Profile: Demetrius Dante Taylor Sánchez Jr.
In this episode of Radio Nepantla, Diana Romero interviews Demetrius Dante Taylor Sánchez Jr. Demetrius is the middle child with two sisters. His father’s family migrated to Las Vegas from Mississippi. His mother was born in Piedras Negras, Coahuila Mexico, and eventually moved to Arizona where both parents met.
We grew up with our Mexican side. We grew up with a complex we didn’t really know who we were not until we kind of got into middle school and we met more people who were black and they were like “No, your Black is beautiful, you know, yes you’re Latino but like people will see you as this and, like just know it’s beautiful.”
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