Everyday that I shop and work and speak and travel and read and exist quite happily with this gorgeous head of hair, I defy the stereotype that I have to conform to a certain standard of beauty.
So my hoodie is up for Trayvon Martin and for all the brown boys who are watched when they enter the store or take a short-cut through another neighborhood.
We meet people through social media and we form opinions that may or may not be who they really are. Just in case maybe we should try to be nice and smile.
Is it naive to think that we can have color-blind casting and focus on the ability of the person to convey the character in a convincing way and not whether or not they “look the part”?
The comments about James Andrews were not constructive or thoughtful discourse about the use of social media, but were insensitive attacks against my husband’s character.
