I haven't rented Sandra Bullock movies as I intended to after the Oscars...I haven't seen Speed, or any other film she's done besides Crash. But as I said before, I admired her Oscar speech this year, I admire the fact that she speaks fluent German, and I admire her gutsiness. And now I definitely admire, not so much the fact that she adopted a black baby from New Orleans--any celebrity could have done that; I admire the way that she's handled it so far.
Somehow she kept the whole thing under wraps until just recently. I think she did it by spending a lot of time focused on her baby and not on anything else (including the sordid details of her husband's adulterous lifestyle). As we're both 45 and new moms, I feel a certain kinship with her; I know that she could hire an entourage of nannies and helpers, but it doesn't seem like she's chosen to do so. In her Oscars speech she spoke movingly about her own mother; she has a tough road ahead of her just coping with being a single mom and handling all the stresses that are bound to come up in relation to her adoption; but she seems to be made of a resilient fiber that will weather the storms; and based on those photographs of her baby in People magazine, I'll bet he is, too.
And though any celebrity could have done what she did, the fact is that no major white celebrity has ever adopted a black baby from this country. That says something about us as a culture, I think.
Perhaps the day that we become a truly multicultural society is the day when all our children are loved equally.
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