The back-to-back shootings of African-American men by police this week have some celebs fearing for their black children’s lives.
Kim Kardashian, who has a young son and daughter with her husband Kanye West, posted a plea for sanity to her personal blog after Louisiana police gunned down Alton Sterling and a Minnesota cop shot and killed Philando Castile.
“I want my children to grow up knowing that their lives matter,” the reality star wrote Friday.
“I do not ever want to have to teach my son to be scared of the police, or tell him that he has to watch his back because the people we are told to trust — the people who ‘protect and serve’ — may not be protecting and serving him because of the color of his skin.”
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Despite having changed her website banner to read “#BLACKLIVESMATTER,” Kardashian concluded, “hashtags are not enough. This must end now.”
The selfie queen didn’t explicitly mention the slaughter of five police officers in Dallas by a sniper apparently angered over the Sterling and Castile killings, but still called for peaceful protest.
“What will my brown son's future be? What will your brown son's future be? The uncertainty is real,” she captioned the picture. “I beg you not to be a bystander in this life, but to go out and find ways to make peaceful change.”
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“Every black or brown parent I know has a conversation with their children when they tell them exactly how to act around the police,” said the father of three. “That is abhorrent. That is immoral.”
The comic, seemingly in disbelief, added that he won’t even go to bed until his grown children return home for the night.
“I keep my clothes on in case my children need me in the middle of the (night),” he said.
Mom of one Solange Knowles — sister of Beyoncé, who penned her own impassioned response to the shootings — voiced similar anxieties Thursday after the two killings.
“Praying for my children. Praying for my children's children. Praying for NOW. Begging for change,” she tweeted Thursday.
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Kim Kardashian, who has a young son and daughter with her husband Kanye West, posted a plea for sanity to her personal blog after Louisiana police gunned down Alton Sterling and a Minnesota cop shot and killed Philando Castile.
“I want my children to grow up knowing that their lives matter,” the reality star wrote Friday.
“I do not ever want to have to teach my son to be scared of the police, or tell him that he has to watch his back because the people we are told to trust — the people who ‘protect and serve’ — may not be protecting and serving him because of the color of his skin.”
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Despite having changed her website banner to read “#BLACKLIVESMATTER,” Kardashian concluded, “hashtags are not enough. This must end now.”
The selfie queen didn’t explicitly mention the slaughter of five police officers in Dallas by a sniper apparently angered over the Sterling and Castile killings, but still called for peaceful protest.
“What will my brown son's future be? What will your brown son's future be? The uncertainty is real,” she captioned the picture. “I beg you not to be a bystander in this life, but to go out and find ways to make peaceful change.”
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“Every black or brown parent I know has a conversation with their children when they tell them exactly how to act around the police,” said the father of three. “That is abhorrent. That is immoral.”
The comic, seemingly in disbelief, added that he won’t even go to bed until his grown children return home for the night.
“I keep my clothes on in case my children need me in the middle of the (night),” he said.
Mom of one Solange Knowles — sister of Beyoncé, who penned her own impassioned response to the shootings — voiced similar anxieties Thursday after the two killings.
“Praying for my children. Praying for my children's children. Praying for NOW. Begging for change,” she tweeted Thursday.
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