A number of celebrities have spoken out in shock and horror over President-elect Trump’s victory, and Kristin Davis has shared a mother’s perspective.
The Sex and the City star adopted Gemma Rose back in 2011 and, speaking at an event in New York yesterday, she admitted she is ‘terrified’ of what the future holds for her black daughter.
Admitting that she has ‘lived in white privilege', Kristin said: “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.”
Recalling her own reaction to the news that Donald Trump had won the electoral vote, the 51-year-old added: “My initial thoughts on Wednesday morning was that I wanted to move to the woods and learn to shoot a gun.”
As emotional as she may have been a fortnight ago, however, Kristin has found a powerful and positive way to help her daughter through such a trying political time.
“I have to tell her, ‘Your curls are beautiful, your black skin is beautiful. You’re beautiful. You’re powerful. You’re a goddess’ – because she needs to know this,” the actress admitted.
Kristin’s powerful comments come a week after fellow actress Elizabeth Banks admitted to breaking down in tears in front of her four-year-old, when she discovered that millennials had voted overwhelmingly in support of Hillary Clinton.
