Grown-ish, or Groan-ish? Pro-Hillary Teen Actress Yara Shahidi Favors 'Sanctity of Life'?

April 21st, 2018 8:30 PM

The new April 30 issue of People magazine is the "Beautiful Issue" featuring "41 pages of gorgeous, inspiring stars."

One page hails 18-year-old actress Yara Shahidi, under the headline "Beautiful & Brilliant." A star of ABC's Black-ish and now Grown-ish on Freeform is a big Hillary Clinton fan, but still thinks she can proclaim her big issue is "the sanctity of life." 

What issues interest you right now?

At the core of it all, I appreciate the sanctity of life. Anything that gets in the way of that is an issue that I'm passionate about. Whether it is gun control or unchecked policing and the death of young black people.

And yet, in 2016, she wrote an "I'm With Her" essay for Refinery 29 as part of a project by EMILY's List, a political action committee for pro-abortion female Democrats. 

Because my generation is one that stands for the shattering of glass ceilings and barriers. We're for creating a safe space for ALL people, no matter their race, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, gender identity, or socioeconomic status. And since many of you knew her as a first lady, senator, or secretary of state, Hillary Clinton has spent the majority of her life fighting for these very values.

A quick look at Shahidi's Twitter a tweeted picture of the actress last August taking a selfie in a pink hat that reads "PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAKES AMERICA GREAT."

 

Shahidi also told People she's trying to be "more and more intersectional" on the Left: 

“With everything that I say, or with everything that I learn, I try to be more and more intersectional in just my thoughts,” she says. “I think it’s fortunately very helpful, being at an intersection myself, of race, ethnicity, gender, geography. And so I’d have to say that I’m just trying every day to be the best human possible, and to figure out how I can contribute, and in which ways my platforms could be helpful, and which ways my voice can be helpful, so that I’m not speaking on behalf of somebody, but if I am able to be in a position in which I can amplify a message, then I am glad to do so.”

PS: People also had a page titled "Men Behaving Beautifully: Good guys still exist! These stars used their platforms to help others." They praised openly gay Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon for "using his platform to fund-raise for GLAAD's LGBTQ youth programs." And they loved ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel: 

The formerly apolitical host of JImmy Kimmel Live, 50, tackled important issues with impassioned monologues ranging from the need for universal health care to the deadly shooting in his hometown of Las Vegas and the lack of gun-control support in Congress.