Angelina Jolie has waded into the race debate in the United States with her thoughts on whether her daughter will be a victim of racism and discrimination.
The 45-year-old Maleficent actress has expressed her fears that her 15-year-old daughter Zahara will be targeted by 'the system' as she grows up.
Angelina adopted Zahara from Ethiopia with her then husband Brad Pitt but she is worried that she will be mistreated at some point.
Racial tensions are high in the United States following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer and Black Lives Matter protests have dominated the news across the globe.
Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar UK about the race issue, Angelina said: "There are more than 70 million people who have had to flee their homes worldwide because of war and persecution - and there is racism and discrimination in America.
"A system that protects me but might not protect my daughter - or any other man, woman or child in our country based on skin colour - is intolerable."
Angelina continued: “We need to progress beyond sympathy and good intentions to laws and policies that actually address structural racism and impunity.
"Ending abuses in policing is just the start. It goes far beyond that, to all aspects of society, from our education system to our politics."
Angelina serves as Special Envoy of the High Commissioner for Refugees for the United Nations, praised the organisers of protests and their fight for change.
She added: "The way people are rising. Saying that they are tired with the excuses and half-measures, and showing solidarity with each other in the face of inadequate responses by those in power.
"It feels like the world is waking up, and people are forcing a deeper reckoning within their societies."
Angelina is hoping that there will be a historic change brought upon by this moment.
She continued: "It is time to make changes in our laws and our institutions – listening to those who have been most affected and whose voices have been excluded.”
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