Sex And The City actress Kristin Davis fears for the safety of her daughter in Donald Trump’s America. The white actress has a black 5 year old daughter named Gemma Rose, and the election of Donald Trump and the early appointments in his cabinet have the actress very concerned and fearful.
In a “How I Got Over” interview with WNYC’s Rebecca Carroll, Davis shared her thoughts:
I might have had the intellectual learning curve that we all hope and wish we have, but it’s different than the actual life that you’re on the line for. I have to protect my daughter at all costs.
The interview is lengthy and Davis and Carroll discuss so many things around blackness and whiteness including beauty and privilege. Carroll asks Davis tough questions and pushes her to spots that I imagine Davis (as a white woman) felt uncomfortable, but she answers them all with honesty. Regarding her white privilege, Davis said:
I thought I knew before adopting my daughter that I was in white privilege, that I understood what that meant. But until you actually have a child, which is like your heart being outside you, and that heart happens to be in a brown body, and you have people who are actively working against your child, it’s hard. It fills me with terror.
See the full video of Davis’ interview below.