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Actress Amanda Seales confronts Caitlyn Jenner on white privilege
the evening was live streamed for Katy Perry’s album release
(Screenshot via Twitter.)
“Insecure” actress Amanda Seales broke down white privilege to Caitlyn Jenner during a dinner party at Katy Perry’s house on Sunday.
The dinner was live streamed on Perry’s YouTube channel as part of her weekend long, “Big Brother”- style streaming show in promotion of her new album, “Witness.”
In a clip posted on Twitter, the 35-year-old explains to Jenner how white privilege prevents the reality star from viewing the country in the same way as Seales.
“It’s an insult to me that you’re not listening to what I’m saying,” Seales told Jenner. “If this is a conversation about having conversations, then we have to be listening to each other.The reason I am so passionate ― and I’m not hostile, I’m passionate ― is because I’ve had such a different experience in this country than you.”
Seales continued to break down how historically the U.S. government has affected the lives of black women.
“As a black woman, the government is so much in my life, and it always has been,” Seales says. “The government literally said that black men could not even be in the house or else women couldn’t get welfare. That’s a big reason why there’s such a chasm between black women and black men in this generation.”
Jenner appeared confused by the discourse responding, “I just said I believe in this country.”
“You can say that in a way that I cannot,” Seales says. “Because you had a different experience. Because this country is here for you. This country ain’t here for me in the same way, sis. It isn’t.”
“You, as a trans person, have to also identify that this country hasn’t been here for trans until, maybe two o’clock today,” Seales added.
Other dinner guests included comedian Margaret Cho and commentators Van Jones and Ana Navarro.
Watch the exchange below.
Watch Amanda Seales GATHER Caitlyn Jenner about growing up black in America pic.twitter.com/JMmrGSRbHX
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