Is Jessica Alba a sell out?

[Tangled Web]

For me it was basically doing my best in school as well as learning about my culture from my Dad and trying to show that Mexican-Americans are as important as blacks and whites in American society.

For her it was probably her mother telling her not to be like the "wetbacks" on her father's side. That's probably why she doesn't consider herself Hispanic. I guess only when it's convinient for her.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

For me it was basically doing my best in school as well as learning about my culture from my Dad and trying to show that Mexican-Americans are as important as blacks and whites in American society.

For her it was probably her mother telling her not to be like the "wetbacks" on her father's side. That's probably why she doesn't consider herself Hispanic. I guess only when it's convinient for her.

don't know about that,not saying that African-Americans are more important then hispanics since we both had to do work are asses off to get where we are as a people. But i feel that this country was built on the backs of slaves and we had to pave the way for racial diversity amongst us and for future generations,like hispanics. Although Everything has switched around, The american work economy is very much dependant on Hispanics as laborers,cheap ones too.(construction,etc)


don't want to sound to ignorant, but if you want to expand or counter anything i said,its cool.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

Plus her dad telling George Lopez he "doesn't speak Mexican"? Isn't that like the stupidest thing ever, if it did happen?
I mean, seriously.....he knew that Spain existed right?

what the hell?

 

[Darthphere]

Plus her dad telling George Lopez he "doesn't speak Mexican"? Isn't that like the stupidest thing ever, if it did happen?
I mean, seriously.....he knew that Spain existed right?

what the hell?

Let me put it this way. Alba's way of thinking is valid, but if it wasn't for her heritage and her "olive skin" she would just be another white blonde chick in hollywood.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

don't know about that,not saying that African-Americans are more important then hispanics since we both had to do work are asses off to get where we are as a people. But i feel that this country was built on the backs of slaves and we had to pave the way for racial diversity amongst us and for future generations,like hispanics. Although Everything has switched around, The american work economy is very much dependant on Hispanics as laborers,cheap ones too.(construction,etc)


don't want to sound to ignorant, but if you want to expand or counter anything i said,its cool.

I don't really care if people acknowledge their roots or not.
what strikes me as odd is how forced it all sounds. like "we didn't speak spanish at home" why's that? her dad didn't want her to be bilingual?

uh...nice job dad! I don't expect you to know spanish but to willingly not learn something when it's available to you? that's insane, I knew this girl that had a french mom, and she spoke both french and spanish fluently and she didn't get "trapped in the french subculture" she just knew frech

It's like she's trying to deny what she is, why is she making such a big deal about it?
"no seriously guys! I'm proud of my last name...but my dad was not the Typical Mexican!!! like my cousins that have lots of babies .....LOL "

WTF? I mean, I knew she couldn't act, but I didn't know she was stupid.

 

[chaseter]

Brtiney used too.

now LL is a coked up drunken firecrotch.

Just like your avatar

 

[Mr Sparkle]

Let me put it this way. Alba's way of thinking is valid, but if it wasn't for her heritage and her "olive skin" she would just be another white blonde chick in hollywood.

meh, I have no problem with her not thinking of herself as Mexican....uh...cuz she's not.
but to like deny the reality of your heritage?
that's just weird....

I mean

"I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out."

what the ****?

"My grandfather was the only Mexican at his college, the only Hispanic person at work and the only one at the all-white country club. He tried to forget his Mexican roots, because he never wanted his kids to be made to feel different in America. He and my grandmother didn't speak Spanish to their children. Now, as a third-generation American, I feel as if I have finally cut loose."

no seriously what the ****?


"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."

no seriously!!!

"My grandfather was the only one in our family to go to college. He made a choice not to speak Spanish in the house. He didn't want his kids to be different."

say what?

I mean, if she had just said "I don't feel Mexican"
well, yeah, whatever....you're not, but the rest of it seems to have a thinly veiled shame for your origins that's insincere.

 

[terry78]

He didn't want his kids to feel different in America. Which means not white. That's what it means.

