We watched Jenifer Lopez as a Latino maid in Maid in Manhattan, Penelope Cruz in Bandidas as an uneducated bank robber, Salma Hayek in Fools Rush In where she plays the sultry girlfriend of Matthew Perry, in Desperado as a book café owner where she sells drugs as a side job at her place. John Leguizamo in Empire as a drug lord. In numerous films we watched Danny Trejo as an aggressive gangster like profiles where he enjoy killing people, latest one I can remember was Machete. And many more actors and actresses whom played roles as a prostitute, a gang member, a cartel member.
At one point we need to stop for a moment and ask ourselves what kind of messages we are sending the world.