What a nice, thoughtful gesture by two high-profile celebrities — hopefully we’ll see this from more in the coming days. Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have made a $200,000 donation to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, admitting their collective “blindness” to racial issues as part of their white privilege in the past.
Now this is how you be an ally, people! Related: Black CNN Reporter Arrested On Air While Covering Minneapolis Protests The couple — who infamously held their wedding at a former slave plantation in Charleston, South Carolina back in 2012 — also released a statement on social media reflecting on how “ashamed” they are over how “uninformed” they’ve been in the past about sensitive racial issues.
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