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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Article on Medium about Blake and Ryan’s racist past and the irony that she found shooting the scene with a prosthetic belly, black briefs and a hospital gown humiliating and invasive yet is demanding full access to Natasha Heath’s birth video.

Also had a chilling photo from their wedding set up in front of the slaves quarters. I also didn’t realize how crazy out of touch her lifestyle brand was - I knew it was called Preserve but I didn’t realize it was all about the antebellum south.

https://medium.com/@eumoniadike/blake-lively-and-ryan-reynolds-tried-to-prevent-a-black-man-from-defending-himself-in-court-and-275155890477[/quote]

This article is weird because it lumps clueless at best and most likely racist behavior on Blake's part with tangentially tying Ryan to the death of a black woman on one of his sets. I think the article is written to somehow imply that race was an issue in that case, but doesn't even suggest that and doesn't suggest that Ryan had anything at all to do with what happened. The only tie is that he was making the movie and while his production company wasn't actually even a defendant in her family's suit, the suit settled after they threatened to add a large number of parties including that production company. I actually think it's incredibly sloppy journalism to equate that to Blake's Antebellum racist nightmare and it makes me think the author had an agenda... making me question whether the Snipes and Johnson anecdotes have anything to do with race (which it's really not clear that they do even by the article's terms).

Ultimately, I am uncomfortable by the work the article does to paint badmouth Reynolds and suspect it is likely a hit piece of the type Stephanie Jones has been behind and the article criticizes.[/quote]

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