Promised Land creator: Why we used a racial slur for Latinos in this week's episode

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“That was America in 1987, and sadly, it’s still America today,” creator and showrunner Matt Lopez tells TVLine. “It was just more out in the open in 1987. I found myself in the unusual position of being a person who, in my lifetime, has been called a w**back but still argued with the network to use that word.”