Kristen Bell Slammed for Children’s Book That Encourages Colorblind Racism
Written by SOURCE on June 12, 2020
Kristen Bell has been slammed for writing a children’s book that promotes being colorblind instead of recognizing actual people of different races and ethnicities.
The book, The World Needs More Purple People, focuses on a “purple person” who “looks for similarities before differences.”
In a video posted by the Associated Press, the actress and author said, “The world loves debate, I do, and debate talks about differences. It’s layering difference upon difference upon difference, ‘I think this’, ‘no, you should think this’, it’s just constantly pointing out divisive narratives.”
She continued, “Our kids are absorbing all of that and maybe we needed a bit of a road map to show them that it’s actually great to start with similarities first.”
“Hopefully that will allow kids to have a little bit more of a social identity and be able to see similarities and through that have their mind opened by some people who they thought were different.”
While it appears that Bell was using the book as a call for unity, many haven’t been able to connect with her efforts as some wonder why she chose to make up a race of people rather than spotlight real people and their life experiences.
On Thursday, Bell also appeared in an anti-racism PSA, which wasn’t positively received. Sarah Paulson, Julianne Moore, Justin Theroux, Stanley Tucci, Aaron Paul, Mark Duplass, Kesha, and many more Hollywood names also shared statements in the clip.
