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(Actor) James Roday (from the series Psych), Details 'Deeply Personal' Decision to Reclaim Birth Name Rodriguez: 'I Want to Be the Most Honest Ally for My Community'
TV Line ^ | July 14, 2020 | Michael Ausiello

Posted on 07/14/2020 8:23:02 AM PDT by EdnaMode

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He is changing his name back to Rodriguez because white actors are being discriminated against in Hollywood right now. How soon before Martin and Charlie Sheen go back to their original names Estevez?
1 posted on 07/14/2020 8:23:02 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

I learned to like Psych while laid up with sprained ankles.


2 posted on 07/14/2020 8:27:14 AM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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Seriously, I can't think of one house-hold name white-male actor under the age of 50.

Don't care...don't watch their garbage anyway.

Huck Follywood.

3 posted on 07/14/2020 8:28:54 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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To: EdnaMode

So now stage names are racists. Do you know how many actors and actresses change their names for the screen? This could really change history...BTW, you can take down all the John Wayne statues, just leave Marion Michael Morrison alone.


4 posted on 07/14/2020 8:37:14 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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“ I want to be the best, most honest ally and amplifier that I can be for my own community and for my friends of color.”

Who talks like this? Is this woke-speak?


5 posted on 07/14/2020 8:40:04 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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Hollweird is filled with racists? Hu knew?

I suppose next we'll find out it's filled with sex predators.

6 posted on 07/14/2020 8:40:54 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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People desperate to work in their current field and not be blacklisted.


7 posted on 07/14/2020 8:44:30 AM PDT by MNlurker
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To: EdnaMode

I am white until it became politically incorrect so now I am Mexican /s

I don’t care if he changed his name to help his career, almost every actor has done so. But to change (or revert back) to a name that you think will protect you is...well cowardly.

Hey James, word to the wise, it is not going to matter. Appeasement never succeed. What are you going to do when they come after Hispanics? You toss your white friends under the bus and they will not be there to help protect you when the mob is at your door.


8 posted on 07/14/2020 8:47:37 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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I haven’t clicked on the link. I have no idea who this guy is. I’ve watched a lot of Psych, but I don’t know who the actors are. lol What character is played by James Roday Rodriguez? I can’t believe an actor would change his name. lolol


9 posted on 07/14/2020 8:47:40 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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He is changing his name back to Rodriguez because white actors are being discriminated against in Hollywood right now. -EdnaMode

Seriously, I can't think of one house-hold name white-male actor under the age of 50. -RckyRaCoCo

This has been going on for years. I wonder how much of it is discrimination and how much of it is from actors avoiding sexual predators. Straight white male actors don't want the casting couch for their jobs and the sexual predators aren't attracted to nonwhite victims.

10 posted on 07/14/2020 8:48:50 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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“How soon before Martin and Charlie Sheen go back to their original names Estevez?”

Well, Martin doesn’t need the work and Carlos probably wouldn’t get any even if he changed his name back and started dressing like a mariachi.


11 posted on 07/14/2020 8:50:18 AM PDT by Boogieman
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the casting director was put off by the fact that his Caucasian-like skin tone was out of sync with his last name.

Notice who the actual racists are? Hollywood and the liberals.

13 posted on 07/14/2020 8:52:47 AM PDT by New Perspective (Proud father of a son with Down Syndrome and fighting to keep him off Obama's death panels.)
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Really? Chris Pine, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Karl Urban (not much longer), Benedict Cumberpatch. And that’s just the Marvel crowd. Plenty of white actors making the bank.


14 posted on 07/14/2020 8:54:58 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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So what this non-white Mexican is saying is that he’s been appropriating white culture? Piss off, cabron.


15 posted on 07/14/2020 8:58:13 AM PDT by Levy78
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To: petitfour

He plays Sean Spencer.


17 posted on 07/14/2020 9:00:19 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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I looked him up. Who knew!

When I was young, I would have known who he was. But now, I don’t care about actors and actresses. I do like the show though.


18 posted on 07/14/2020 9:01:48 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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Hollywood has always been fickle. If everyone used their real names it would sound like Shindler’s list.

I respect the guy for stepping up and helping to make it easier for others. THAT is what is “supposed” to happen.


19 posted on 07/14/2020 9:04:03 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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Makes me wonder how Desi Arnaz was ever able to become a Famous Actor, TV Star and Owner of a major Hollywood Studio.

Maybe everyone thought he was Jewish, just like Sammy Davis Jr.


20 posted on 07/14/2020 9:04:17 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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