The 40-year-old comedian says she always jokes about motives when asked, but the truth is much simpler and much more tragic.
At 40 years Tiffany Haddish He has heard all the letters from friends and family about the fact that he has no children yet. Everyone wants to know if and when they will be in the business of starting their own family.
As a result, the actress and comedian has given a lot of thought to having children, and chooses not to because of her professional aspirations, or any of the other reasons she might expect. No, its truth is much more tragic.
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“There’s a part of me that wants to do that, and I always make up these excuses like, ‘Oh, I need a million dollars in the bank before I do it, I need this, I need that,'” he joked about the possibility of having children while chatting. with Carmelo Anthony about his “What’s in your glass?” podcast
Getting visibly emotional while talking about this, Tiffany continued, “I would hate to give birth to someone who looks like me,” she said. “Knowing that they will be hunted or killed.”
“Like, why would I put someone through that?” she asked.
“It’s scary,” agreed Carmelo, who has a 13-year-old son. “It’s scary even to think about it.”
It’s a heartbreaking reality that became very resonant amidst the Black Lives Matter movement as awareness of the experience of blacks in the United States increases, including things like conversations that black parents have with their children about how to interact with the police to minimize the chance that ‘I will be shot and killed.
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“And whites don’t have to think about it,” Tiffany said, imagining that her children were “hunted or killed.”
“It is time to talk about it and how we should come together as a community and work as a unit,” he said. “And maybe not all of us agree on the same things, but we need to find something in common and move forward as human beings.”
However, from what she sees, the answer is much simpler and perhaps the most difficult task of all. “We are all trying to solve, how is this solved? How is this stopped? And I think we have to find out how to change people’s hearts,” he said.
“That’s what I’ve been trying to do my entire career.”
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