Hollywood actress Sandra Bullock, 58, has opened up about how she is aware that her children will not have the same life experiences as her.
Moreover, the Miss Congeniality star has voiced her concerns about what her kids will “experience leaving the home”.
The Gravity actress, who is mother to two adopted children – Louis, 11, and Laila, 9 – spoke candidly about her experience as a white woman raising two children of colour in a recent episode of Red Table Talk.
During the episode, Sandra told a story about how her young daughter Laila left a room “depressed” after catching her partner Bryan Randall watching a few minutes of the South Korean Netflix series Squid Game.
She explained her daughter had been upset by the show, but not because of its violence, which is what she had first assumed.
Instead, her daughter had said: “I don’t want Dad to watch that … because there’s no Black people in it.”
While Laila’s action had surprised her, Sandra explained: “The fact that that was fire in her belly made me so happy that she was already voicing.
“I let [my kids] teach me and tell me what they need to know. I thought I was educated and woke, I thought I had it all, and guess what, I wasn’t.”
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She went on to confess that “as a white parent who loves her children more than life itself, I’m scared of everything.
The actress also admitted that she might be guilty of “laying all kinds of existential anxiety on them.”
However, Sandra also pointed out that “letting [her children] see everything on television and letting [them] process it” was the best way to care for them, rather than isolating them from the realities of being black.
“I have to think about what they’re going to experience leaving the home,” she explained.
“They’re going to have my fear, but how can I make sure my anxiety is accurate [and] protective?”
The entire episode of Red Table Talk is available to watch now on Facebook.
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