14 Jul Jennifer Lopez representing

Jennifer Lopez representing 

I watched the Netflix special Halftime that follows Jennifer Lopez leading up to her all star performance at the Super Bowl.

Of course I had to watch because I love Jenny from the block. I started watching her when she first appeared as a fly girl on In Living Color. Being from the Bronx and Puerto Rican, I loved that a woman of color from my hometown was representing.

I have followed her career since that day. I love that she does it all, she’s a dancer, a singer, an actress and a producer. She is a powerhouse, superstar and a role model for all women. This show made me love her more, it showed how hard she works, and how human she is.

In doing the halftime show she wanted to say a message because she realized that she has a platform to do such. This is  the biggest platform in the world, The Super Bowl. She said she couldn’t live with herself if she didn’t speak up for what was going on in our country. She even stood up to the Super Bowl committee when they wanted the cages out of her performance and said no!

This is what is going on right here in our country, to immigrants just like her family once were and she was going to make a statement like it or not. 

Yes, you go Jenny from the block, represent! I respect her decision and her balls to do that. She knows how to fight for what she wants and deserves. When they told her she was nothing, that she was from the hood, she pursued her dream as a dancer. When they told her to stay in her lane that she wasn’t a singer, she showed them. When they said you’ll never be a actress, yeah hold my earrings

(Only true New Yorkers will get this reference) 

When they said a movie couldn’t be made by all women, she said well let me show you. She represents all women of color, all strong women that refused to give up or stay in their own lane.

So today my friends, remember she was just Jenny from the block, just like you or I but she believed in herself, she never let her dreams die and she kept fighting and boy, look at her now. This dream is possible for anyone, this is the American dream.

“Be the change you want to see”

@TreadmillTreats