AD Response to Gordon Sanchez, Editor at Large Gospel Coalition

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If you haven't seen it, I've been called out and I want to respond to it in this video. We are also praying for the people of Puerto Rico.

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We love Puerto Rico. And we also love Puerto Rico. I'll tell you what, yeah,

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I got called out by the editor at large of the Gospel Coalition. That's right. They normally don't talk about personalities.

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They normally don't call people out directly. That's against their winsome strategies. But I must have done something really wrong.

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In fact, not only was I called out, but I was challenged and I was asked a question. I want to show you what that question was.

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But here is Gordon Sanchez talking about yours truly. Mr. Robles, I really think that it is very, very serious to culturally appropriate if that is what you're doing.

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So if you are actually Latino and you are using that as a as sort of a place to stand that gives you credibility, right?

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We might need some evidence of that because it would be very damaging to the gospel if you would be appropriating.

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I agree. It would be very damaging to the gospel if I was pretending to be Puerto Rican, but instead I was

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Italian. That's what he said in this. He said I looked like I was from Italy. But anyway, I felt like maybe

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I should give some evidence. I mean, I say I'm Puerto Rican a lot. I'm Puerto Rican. I'm Puerto Rican. So you should listen to me because you should listen to your brown brothers and sisters in Christ.

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So you know what, Gordon? Here's some advice or here's some evidence, I should say. Number one piece of evidence.

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I currently own a Bronx jersey. Now, in case any of you guys don't know, like the

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Bronx is like the epicenter of Puerto Rican culture here in the United States. Maybe not the only one, but definitely a big one.

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This is straight out of that video, Uptown Baby. You know what I'm talking about? Lord Tariq and Peter Gunn's Deja Vu.

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So riddle me this, Gordon Sanchez. If I owned this Bronx jersey, if I wasn't

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Puerto Rican, how could I own this Bronx jersey? Furthermore, I was thinking, how else can I prove it? You know, the Bronx jersey, it convinces a lot of people, but maybe not won't convince everyone.

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Maybe you haven't seen that video, Uptown Baby. But if you haven't,

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I thought I've got an ironclad way to prove it. Ironclad. I am currently, like a lot of people, kind of looking at my inventory of food because, you know, there might be a reason for me to know exactly how much food

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I have in my house over the next month or two. And so I've been inventorying things, just seeing how much, you know, food we have.

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And I came across a few items that I think, without a doubt, without one iota of doubt,

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Gordon Sanchez proved my Puerto Rican ethnicity. The first thing is a bunch of Goya products.

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As you can see here, we've got Adobo. You like, how do you like that pronunciation? Adobo. This is an all -purpose seasoning.

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You can even put this in tuna fish when you're making it. And it tastes really, really good. You can put it on chicken, fish, anything.

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This is proof, absolute ironclad proof that I'm Puerto Rican. I also have here pique. This is a hot sauce,

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Goya hot sauce. There's also here, we've got some arroz. Arroz. Good for arroz con pollo.

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Some people know it as rice, but this is medium grain rice. Most of the rice you get in the stores, especially if you're a white man, is long grain rice.

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Here we got some medium grain rice. This is good stuff. Last thing in the Goya category,

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I've got here some sazon. Now, sazon, if you're Puerto Rican, you know this is used on a lot of different things.

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It's used in pork and all kinds of other dishes, beans, things like that. What I find funny about the ingredients of sazon, in case you didn't know this, it's not really that good for you.

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Number one ingredient, MSG. Now you might say, well, yeah, you know, you could just go to the store and buy those products.

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So this doesn't prove anything. Well, I have here a plastic container of homemade sofrito.

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This is the base of any Puerto Rican dish. And if this doesn't prove it, I don't know what will.

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But you know, you say, hey, hey, you know, that's not enough. I need more. I need more. Well, I've got more for you, buddy.

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Here we go. We've got some cafe bustelo. I did stock up on this because I wanted to make sure to have enough coffee in the corona epidemic.

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And so I bought some cafe bustelo, just like any good Puerto Rican would. Also, I've got another Puerto Rican staple, taco shells and taco seasoning.

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Also to go along with it, Valentina hot sauce has come straight from Aldi.

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You might say, well, that's Mexican, Adam. That's not Puerto Rican. Well, little known fact, Puerto Ricans also enjoy

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Mexican food. And so there you go. I think this proves my Puerto Rican heritage.

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One more thing. I've got some sauerkraut. How did that get in there? We're making sausages.

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I thought you were going to watch a video. Well, yeah, an instructional video on how to make your own sausages.

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Anyway, I think that this beyond all doubt proves that I am, in fact, Puerto Rican.

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But Gordon Sanchez, a little later in this video, you use a term that I have to say was quite offensive and I wanted to bring attention to it.

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Somebody else's culture. So look for that article on how lousy the movie I still believe was.

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And, you know, and then and hopefully sometime in the next week, I'm also going to write a follow up piece to Gospel Elements in This Is Us.

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So, yeah, Gordon out. Now throw it out there to Mr. Robes or Robless, whatever his name actually is.

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Sir, if you really are Latino, then there it is right there. Listen, that is an unacceptable term,

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Gordon Sanchez. We don't call ourselves Latinos. We call ourselves Latinx, Latinx, Latinx, something like that.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, that you're gendering me and I don't I don't really appreciate that Gordon Sanchez ad out.

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Anyway, seriously, you should really subscribe to the Gordon Sanchez YouTube channel. It is fantastic and I'm looking forward to the next video.