I’m watching Domino tonight (hello!? Christopher Walken?!), and before I even started the damn DVD I’d prepared myself for the likelihood that by the time it was over I’d be ready to quit my job in order to pursue a career as a bounty hunter.

I still am, but I wasn’t expecting this:

Lateesha Rodriguez: Now, as a blactino woman, I believe we deserve our own race category to forge an identity, Jerry. That’s how I feel.
Jerry Springer: Did you just say “blactino”?
Lateesha Rodriguez: Yes, I did. I’m a blactino-American.
Chinegro Woman: Wow. Uh, first of all… first of all, you don’t even look latino. You look black. You’re… You’re black. Second of all, I’m of mixed race, and I’ve struggled my whole life as to whether I’m Chinese or whether I’m black.
Lateesha Rodriguez: Chinegro! What you are is chinegro!
Chinegro Woman: Chinegro?
Lateesha Rodriguez: Chinegro! There you go!
Chinegro Woman: Chinegro?
Lateesha Rodriguez: You are a chinegro!
Chinegro Woman: What the [bleep] is chinegro?
Lateesha Rodriguez: That’s what you are! Chinegro is you!
Chinegro Woman: That’s some bulls…
Jerry Springer: OK, as I understand it, you brought a mixed-race flow chart with you. Why don’t we bring that out?
[Crowd shouting and booing]
Lateesha Rodriguez: [to a random heckler] How you doin’, sugar? All right. I’m gonna call you later. Mwah. All right.
[Crowd laughs]
Lateesha Rodriguez: Take a look at this…
[she unveils the chart]
Lateesha Rodriguez: Blactino, blackasian, hispasian, OK? Now, for the Asian subcategories, [to the Chinegro woman]
Lateesha Rodriguez: I got you, sister. We have chinegro right here. That’s you. Chinegro.
Chinegro Woman: That’s not a word! That’s not a word!
Lateesha Rodriguez: Yes, it is, sister. We have koreagro. Japegro, OK?
[Crowd laughs]
Lateesha Rodriguez: Chispanic, koreaspanic, and last but not least, check this out, y’all… japanic.
[Crowd cheering]
Lateesha Rodriguez: That’s how I flow with it!
Jerry Springer: Do you believe the government should recognize these racial subgroups?
Lateesha Rodriguez: Yes, Jerry, I do.
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421054/quotes

Lord have mercy I didn’t see that coming and I nearly spat the brownie I was inhaling across the living room.

That’s some brilliant writing. Brilliant.

More about the real Domino Harvey here.