How Can a García Not Speak Spanish?

Tami has heard the question her whole life. Black woman, Spanish last name, no Spanish. People decided that meant she wasn't really Dominican. In this episode, she tells her full heritage story for the first time, not as the host asking the questions, but as the one answering them.

This is a conversation about growing up disconnected from a Dominican and Jamaican heritage, what her grandmother's choice to leave New York cost the generations after her, what Howard University gave her, and how she built Ethiopian cultural connection for her daughter around a heritage that isn't originally her own.