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

TVLine

“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*tback but still argued with the network to use that word.”