Amy Sussman via Getty Images Natalie Portman adds her voice to the movement to defund the police, saying "the system that makes me feel comfortable is wrong.”“My whole life, police have made me feel safe,” the “Black Swan” star wrote. “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.”Portman said that when she first heard of the effort, her initial response was fear, which, she explained, was a manifestation of her white privilege. In a matter of weeks, calls to “defund the police” amid ongoing protests against racial injustice have moved from the radical left into the mainstream conversation, and now Natalie Portman ’s Instagram account. “I’ve gotten to the age in my life, where if my gut feels uncomfortable, I take the situation as wrong,” she wrote.

Source: Huffington Post June 09, 2020 17:48 UTC