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Jada Pinkett Smith claims she's triggered by white women with blond hair

Jessica Chasmar
Washington Times
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 11:03 UTC

Actress Jada Pinkett Smith revealed Monday that white women with blond hair trigger deep-seated prejudices in her that she's carried since she was a child.

The "Girls Trip" star said on the new episode of her Facebook chat show, "Red Table Talk," that she's had to keep herself in check when it comes to judging white women, acknowledging that they share the oppression she's also experienced because of their gender.

"White women understand what it feels to be oppressed ... because of their sex," Mrs. Pinkett Smithsaid. "What it feels to be ostracized or not being treated as an equal.

"I have to admit I'm guilty to that to a certain degree because I do have my own biases, specifically to blond women," she added. "Blond hair on white women just triggers me, and I've had to catch myself."

Mrs. Pinkett Smith said she was teased and "belittled" by white women all throughout her childhood because of the way she looked.

Reader Comments

Oscar_Mayer · 2018-11-16T12:04:21Z

Men and women are not equal. Neither is above the other, but we are not equals. We may share some similarities, but I say again we are NOT equal.

Oscar_Mayer · 2018-11-16T12:09:56Z

Women in America are not oppressed in any way. The "pay gap" myth has been debunked a hundred times over. You can wear what you want and do as you please. So where is this oppression. As for Jada she wanted to be a blonde haired and blue eyed white woman since she got to HOLLYwood.

Artex · 2018-11-16T14:51:46Z

You haven't worked in IT. Women are still oppressed in male dominated fields, and women have to outperform everyone to get the recognition the rest of us get for just doing our jobs. And I've only been in the field the last 10 years. I've heard stories of much worse from the earlier days of IT.

StarEater · 2018-11-16T15:16:17Z

Clarify, country, company, branch, job because saying all woman on this planet in all countries at all companies are oppressed in male dominated fields is very generalisimg and innacurate.

HashAttack2 · 2018-11-16T13:57:16Z

Stupid cow .... bet she oppresses people every day

There is a word for people who are triggered by someones else's skin colour ... it called RACIST

On TV at 19, in work every year and marries a hollywood star at 26

Exactly how hard and oppressed has her life being been?