Kicking off Women’s History Month, actress Gwyneth Paltrow is going viral after claiming that “White women have a lot to learn from Black women,” like “ruthless self-acceptance.”
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On Thursday (February 29), Paltrow had a conversation with Dr. Ella Bell at The MAKERS Conference in Beverly Hills, California. The Goop founder/CEO praised the “incredible intrinsic self-honoring” of her Black female friends. She said, “It’s, like from the deepest part of their souls all the way to the tips of their fingers.”
The 51-year-old Oscar winner said, “My Black women friends know themselves, love themselves, in a way that I think White women are not taught to. I think White women are taught to be competitive with one another — which is something I’ve tried to work so hard to dispel, because I don’t believe in competition between women — but we’re raised to be competitive, to be jealous, to look over each other’s shoulders.”
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Gwyneth Paltrow continued, “And, at least in my circle of Black women, they do not do that. There’s an immediate acceptance and safety and appreciation. White women have a lot to learn from Black women.”
She explained, “I’ve learned so much from my Black friends about ruthless self-acceptance and full love of self. And I think we as White women in this culture have a lot to learn from our Black sisters and the way in which they respect themselves. And I’m not sure exactly where that comes from.”
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Speaking to Bell, Paltrow said, “I can ask you that question. I would actually love to know why you think that African American women have that, and it’s like in a collective — it’s like an interwoven beautiful connection — and how you think, as White women, we can start to cultivate that within ourselves and in our own friendships.”
Bell replied, “I can turn to the Black women in this room when I need lifting up. That’s important for us. And I don’t think White women have that.” Paltrow agreed and added, “Keeping White women at odds with each other, in competition with one another, keeps the patriarchy strong.”
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She continued, “So we really have to take it upon ourselves to be conscious of our thinking and our behavior, and to build bridges and to understand that somebody’s not going to get more. You don’t have to get less because somebody is going to get more.”
Later in the conversation, Paltrow said she believes that “women should rule the world,” and that she and her Goop colleagues “want to give women access to great things.” She added, “I think it comes from a place, really, of the love of women and wanting to connect with women and be that girlfriend, be that resource. And I always go back to that — and that means all women. That means White, Black, Asian, Indian, women of all kinds. Our team is reflective of that.”
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