Annotations for People: Ramos-george

I know that at the "LA Times," it's something that I have raised for about the last, oh, I'd say about at least five or six years. Am I a reporter who happens to be a Latino, or am I a Latino who happens to be a reporter? I don't think there's a right or wrong answer, but how you answer the question says a lot about how you look at news and whether or not you take news seriously. I happen to be a Latino who happens to be a reporter because they don't pay me to be a Latino. I'm that coming in. So when I look at a story --

I was born that way. I'm sorry, but that's a good way to put it. I have a unique perspective, and when I look at something, the editors know that that's how I'm going to look at it, that I -- Hopefully, I'm professional, but my eyes happen to be brown. They're not blue or hazel or something else.