Black-ish star Yara Shahidi feels ‘conflicted’ about speaking out on race: ‘It’s a double-edged sword’
metro.co.ukShe told ELLE magazine: ‘When I’m looking at this moment at large, there is this kind of double-edged sword of wanting people to speak up and then [thinking that they’re] not speaking up the right way.‘It’s something that I’m personally even conflicted about.
In this moment, for example, I think a lot of the work that I’m hoping to do is about pointing people toward the organisers and the people on the front lines of this movement, because they have the most prescient, most real, most necessary voices.‘The greatest skill about having a platform, I think, is handing over the mic.’Issues of race and diversity have come to the forefront once more after the death of George Floyd in the US, a black man who died after a white police officer knelt.
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