These days so many people are hung on race while seemingly not even knowing what it is.
It seems as though haters use every avenue they can to attack Cardi B and her recently defending herself against those questioning her race all because of Gina Rodriguez’s recent scandal is the perfect example. Last week, Jane the Virgin actress Gina Rodriguez posted an Instagram story of her singing along to “Ready or Not” by the Fugees. Rodriguez, who allegedly aims to fight for inclusivity in Hollywood, looked to the camera and iterated “n***a” while singing Lauryn Hill’s lyrics, instead of censoring herself. While we can all agree the song will always be a smash, what people can’t seem to agree on is who can and can’t say the “n***a.”
Ironically, most people who started the “outrage” against Rodriguez claimed it was due to her previous statements that made others feel she was “anti-black,” not so much her origins…somehow, once the internet fully got a hold it purely turned into a race war. After the Rodriguez debacle, the argument of who gets a pass — which seems to come up every few months — was once again on the table. In this discussion, those who try to throw her name up in everything, brought up the Bronx superstar’s use of the word came into question. Multiple twitter users expressed their thought that if the rapper, who is of Dominican and Trinidadian descent and identifies as Black, can say it, then so can Rodriguez.
Here we go again with the N Word double standard.
If Cardi B can say it, Gina Rodriguez can!
Full video in BIOhttps://t.co/DWsYAmtlqW pic.twitter.com/qWrlrQBfcp
— Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) October 17, 2019
cardi b isn’t black and says the n word all the time & nobody says anything yal r mad inconsistent
— adanna duru (@adannaduru) October 16, 2019
How come some Hispanic people can say the N word … and others can’t ? It confuses me ! If you are gonna have outrage at Gina Rodriguez…what about Cardi B and other that get a pass ? #ginarodriguez
— YT MsDebDeb (@themsdebdeb) October 15, 2019
May other users took to the app to defend Bardi, saying the two instances are not the same because while the Bronx native embraces Black culture, the actress (Rodriguez) silences Black voices to interject about Latinx people. The star herself eventually intervened, asking the Twitter user what it means to “act like a Black woman.” When an old video of Bardi resurfaced, in which she talks about loving herself as a Black woman, she continued by saying she’s always claimed her Blackness but it’s “always a L.”
Is cardi not a Dominican Trinidadian woman from the Bronx who embraces black culture? Unlike Gina Rodriguez a Puerto Rican woman who enters conversation about blackness to silence those voices to say “but what about Latinx people?” ?? There’s a huge difference https://t.co/dIz3j7NHI9
— gigi (@le_debut) October 15, 2019
How do you act like a black woman ? How do black women act ? https://t.co/IMxOAgi7s0
— iamcardib (@iamcardib) October 17, 2019
But the crazy shit is when I did videos like this people used to say are you black “but you speak Spanish so I just started saying I’m carribean cause had to always argue and then people started claiming that I don’t claim my blackness.Its like it’s always a L https://t.co/9zrqrXqYfP
— iamcardib (@iamcardib) October 17, 2019
This isn’t the first time the songwriter has expressed frustration in having to defend herself against this particular subject. Over the summer, she took to her Instagram live a and spoke out about the matter and people’s ingnorance on the subbject:
“A lot of people don’t know the difference between nationality, race, ethnicity. That’s not nobodies fault, that’s actually the school’s fault because schools don’t be teaching this sh*t to people,” she said.
“People just don’t be understanding s—, ” she adds. “It’s like, ‘Cardi’s Latin, she’s not black.’ And it’s like, ‘Bro, my features don’t come from … white people f–king, OK?’ And they always wanna race-bait when it comes to me. … I have Afro features. ‘Oh, but your parents are light-skinned … all right, but my grandparents aren’t.”
It’s always interesting how we choose to make these sorts of topics causing division an issue when we need to be coming together.
Y’all except Haitians who scream “Haiti pam nan diferan” despite everything the country is going through to understand the concept of race/ethnicity/nationality and the usage of the “n” word!!
Anyways, google is free. Here’s a very SIMPLE breakdown!!SN: PLEASE READ A BOOK pic.twitter.com/zCV0jeN34K
— SACRED NIGG** (@darkbaldi) October 20, 2019
