A couple of weeks ago I was invited to be part of a panel that would preview and comment Soledad Bravo's effort, "Latino In America" #LIA. What you see here in the product of my appearance.

As I was sitting in an empty camera room, watching the video, I actually was amused, outraged, annoyed and moved to tears by what I was watching. To me that means that Soledad and her team did an awfully good job at trying to stir people's emotions and minds about the subject in question.

No, I wouldn't give them an A or even A- for their work. Even though their effort is certainly extraordinary --like the very quiet shout out they give to afroLatinos with the Garcia family with the 2 teenage boys-- CNN needed to give the topic at least 8 if not 12 hours in order to just cover the basics. I find it a failure on their part to dedicate less than a couple of minutes to Puerto Rico's colonial/commonwealth status.

That said, I think it is a good start.

I just wish my panel had gotten TV time. I had the opportunity to smack CNN's Latino Hipocrisy and Lou Dobbs without naming them and to riff on my well known take on what it is to be Latin American and Latino.

I think it's quite an achievement given others have gotten censured by CNN in their efforts to call them out on their support of that biggot called Lou Dobbs.

Anyhow, let me know what you think