Is Jessica Alba a sell out?

[Erzengel]

I've been a fan for years and I have seen the effects the racist have had on limiting her career.

There are a lot of movies I would have liked her to have had a chance at being in so I could see how she does.

Fortunately this year there will be some movies coming out that will give her a chance to show what she can do.

Yeah, maybe it's not the effects of "racism" limiting her career. Maybe it's the quality of her work. Maybe she should do independent films until others take notice and enough fluff work such as "Good Luck Charm".

 

[Erzengel]

and more like this:

Half Mexican, half Argentinian and fluent in Spanish. :heart:

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

We need to take Alba's skin off and blood out if she won't use them correctly.
Give them to a decent person who only talks about ethnicity all day.

It's like oakzap.
She didn't type Black enough.
Never a "Da", or a "Yo".
Never even so much as a "I feel ya".
It's shameful.

 

[MOIDANGEREUX]

She did that one Honey movie and then decided she wasn't going urban anymore...too many mexicans and blacks were trying to get with her.

The director of that film Billy Woodruff is a close friend of Jessica and I regularly see paparazzi photos taken of them together.

 

[Erzengel]

In her next role, Alba should embrace her ethnic roots.

 

[terry78]

We need to take Alba's skin off and blood out if she won't use them correctly.
Give them to a decent person who only talks about ethnicity all day.

It's like oakzap.
She didn't type Black enough.
Never a "Da", or a "Yo".
Never even so much as a "I feel ya".
It's shameful.

And that's why her black card was revoked.

I make sure to add in a "screw whitey" or "know what i'm sayin" every other post.

 

[gap5ewl]

It's sad that race is still such a big deal. Who cares what the color of your skin is or what you heritage is. Jessica Alba is a beautiful woman and I find it sad that like many other people of mixed race feel the need to distance themselves from their "non-white" heritage because they feel they won't get the respect they want and their are trying to "fit in". Jessica has said in the past she considers herself more white than hispanic and that's fine. THe fact that she is pretty much dissing Mexican Americans and spanish speaking people is pretty sad and technically does make her a sell-out to American society.

 

[Abaddon]

I wonder who the bigger alba fan is, JAL or Moidangereux.

 

[Spade]

In reference to the original post- I love it when people claim that "the Latin community is outraged." It's like saying we care even an iota about this comment.

 

[terry78]

In reference to the original post- I love it when people claim that "the Latin community is outraged." It's like saying we care even an iota about this comment.

You're a latino also? Damn, you think you know a guy. this place is just crawling with youse guys.

 

[MOIDANGEREUX]

It's sad that race is still such a big deal. Who cares what the color of your skin is or what you heritage is. Jessica Alba is a beautiful woman and I find it sad that like many other people of mixed race feel the need to distance themselves from their "non-white" heritage because they feel they won't get the respect they want and their are trying to "fit in". Jessica has said in the past she considers herself more white than hispanic and that's fine. THe fact that she is pretty much dissing Mexican Americans and spanish speaking people is pretty sad and technically does make her a sell-out to American society.

"Alba is my last name and I'm proud of that. But that's it. My grandparents were born in California, the same as my parents, and though I may be proud of my last name, I'm American. Throughout my whole life, I've never felt connected to one particular race or heritage, nor did I feel accepted by any. If you break it down, I'm less Latina than Cameron Diaz, whose father is Cuban. But people don't call her Latina because she's blonde."

"My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don't speak Spanish. So, to say that I'm a Latin actress, OK, but it's not fitting; it would be insincere."

 

[Green Goblin 1964]

(reads article)


hmm.............(looks at pics of Jessica Alba)

eff dat article she's smokin!



any way the article doesn't say that she's upset or anything about being latina just she's not as into her heritage like other actresses and says it in a respectful way....like that crappy actress J Lo.t:

 

[Duende Verde]

We need to take Alba's skin off and blood out if she won't use them correctly.
Give them to a decent person who only talks about ethnicity all day.

It's like oakzap.
She didn't type Black enough.
Never a "Da", or a "Yo".
Never even so much as a "I feel ya".
It's shameful.

Alba doesn't wear a big sombrero, everybody knows that only Real Mexicans wear big sombreros and expontanously do the mexican hat dance with it.

 

[Erzengel]

"My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don't speak Spanish. So, to say that I'm a Latin actress, OK, but it's not fitting; it would be insincere."

But she is Latin.

So if Mario, doesn't eat Italian food or speak the language and was born in America, he shouldn't be considered an Italian American because he was brought up in the States?

 

[MOIDANGEREUX]

But she is Latin.

So if Mario, doesn't eat Italian food or speak the language and was born in America, he shouldn't be considered an Italian American because he was brought up in the States?

Descent
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In anthropology, the tracing of an individual's ancestry in the male line only (patrilineally), in the female line only (matrilineally), or through both males and females. Descent may be traced for various purposes, most commonly in order to regulate inheritance, or succession to office, or to define rights to the membership of groups. Some social groups may be defined by common descent. Anthropologists call such groups lineages or clans.


THEREFORE: Whether you trace Jessica Alba's decent through the matrilineal line(her mother is Danish and French Canadian) or the patrilineal line(her father through his partilineal line is of "European" descent as shown by the tracing of the "family" name).Alba is of "European" NOT "Mexican" descent!

 

[Capt Throbberson]

But she is Latin.

So if Mario, doesn't eat Italian food or speak the language and was born in America, he shouldn't be considered an Italian American because he was brought up in the States?

Yeah but he lives in Mushroom Kingdom now, so what would that make him?

 

[Erzengel]

Her father is Mexican.

She's Hispanic.

 

[Duende Verde]

Yeah but he lives in Mushroom Kingdom now, so what would that make him?

Fungi-American.

 

[Elisha Cuthbert]

Thanks!

Uh...you're welcome.

 

[Capt Throbberson]

Uh...you're welcome.

 

[Erzengel]

Jimmy Fallon joke?

 

[Capt Throbberson]

Jimmy Fallon joke?

I dunno, It reminded that SNL skit where he was the computer guy, and I think Jackie Chan was his sidekick.

 

[Fanticon]

It sounds like she's being truthful and doesn't want to claim to be something she's not...theres a difference between embracing your heritage and faking it. Now...Jay Hernandez...he's someone who plays plenty of latino parts...but in real life can't speak spanish. Is he the sell-out?

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

People are pretty pissed off at me now that I finally cut loose from my Irish/Spanish/Scottish/American Indian/Laplander heritages.

 

[Sloth7d]

Jessica Alba isn't a sell out. She doesn't look latina so her agents don't promote it. Just like Halle Bery doesn't look white so she doesn't promote it. Though maybe it wasn't good to compare Alba to a sell out even if she sold out through a different method.