USA- Wednesday, July 29, 2020/ https://africanpostonline.com/– The pressures of racism seem to have caught up with actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish as she confesses why she can’t have children.
Haddish confesses that she has seen enough racism to subject her children to that fate.
She says that “there’s a part of me that would like to do that, and I always make up these excuses like, ‘Oh, I need a million dollars in the bank before I do that, I need this, I need that.’ But really, it’s like, I would hate to give birth to someone that looks like me … knowing that they’re gonna be hunted or killed,” She says that she would not want to “ put someone through that
Speaking on Carmelo Anthony’s “What’s in Your Glass”, the comedian opined that “it’s time to talk about that, and how we have to come together as a community and work as a unit — and maybe we don’t all agree on the same things, but we need to just find some common ground and move forward as human beings.”
She further stated that the only way to change the narrative of racism is to change the hearts of people and her career was aimed towards that.
“We’re all trying to figure out, how do you fix this? How do you stop this? And I think we have to figure out how to change people’s hearts, and that’s what I’ve been trying to do my whole career,”
Haddish said that her presence at George Floyd’s funeral was symbolic for her as she saw her friends get “slaughtered by police” when she was growing up.
“The thing that made me really want to be (at George Floyd’s funeral) is I have watched my friends be slaughtered by the police,” she said. “I have watched people be murdered in front of me. And as a 13-year-old, 14-year-old girl, you know, and there was nothing I could do, except, ‘No, don’t do that!’ — just yelling out. What does that do?”
“And so I wanted to be there in support of the family because I understand how they feel, and being there was like being there for all my friends whose funerals I already went to, all my friends who passed away, all the people that I went to school with who’ve passed away, have been locked up for no reason just ’cause they can’t afford a good lawyer or, you know, accused of things that they didn’t do,” she said as she expressed her sentiments.
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