Rashida Jones is biracial, not tan

[downtoearth]

I can't copy from my phone but ... Rashida Jones was asked by a reporter on the SAG awards red carpet if she had been on an island bc she was so tan and her response was, "You know I'm ethnic, right!?"

www.refinery29.com/2015/01/81355/rashida-jones-tan-ethnic

[StrawberryBlondie]

People don't know Quincy Jones is her dad?

[Deleted]

It's not like Rashida magically got darker over the weekend so I'm not even sure what grade crack that lady was smoking anyway.

[tacosforlife]

Oh my god.

I didn't realize she is Quincy Jones' daughter. I actually didn't know anything about her personally (only her roles) until I just now Googled her. Then again, I'm not interviewing people on the red carpet. FFS.

[iammalcolmx]

::sigh:

[ChillyMcFreeze]

This can't be real life. If you don't know extremely basic biographical facts about famous folks, you have no business interviewing anybody on a red carpet.

[Queen Mamadala]

Bahahaha. I love her "ethnic" response. I've gotten "You must be Hawaiian" comments so many times, or "you look like you having something in you." :blank stare: It's always classic when I wear braids or twists... that's when I appear "sort of" ethnic, but certainly not black. *eyeroll* My mama is black. We do come in varying shades.

[starlily]

Jan 27, 2015 19:36:20 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

Oh my god.

I didn't realize she is Quincy Jones' daughter. I actually didn't know anything about her personally (only her roles) until I just now Googled her. Then again, I'm not interviewing people on the red carpet. FFS.

I remember first reading about her and her sister in Sassy eons ago. It was neat to see her start popping up in roles.

[mx27]

Jan 27, 2015 19:59:24 GMT -5 Queen Mamadala said:

We do come in varying shades.

Right.

Sadly, I think many people still have a single "look" in their mind of what a black person looks like.

Black people are not a monolith!

[thejackpot]

I love her response.

[MixedBerryJam]

Her parents are Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton, right? The actual Mod Squad! That what I've always thought, at least. i've never actually googled to confirm, though.

[chedifuen]

Might as well just said, "you're very exotic looking, was your dad a G.I.?"

[StrawberryBlondie]

Jan 27, 2015 21:34:49 GMT -5 chedifuen said:

Might as well just said, "you're very exotic looking, was your dad a G.I.?"

RIP strawberry.

[stealthmom]

Omg. Seriously? SERIOUSLY?

her dad is quincy fucking jones. What kind of asshole hollywood person wouldn't know that?

[jln]

Jan 27, 2015 19:32:28 GMT -5 StrawberryBlondie said:

People don't know Quincy Jones is her dad?

Nope, I didn't. 

[WOT?*]

She got the best of both her mom and her dad. There's not an ugly thing about her. Gorgeous and not.dumb. What a classy and classic response.

[PandaPear]

I get "what are you?" or some version of that fairly often. Peple most often think I'm Mexican or Middle Eastern so I occasionally get shamed for my poor Spanish as well as how my "people are terrorists."

[MarmeeNoir]

Jan 27, 2015 22:55:17 GMT -5 PandaPear said:

I get "what are you?" or some version of that fairly often. Peple most often think I'm Mexican or Middle Eastern so I occasionally get shamed for my poor Spanish as well as how my "people are terrorists."

People think I'm some type of Asain the most. No, the rumor that the man that sired my father was not white, but he was not Asain. I get the side eye and I think people think I'm lying. My sister and I are thinking about doing that dna test to see what's in there.

[PandaPear]

Jan 27, 2015 23:32:34 GMT -5 Catlawdy said:

Jan 27, 2015 22:55:17 GMT -5 PandaPear said:

I get "what are you?" or some version of that fairly often. Peple most often think I'm Mexican or Middle Eastern so I occasionally get shamed for my poor Spanish as well as how my "people are terrorists."

Same here, though no one has had the balls to call my people terrorists.

If you ask someone where they are from and they say Chicago, your followup question should not be, "no, like really from, before that."

Yes!! They get so annoyed like I'm holding out on the real answer or don't understand the question.  

I can't believe how many people don't see anything wrong with questions like this. 

[childofhiphop]

My nurse at last week's infusion... (said in almost a whisper) "Do you mind if I ask if you're ethnic?"

ME: I don't mind. But what makes you ask?

HIM: Your name. It's very "ethnic".

ME: thoroughly agitated and speaking more and more crisply... "That's interesting that you would say that. Actually, it's my married name. My maiden name is (very, very German)."

HIM: (finally getting embarrassed for even asking) "Really?"

ME: "It's okay. I'm am proud of who I am. It's usually my features or hair that causes people to have the nerve to ask."

