For Some Wild Reason Gina Rodriguez Thought She Could Get Away With Saying the N-Word [UPDATED]
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Actor Gina Rodriguez posted an Instagram story of herself rapping along to the Fugees song “Ready or Not,” saying, “niggas give me heebie-jeebies.” What Rodriguez clearly wasn’t ready for was backlash, of which she’s receiving plenty on social media: She has since deleted the video from her Instagram account, she’s a top trending topic on Twitter, and Bossip has already dubbed her Carmen Klandiego and Becky the Virgin.
Rodriguez has a history of making tone-deaf, anti-black comments. In the last year alone she has interrupted an interviewer who commented on Yara Shahidi inspiring young black women, telling him that Shahidi is an inspiration to “women” in general; erroneously claimed that black women receive higher pay than Latinas in the entertainment industry and are therefore part of the problem with gender pay inequities in Hollywood; and cried about the backlash that resulted from her aforementioned pay disparity comments, while trotting out her Afro-Latino father and extended family in her own paltry defense.