It’s a new year and Gina is trending yet again. This time it’s for her long, tired, faux tear, tight throat, straw grasping, self-victimization testimony to the caping congregation at Sway In the Morning Church where she half-ass addresses the backlash she’s rightfully received/receiving and how it’s been a difficult, difficult, difficult, difficult, devastating, dark, dark time for her.
It starts at the 12:00 minute mark. Here’s some of her response. She went on and on and on.
Tracy G: “These conversations we’ve heard you speak out on behalf of equality for women’s rights, racially. Have you been able to make sense with the backlash that you got last year when you made a comment speaking about intersectional feminism and how Black actresses tend to make more than Asian actresses, and Asian actresses tend to make more than Latina actresses, and a lot of Black women felt like the comparison wasn’t fair and that you were coming against us.”
The bitch: “So I never said actresses. I wasn’t speaking about my industry. I was speaking about I thought…I always find it difficult to talk about equal pay as1 a woman who makes a substantial amount of money. Somebody who came from poverty to now the amount of money that I get paid, it doesn’t feel right that I’m the one talking about it because I’m just so damn grateful. To then be on a panel with women that I respect and admire and us talk about a very subject that I find very difficult to talk about. I was…What I was saying was that when we talk about equal pay we have to talk about intersectionality because we all must rise. And so the backlash was devastating to say the least because—”
[Tight throat emerges as she begins to muster up the tears.]
Everybody in the room: “Take your time.”
The bitch: “The Black community was the only community I looked towards growing up. We didn’t have many Latino shows and and the Black community made me feel like I was I was seen. So uh to get anti-Black is saying that I’m anti-family. My father is dark-skinned. He’s Afro-Latino.
“And my cousins are and Puerto Ricans are African, Taino and Spaniard, and it’s in my blood. So that was really devastating to me. I know my heart, I know what I meant, and I really wish that we weren’t living in a culture where we’re clickbait because I’ve never said anything controversial about anybody. And far would I ever, ever because if anything the Black community is my community. As Latinos, we are, we have, we have Black Latinos, like that is what we are. I am NOT, right? So I think when I speak about Latino advocacy people believe I mean only people my skin color,
and little do they know that I’m very aware of what my culture is. The opportunities I create and who I put in those spaces are both the Latino and the Black community.
“So it was really, really…it was a really dark time for me because it made me get away from social media because my mental health is much more important to me, especially when I know my intention. The last thing I want to do is put two underrepresented groups against each other. Our unification is what is our rise. Our unification is what’s going to allow both of our communities to continue to flourish. I support and I would hope the reverse would happen. And so when that happened I was, whoo man, that was really fucking hard because what do you say sorry for? Cheating when you didn’t cheat?
“How do you talk to a bunch of people that all they do is read ‘Gina Rodriguez Says Controversial Comments About Black Actresses.’ When? When? Whatever! Why? Never in a million years.
So, um, that shit was real difficult, but I have to like keep my head up and know my heart. I know what I do and know who I am and, and, and I hope over time that those that I had offended that had seen it as a comparison of oppression, which is devastating because we should not compare that. That is not something to compare. It’s sadly a fact that Latinas in all industries make less money. It’s a fact and that sucks, but I wasn’t saying that just them. It’s interesting because the white community nor did the Asian community get mad at me. And I found that very interesting that like the one community that I felt like I related to the most were the most upset with me.
That was just devastating. How do you…how do you talk to so many people and let them know that like ‘Oh, you are so far from the truth. That is so far from my heart that is so far from like who I am.’”
