Selena Gomez is speaking out against a racist joke from a comedian who was invited to speak at a recent Donald Trump rally. The actress reacted to Tony Hinchcliffe 's jokes about Puerto Rico being a " floating pile of garbage " ..
. telling Variety she "strongly disagreed with any comments that were made recently." Selena is Latina .
.. she was born in Texas and one side of her family is of Mexican descent .
.. and, she also told the outlet .
.. "I definitely want to stand by my people.
" The joke sparked a bunch of backlash among Puerto Ricans and the Latin community ...
even moving Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny to endorse Trump's opponent, Kamala Harris . Selena took time out of her "Emilia Pérez" movie premiere to talk politics ..
. the same week she posted a video of her returning her ballot as part of early voting in California..