 

[Tangled Web]

Let me put it this way. Alba's way of thinking is valid, but if it wasn't for her heritage and her "olive skin" she would just be another white blonde chick in hollywood.

Exactly.

don't know about that,not saying that African-Americans are more important then hispanics since we both had to do work are asses off to get where we are as a people. But i feel that this country was built on the backs of slaves and we had to pave the way for racial diversity amongst us and for future generations,like hispanics. Although Everything has switched around, The american work economy is very much dependant on Hispanics as laborers,cheap ones too.(construction,etc)


don't want to sound to ignorant, but if you want to expand or counter anything i said,its cool.

Well first I want to dispell the myth that all brown people are born in Mexico and cross the border illegally to come to the US and be cheap labor. Some people seem to be under the impression that that is always the case.
I'll just give a quick rundown. Hopefully you get the outline.
When the US engulfed the territory that used to belong to Mexico it marked the most "foreign" people taken into the country at one time. While these people were treated differently they were able to help the enconomy mining and doing other kinds of work. As time went on and Mexicans were being born in the United State and learning english; whites still descriminated and just assumed they were less American then them (this mentality still exists).
Flash forward to the depression. Many Mexican-Americans were being kicked out to make room for "real Americans". Despite this mistreatment over half a million Mexican-Americans (and I'm sure many other Hispanics)fought in WWII. Unlike blacks who were segregated and given jobs as chefs and cooks, Mexican-Americans actually fought in integrated units. Back at home the Bracero program brought in migrants to do the labor.
In the 50's the Chicano people were able to make a splash in the Supreme court. I know school's talk about Brown v. Board but another important Civil rights case was Hernandez v. Texas. This case ruled that the 14th (I'm pretty sure) ammendment applied to all races and not just blacks and whites. Hernandez was represented by an all Hispanic legal team.
Then of course you have Cesar Chavez, there was like a paragraph on him in the AP US text book.

There's some other things like Corky Gonzales coming out against Vietnam before Martin Luther King, but I felt like I've gone on for a while.

 

[PLAS]

She has a freakin' nopal growing out of her forehead.

this is even funnier if you're Mexican

 

[bored]

Okay, with all the ado about this, does she even pretend to be "Mexican"?

 

[PLAS]

Okay, with all the ado about this, does she even pretend to be "Mexican"?

it seems she doesn't

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

that dark cactus lady would be a cool monster in a horror movie!

 

[Erzengel]

Jessica would have to research the role seeing as she feels no connection the her Mexican heritage.

 

[PLAS]

Jessica would have to research the role seeing as she feels no connection the her Mexican heritage.

still, she clearly has the nopalote on the forehead

 

[bored]

it seems she doesn't

Then why have people been making such a big stink about it?

 

[PLAS]

Then why have people been making such a big stink about it?

my guess is not much else to do

 

[Tangled Web]

Okay, with all the ado about this, does she even pretend to be "Mexican"?

As Darth pointed out earlier she owes some of her success to her heritage.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Shes only 1/4 mexican so whats it matter.


You don't see the french people getting mad about it and she's 1/4 french also.

 

[Tangled Web]

Shes only 1/4 mexican so whats it matter.


You don't see the french people getting mad about it and she's 1/4 french also.

Isn't her dad full Mexican? How do you get 1/4?

 

[Halcohol]

Isn't her dad full Mexican? How do you get 1/4?

Her mother is 1/2 Danish. Therefore, Jessica is 1/4 Danish.

1/2 plus 1/4 plus 1/4 = 1

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Her mother is 1/2 Danish. Therefore, Jessica is 1/4 Danish.

1/2 plus 1/4 plus 1/4 = 1

No he's Mexican/Indian and her mom is Part french part french.

 

[Tangled Web]

No he's Mexican/Indian and her mom is Part french part french.

By Indian do you mean indigenous? If so every Mexican is part "Indian". We basically came from the Spanish and indigenous peoples of the reigon.

 

[Halcohol]

Somebody must've cranked the Hype's "Pointless" knob to 11 today.

 

[Tangled Web]

Somebody must've cranked the Hype's "Pointless" knob to 11 today.

Totally.

Why are you here then?