Mostly of White Spanish Ancestry

And his paternal grandfather was a wealthy Colombian landowner, and Leguizamo's maternal lineage includes the 16th-century Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar, as well as Jerónimo Betuma, a 17th-century indigenous Colombian of noble birth.

So, how 'oppressed' and 'ethnic' Leguizamo actually is, is rather debatable...