Gina Rodriguez

Gina Rodriguez (1984- ) was Jane of “Jane the Virgin” (2014-19) on US television. By 2018 she was already “a fifteen-time gold medalist in the Oppression Olympics” according to The Root. She is a Latina woman who avoids the word “Black” but not the N-word.

Some of her greatest hits – as of 17:38 GMT today:

July 2017: After hearing that Marvel was making a Black Panther film, she tweeted:

“Marvel and DC are killing it in inclusion and women but where are the Latinos?! Asking for a friend…”

As if Rosario Dawson and Zoe Saldana are Black but not Latina.

September 2018: When BlogXilla interviewed her and Yara Shahidi (pictured above):

BLOGXILLA (to Shahidi): You are just goals for so many young Black women –

RODRIGUEZ: So many women!

BLOGXILLA: – yeah, well for women too, but for Black women we need people on a whole ‘nother level …

All Lives Matter!

October 2018: She and America Ferrera held a Latina “power lunch” – seeming to invite only one Afro-Latina actress, Rosario Dawson:

November 2018: Rodriguez on pay in Hollywood:

“I get so petrified in this space talking about equal pay especially when you look at the intersectional aspect of it, right? Where white women get paid more than black women, black women get paid more than Asian women, Asian women get paid more than Latina women, and it’s like a very scary space to step into.”

Because you cannot be both Black and Latina. Because Sofia Vergara was not the highest paid actress on US television at the time.

January 2019: On “Sway in the Morning” she tearfully recounted:

“The black community was the only community I looked towards growing up. We didn’t have many Latino shows, and the black community made me feel like I was seen. To get [called] anti-black is [like] saying I’m anti-family. My father is dark-skinned, he’s Afro-Latino. My cousins — Puerto Ricans are African, Taino, and Spaniard, and it’s in my blood. So that was devastating to me. And I know my heart. I know what I meant. And I really wish we weren’t living in a culture where we’re clickbait, because I’ve never said anything controversial about anybody.”

Not admitting to doing anything wrong. After all, as she pointed out, it is not like Whites or Asians were upset with her.

Here she is with her “dark-skinned” father:

October 2019: Yesterday, the 15th, on Instagram she posted herself rapping with the Fugees song, “Ready or Not”, N-word and all:

“Believe me, niggas give me heebie-jeebies”

That was not well-received, given her history.

Her fauxpology:

“I am sorry if I offended anyone by singing along to The Fugees, to a song I love that I grew up on.”

The next day (today) she gave a better apology where she admitted it was wrong for her to use that word and said she would do better in future, but then said:

“I feel so deeply protective and responsible to the community of color but I have let this community down.”

avoiding the word “Black”.

– Abagond, 2019.

See also:

• applicable phenomena:
  • The N-word
  • erasure
  • Oppression Olympics
  • All Lives Matter
  • White fauxpology
  • the White club
• White Hispanics
  • Jennifer Esposito is not “White enough” – an Italian American who often plays Latina women on television
• Afro-Latinos
  • Rosario Dawson
  • Zoe Saldana
• Yara Shahidi
• Black Panther
• The Root
• in her blood:
  • African Diaspora
  • Tainos
  • The Spanish

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