'My whole life, police have made me feel safe. But that’s exactly the center of my white privilege,' Natalie Portman wrote in an Instagram post
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, I have to admit my first reaction was fear," Portman began. "My whole life, police have made me feel safe. But that’s exactly the center of my white privilege: the police make me as a white woman feel safe, while my black friends, family and neighbors feel the opposite: police make them feel terror. And for good reason."
She continued, "Police are the 6th leading cause of death for black men in this country. These are not isolated incidents. They are patterns and part of the system of over-policing of black Americans."who have made us question the status quo," Portman wrote. "And who have made us imagine, what a world could be like in which we invested in nourishing people; — rather than putting all of our money into punishment.
"I’ve gotten to the age in my life, where if my gut feels uncomfortable, I take the situation as wrong," the actress added. "But this concept initially made me uncomfortable because I was wrong. Because the system that makes me feel comfortable is wrong.
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