I learned that Jennifer Lopez is white.
Yes, that Jennifer Lopez, who self-identifies as Puerto Rican and Latina, has two Puerto Rican parents, and is widely known as a highly visible and successful Latina and a role model for other Latina women – is white.
According to Tumblr, anyway.
Not a troll, apparently. Tumblr is unintentional self-parody, though.
Next I’ll learn that Samuel L. Jackson is white, I am sure.
Hell, the Tumblr clueless cabal can’t even use their usual excuse this time – that she “passes” for white so she is “really” white. Jennifer Lopez does and is a lot of things, but look white she does not.
Ah, Tumblr — methinks you are probably an NSA or CIA project to make the Left look bad. Or at least hoping that is the case.
You can be Latin and read as white.
You can be Latin and read as black.
You can be both.
I went to school with a Venezuelan who looked like Dita Von Teese. Other people read her as white until she opened her mouth.
That section of SJ Tumblr is\super super hurt that black women are considered ugly and that nobody thinks black people can be Latin@.
Hilariously, I get people thinking I speak fluent Spanish. It baffles people that I don’t.
I can understand why people are upset about in a lot of American culture that black women get read as ugly/savage. That would hurt me were I subject to it.
But so much of Tumblr is about re-enacting your own oppressions on others.
Not sure I agree that Jennifer Lopez can be perceived as anything but Latina, unless one is being deliberately obstinate and/or the person has eye problems.