IS IT REALLY 2015?

[mx27]

Jan 28, 2015 0:03:04 GMT -5 childofhiphop said:

"Do you mind if I ask if you're ethnic?"

LOL!

isn't everyone ethnic?  as in, everyone has an ethnicity, no?

I don't understand the question.

[mcsangel2]

Jan 27, 2015 21:34:49 GMT -5 chedifuen said:

Might as well just said, "you're very exotic looking, was your dad a G.I.?"

I feel the need to share with those who didn't watch "The Office", that this was Steve Carrell's character's comment to her on her first episode.

[emilyj]

Jan 27, 2015 19:32:28 GMT -5 StrawberryBlondie said:

People don't know Quincy Jones is her dad?

I had no idea.

Between this and the reporter asking the female tennis player to spin around and show off her outfit, I give up this week.

[summer]

Jan 27, 2015 23:32:34 GMT -5 Catlawdy said:

Jan 27, 2015 22:55:17 GMT -5 PandaPear said:

I get "what are you?" or some version of that fairly often. Peple most often think I'm Mexican or Middle Eastern so I occasionally get shamed for my poor Spanish as well as how my "people are terrorists."

Same here, though no one has had the balls to call my people terrorists.

If you ask someone where they are from and they say Chicago, your followup question should not be, "no, like really from, before that."

YES!!!! God I hate that.  "No, where are you REALLY from?"  Bitch, I'm AMERICAN! From CHICAGO!  

[iammalcolmx]

My personal favorite was "Where did you get that good hair from?" . I can't deal with folks plantation luggage. People usually ask me if I am mixed race well into a conversation. I am assuming because they think black people are simple in Georgia so the only way I can have exposure to anything else is having a white parent...........

[bimbi284]

There was a girl in my program working on a study of racial microaggressions. Between classes one day, she was trying to get people to take her survey and bounced up to like, "oh hey! You're not white! Will you take my survey?" I looked around the room and everyone was staring, bug-eyed, and my friends looked like they were about to piss themselves (this particular girl was the most culturally incompetent person in our program and has a reputation of saying stupid shit).
Anyways, all I could say was, "ummm actually I am white.", her response? "Well yeah but, you're not like WHITE WHITE.", and then I just stared, and some friends had to walk out of the room, and she was like, "I mean you're like, Puerto Rican or whatever, not American, you know!". To which I followed with the fact that all Puerto Rican are American citizens, I am of European descent and white, grabbed the survey from her stupid hands, and filled it out. I also included some extra notes about how the interviewer probably should avoid committing microaggressions if she wants to get enough data for her study.

[rupertpenny]

Jan 27, 2015 22:34:58 GMT -5 Catlawdy said:

Ok, don't quote BC people that know me in real life know this story.

I got the same thing a lot growing up. I have brown hair and eyes and tan easily and people spoke to me in Spanish often. My BFF is 100% Colombian and a native Spanish speaker and once someone came up to the both of us and started speaking directly to me in Spanish. 

My family is from Iceland, so basically as white as white can be. But I guess the combination of my "ethnic" looks (in quotes because like mx27 said, everyone has an ethnicity) and my non-waspy name I got "where are you from? But really, where are you REALLY from?" All the time. 

It has gotten better since I've been an adult though. I don't get as tan since I have to actually go to work and stuff, and my married name is much more vanilla. 

[meggers5]

People have thought that I was Mexican several times, and Middle Eastern twice. My last name is quite Irish.

I'll probably really confuse people when/if I take FI's last name.

[AJL]

When my sister and I were in elementary school, my grandmother would sometimes pick us up if my mom or dad couldn't. My grandmother is pretty darn white. She's of German and French ancestry. Her husband was Mexican American, thus making my dad half. Anyway, my sister and I looked pretty dark in the early months of school because it was the end of summer and we were water babies. We got pretty tan.

A lady saw my grandmother pick us up and asked a mutual family friend "Who is that lady picking up G and M?" The friend says, "That's their grandmother." The lady says, "Oh. I didn't realize that the girls were adopted."




Fast forward to having my own children. My dad is half-Hispanic, half-white euro mutt. My mom is Mexican (half European, half native people but we're not sure which group.)  I got the color in the family. A touch of sun and I get very dark.  I married a man whose ancestry is straight up 100% Russian Jew. Tall, fair, white. Anyway, when I had our son, he looked like me. He was a good mix of both his dad and me in features and coloring.

When I had my daughter, she came out pinky pink pink with strawberry blond hair. My fraking mother-in-law said to me, "She looks nothing like you! She's so white. I had no idea you could make a white baby."



People are so stupid. 

[itsme]

I had no clue Kadida was her sister. I didn't know her name before this.