Eva Longoria apologizes for her comments about the role Latinas and black women in the election

[babarsuhail]

https://instagram.com/p/CHWzxTOgkRy

Follow-up to this post.

After saying that Latinas are the “real heroines” of the 2020 election victory of Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris on Sunday on MSNBC. Eva Longoria has apologized for her comments and clarifies what she meant in an Instagram post

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[trendsnational]

White Latinos really love to erase Black Latinos huh?? As a Black Latino myself I would harshly like to say fuck off.

[g_lovesbb]

Just like reg white they don’t see acknowledge
anything unless it looks like them

[23want]

She was on one of those ancestry shows a few years ago and she makes it sound like her family thinks of themselves as Spanish more than Mexican in contrast to how she views herself.

https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/eva-longorias-surprising-dna-test/

[soinnocuous]

She was on Finding Your Roots on PBS. Not only is she 70% European (genetically), her ancestors have DEEP roots in the former Texas/Mexican frontier. She’s generationally wealthy Tex-Mex.

Which is to say, OF COURSE her family want to be from Spain. This is about the whitest white-washing of Latinidad there can ever be.

[bakemonos]

Well she ain't Black Latino so

[bakemonos]

And it sure as fuck don't make her BLACK which is the mother fucking POINT.

[chllschse]

She's white. She may have some indigenous or even black ancestry from generations ago, but she's white.

[triviagogo29]

She is though

[analievelyn]

White ppl of all ethnicities get sooo angry when you say that they benefit from their light skin lol

[readmymiind]

Agreed and not only the white part, tbh.

i also think that the vast majority of "white latinos" are not even white latinos, just fair skinned. and there might be some that are straight up white, but those are the ones who can track their European ancestors to a very recent point. the others? nah bruh you're mestizo with more white on you.

[hateistoodark]

Yeah it rubs me the wrong way when people claim whiteness in people who look like her or Selena Gomez.

The caste system is alive and well in Latin America

[triviagogo29]

Latin America has a huge variety of country and cultures. Someone like Eva Longoria and Selena Gomez could easily be considered white in Brazil.

[hateistoodark]

I live in Mexico and I’m lighter than Eva and that’s not my experience at all

[triviagogo29]

I understand which is why I emphasized Latin America has differences across countries. Mexico isn’t a parameter for the whole region.