“Ask A Chola” made several ludicrous assertions about herself. Namely, she states, “I am Aztlan. I am Mexican,” when the reality is that she is white. Chloe Michalopoulos is a white woman who lives in an expensive loft in the gentrified section of Santa Ana. She was educated at Berkeley, UCLA and Harvard, and she thinks it’s perfectly acceptable to capitalize off of a particularly vitriolic form of brown face. What she cannot accept is being questioned. In other words, she’s a complete bigot. i have it on very good authority that she is greek-american, is the wealthy daughter of a prominent academic, has spent a lot of time in mexico and south america picking up slang, and lives in the gentrified part of santa ana — where mexicans and chicanos used to lives, and is now populated by whites.

This is how postmodernism goes really wrong. You can not just take on any identity without a real stake in what it means to be in that skin with all the negative and positives that come with it. I see the complexity and desire to use performance as a way to challenge truths you might not be able to do from your own body but:

Black face, brown face, yellow face. Cholas can speak for themselves. Appropriation of culture without any respect for history is lame and is exactly what it looks like. A cheap imitation.