Another video of Actress Gina Rodriguez saying the N-word surfaced on Twitter Wednesday.
The last 24 hours have been devoted to dragging the Jane the Virgin star. Black Twitter has long-awaited the demise of Rodriguez for her anti-Black track record. Now the receipts are here.
“PROOF THAT GINA SAID THE N-WORD BEFORE I CANT BREATHE,” Twitter user @spideyschelle wrote, along with video evidence.
https://twitter.com/spideyschelIe/status/1184316342759022598
What looks like a segmented “comedy” scene, Rodriguez yells at a Black man to “take a lap, you heard me I said take a lap [N-word], take a lap.”
The new video surfaced just one day after Rodriguez faced backlash for singing the N-word in an Instagram story. She has since removed the video of her rapping along with Fugees song “Ready or Not” and posted a short apology video, which fans are calling disingenuous.
“I’m sorry if I offended anyone by singing along to the Fugees, to a song I love, that I grew up on—I love Lauryn Hill—and uhm, I really am sorry if I offended you,” Rodriguez said.
“I’m sorry IF I offended anyone”.
— TONI TONE (@t0nit0ne) October 15, 2019
“By singing along to the Fugees”.
This is an example of someone being deliberately obtuse. Gina Rodriguez KNOWS she offended people, not for singing a song but for saying the N-word. If the apology is going to be insincere, just keep quiet. https://t.co/tCjVenvcTs
Gina Rodriguez wins the award for the most half assed apology of 2019 pic.twitter.com/9DaHmJm1Q0
— patback (@memeforhire) October 15, 2019
She then offered up a second apology in statement form. “The word I sang, carries with it a legacy of hurt and pain that I cannot even imagine,” she wrote. “Whatever consequences I face for my action today, none will be more hurtful than the personal remorse I feel.
Some accused Rodriguez of not making another apology video because she would again come off insincere.
https://twitter.com/thorrbruce/status/1184332651705987073
Black Twitter has been waiting for the veil to drop on Rodriguez, as she displayed anti-Black sentiment in the past. In several circumstances, Rodriguez stepped on the Afro-Latinx and Black voice in order to lift the Latinx community. For example, she hosted a Latina Power Lunch with America Ferrera for women in Hollywood where only one Afro-Latina voice was present.
In the comments under the new video, some Twitter users say the clip comes from YouTube channel NorthsideComedy. NorthsideComedy did not respond to the Daily Dot’s request for comment by publication time.
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