any person it's just another word for land like American land
It means American soil.
I think you have to read the book in order to find out.
Terrible view of immigration
Two little bubbles,, celebrating their little bubbles.
This didn't age well. 😕
What?
GREAT book selection Oprah
I m gonna buy .❤️❤️
I don't care and neither should you.
Oprah needs the peace of Jesus Into her life
👏👏👏👏👌👍
Ms. Cummins have all the bragging rights. Well done
Her tour is canceled, apparently due security concerns. I don’t see any comments supporting that theory... Just publicity
Hope it helps to sell a books, (not my favorite) and I hope in the future, she can do a real research, not a google and Netflix research.
✌🏼
Their journey and ILLEGAL ENTRY
"American Dirt" The Life of Donald Trump and his family
But Trump was born here?
@@iReadFiction many of his relatives were not born in the USA including his mother and his wife 🤷♀️
@@naeidy And that involves Donald Trump himself how?
Pro Hint: It doesn't.
@@iReadFiction 🤦♀️
Starting with the title, the book is offensive.
Lol why?
Why exactly?
@@serinadean9019 Are you dirt?
@@stevenwilliambaylessparks3730 American 'dirt' just means American soil. In the book, Mexico as a land is also referred to as Mexican dirt
@@serinadean9019 There are no neutral words; sensitive, intelligent writers are aware of that; no word has just one meaning; connotation is important; furthermore, as you know, many Latin Americans feel that the US has appropriated the word America; in Latin America, América refers to North, Central, and South America, or exclusively to Hispanic America, as in the poetic phrase, Nuestra América. Even in Canada, when one says, I am an American, they respond, I am too. The author seems to be superficially acquainted with the history and culture of those she wishes to portray.
Yeah yeah this problem has been going on since the 1800s 😂 or more
I’m down with these folks writing and reading immigrant stories but why not invite actual immigrants to your table…since you are so interested in the immigrant story?
Why is this even considered news? My God!!!
The book is terrific, period.
Ugh.
OPRAH, YOU ARE AND ALWAYS WILL BE MY FAVORITE ❤️👁️🧠💋💘
It’s easy to confuse a Demorat
what is a demorat? I think you are the confused.
Another opportunist jumping on the PC bandwagon.
I don't read books, but I'm tired of people complaining about nothing. If you don't like the book, don't buy. What is making you angry, that the author is telling her view, or because it was written by an American?
If you dont read books then what are you even doing here?! You haven't even read the book to see what some people have a problem with. And no one cares that she is American! Most of the Latinx who spoke out against the book have been American.
@@thebee9853 I heard the comment on TV. The same way no one cares she's American, I don't care about illegal immigrants invading this country and then complaining.
@@Abrilpara2 What illegal immigrants are complaining?! All but one of the latinx who called her out have been American.
@@thebee9853 you people doing death threats if the book is released. That says a lot of you guys.
Goodbye Oprah goodbye Gayle curtain down lights are turned off leave the stage. S n o o p 50 Cent for president
Horrible
I think we are aware of immigrant struggles but these Latin American countries must fix their own problems and come here through the system. There are 100K + jobs open for them to apply for legally.
its called geopolitics. there’s a reason why these countries are broken. too easy for you to judge
Carla Zinn Rigger. Another fucken idiot who knows nothing about Latin American countries.
Gross...
boring book
That b**** will one day meet her maker
chuco town No content and no subscribers means the you are a PAID PROPAGANDA SITE!!!!
So happy to see all these comments about this being about ILLEGAL immigrants. Glad we all agree that people should come to the USA legally, or not at all. Why is that so hard for people to understand?
native americans had this illegal immigration issue 1st guess history is just repeating itself
@@askformyname.4599 Uh, no. Native Americans did not form a country.
Donut - your response couldn’t be any stupider
@@askformyname.4599 😆 Agreed. Its so hard to be ignorant with the internet, gotta really try lol
Another swing and a miss by Oprah, playing the role of savior to this poser author.
Do not care about there struggles at all, only Americans struggle matter!
That book premise is odd. The author wrote about Mexican migrants fleeing to America but Mexicans are not fleeing to the US the way she describes I dont think Mexicans have migrated at all in the last 15 years . Central Americans and South Americans are the ones crossing in masses something Mexicans never did. But i guess since the author is white she didnt do her homework and probably considers all of latinos Mexican which is completely inaccurate and ignorant. Why a white women would choose to write a fictional story on a country and culture and political issues affecting immigration when she has zero ties to it is beyond me, probably just to take advantage of a hot topic in the US and make some serious cash. Thank you Oprah for endorsing a ignorant authors ambitious book and that makes you Oprah ignorant and ambitious too.
T hi is is the best response so far! Why a made up story? why a white lady when there are many real immigrants with true stories. I don’t need to do research;I am the research. I wonder if I write a book Oprah will endorsement, but wait, I am not white. I am not a writer. I am just a Mexican who came here illegally and paid my price for it. I paid the price for such although I was an 11 year old who knew nothing about laws but hey I was expected to do otherwise. I paid the price for it and so did my family. Wait for my book.
the rachel dolezal of amerian 'literature'
Build the wall! 😁
Trump 2020