During a sit down on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Facebook series Red Table Talk , Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock went into detail about the challenges she faces as a white mother raising Black children. Bullock adopted two Black children, son Louis, 11, and daughter Laila, 9. During the conversation, she revealed that she wished her skin tone “matched” that of her children, Buzzfeed reports . “To say that I wished our skins matched…sometimes I do,” Bullock said. “Because then it would be easier on how people approached us.” “I have the same feelings as a woman with brown skin, and it being her babies. Or a white woman with white babies,” she continued. Co-host Willow Smith added her commentary, saying that skin color isn’t powerful enough to dictate the parenting bond between children and those who raise them. “It’s the mother-child dynamic. There is no color,” Bullock responded. The actress expressed a level of hope to her doubts adding, “Maybe one day that will go away. Maybe one...
