Keya Murthy

I watched the movie to understand this lady, and I think I get her. She's running from her past for sure. She is lying to herself. She can support black people with all her heart, mind, thoughts, and action, but why does she have to call herself black when she is not. It's like many "spiritual" people want to take on an Indian name and call it their spiritual name. I feel she was a black person in her past life and so she is using that from the recess of her hippocampus - who knows. How she used her two older sons was not fair to them. In the end, she lost them. I know many Indians who say they are white on the inside, but if they walked around and filled out white on some official document, they would be in jail. Many Indians bleach their skin but they can't call themselves white and expect to get away, can they? She wants to be famous, she puts up social media posts and wants society to leave her baby alone. It's hard being her, I know. When poor people pretend to be wealthy, when the wealthy find out they are not wealthy, usually they are not friends anymore. The black people have a point, she didn't go through black people's trouble, so how can they identify with her? Hindi is a gender-sensitive language. I grew up as a female in India. When I wrote in Hindi, I wrote as if I was a boy. My teacher gave me a zero on the paper. She said you may wish you were a boy, but you are not, and I want you to learn the language as if you are a girl, otherwise, you will confuse your audience. It's like that! Many people think I am Mexican and the Mexican people love me as their own, but both them and I know I am not a Mexican. I guess if she wants the Black people to accept her, she has to accept that she is white and go love them and fight for them. When she says "race is a social construct" then why does she call herself black? Black is a social construct, is it not? Her struggle doesn't glorify her, so how can a movie about her be glorious? Many things she wanted to get away with is white people's privilege. My kids wanted to grow up and be white so they would be loved/accepted/have an easier time. They didn't grow up to be white. They created lives for themselves as brown citizens - and this is ever-evolving. Mom's make sacrifices for their children, her sons have to make sacrifices for her. It's hard for both mother and children, I get it. She has no self-acceptance and that is something she will have to learn. If she can't accept herself how can anyone else? If I wear a wig and makeup, that's a character I am pretending to be, that's not me! Period!