And as Puerto Rican writer Melissa Coss Aquino has written before in the beautiful essay “Hablando Por un Tubo y Siete Llaves or My Life Is Not a Stereotype, and Neither Am I, Though We Both Fit the Bill,” sanitizing our experiences to “uplift our people” in the eyes of white audiences is an act of “public relations” as opposed to art. She explains, “And art is not public relations.”
