Hilaria Baldwin penned a heartfelt note to her four children, who she shares with husband Alec Baldwin, about fighting for a world without prejudice on Tuesday.
‘Dear babies everywhere, so many people working hard to make this world a better place for you, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation,’ the fitness guru captioned an adorable Instagram Story of one of her four little ones.
The doting mom also shared a selfie of herself recording a podcast with Dr. Aliza Pressman on discussing race issues with sons Romeo Alejandro David, 2, Leonardo Ángel Charles, 3, and Rafael Thomas, 5, plus daughter Carmen Gabriela, 6.
Proud parents: Hilaria Baldwin penned a heartfelt note to her four children with husband Alec Baldwin about fighting to create a world without prejudice on Tuesday; seen in 2019
In the close-up, Hilaria looked stunning with a demure smile and her dark tresses styled in a half-up, half-down hairstyle in front of a microphone.
Her posts comes after her husband received backlash for promoting his new podcast interview with controversial director Woody Allen on #BlackoutTuesday.
The 30 Rock star was immediately met with fury from his followers for not only his choice to sit down with Allen, who has been accused of sexual assault by his adopted daughter, but also for his ‘tone-deaf’ timing.
‘Dear babies everywhere, so many people working hard to make this world a better place for you, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation,’ the fitness guru captioned an adorable Instagram Story
BlackoutTuesday was devised to disrupt the work week by stopping production and social media promotion in order to reflect and focus time and energy on promoting black artists, businesses and projects.
On Tuesday, the 62-year-old actor shared a shot of director Woody Allen on his Instagram with a long caption hyping up their conversation on his podcast, Here’s The Thing.
Allen came on as a guest to discuss his controversial new memoir, Apropos of Nothing.
Speaking up: Hilaria also shared a selfie of herself recording a podcast with Dr. Aliza Pressman on discussing race issues with sons Romeo Alejandro David, 2, Leonardo Ángel Charles, 3, and Rafael Thomas, 5, plus daughter Carmen Gabriela, 6
Defending himself: Alec Baldwin is facing backlash for promoting his new podcast interview with controversial director Woody Allen on #BlackoutTuesday and then he doubled down on his choices after being met with fury from his followers
‘Woody Allen’s new book, Apropos of Nothing, starts with a portrait of his father, a tough-guy World War One Navy veteran and onetime gunman in a firing squad,’ Baldwin’s caption read.
‘It’s the first of a series of surprising, fascinating stories from a life that went from working-class Jewish Brooklyn in the 1940s to movie sets in Rome and Paris.’
‘The book also addresses the accusation of an incident of sexual abuse leveled by Dylan Farrow. Allen and Alec cover it all — plus how he’s doing in the age of coronavirus — in this candid and wide-ranging interview.’
Backlash: Followers immediately took umbrage with Baldwin for his choice to interview Allen, who has been accused of sexually molesting his adopted daughter when she was seven, and the fact that he posted the promo messages on #BlackoutTuesday
In 1992 Dylan Farrow, Allen’s estranged adopted daughter with ex-Mia Farrow, accused him of sexually molesting her when she was seven years old.
Now 34, Dylan later repeated her allegations several time as an adult and, for his part, Woody has long denied her accusations.
‘I’ve worked on three Woody Allen films, each being a highlight of my career,’ Alec Baldwin wrote in a second post promoting his podcast.
‘National day of whatever’: Alec went on to tell his followers he had ‘no idea’ about #blackouttuesday and added the ‘professional lives of some people cannot be put on hold at the whims of political correctness’
A time to pause: BlackoutTuesday was devised to disrupt the work week by stopping production and social media promotion in order to reflect and focus time and energy on promoting black artists, businesses and projects.
Adding: ‘Today he joins me on my podcast and we talk about everything from his mentors, to his method of directing, and the accusation of sexual abuse.’
His followers seemed floored that Baldwin went ahead with his business-as-usual promotional posts, which came on the same day as #BlackoutTuesday.
‘Always love following your account but this is a tone deaf thing to post today,’ one person quipped.
Others added things like ‘I am speechless, ‘Are you serious?’ and ‘accused him of being ‘dismissive’ and ‘defending a pedophile.’
In defense: Baldwin later reposted a call to action from his 24-year-old daughter Ireland about how the black squares are overtaking feeds and suppressing black voices and she came to his defense in comments
Despite some people trying to give Baldwin the benefit of the doubt, he actually doubled down on his relationship with Allen and the timing of his posts calling Blackout Tuesday a ‘national day of whatever.’
Alec jumped into the comments with a lengthy response explaining away his choices because he was obligated to promote the episode as his guests ‘have either requested or required a specific posting date in order to promote a project.’
‘We make every effort to honor those requests. Allen is no exception,’ he said. ‘As for the perceived lack of sensitivity re BlackOutTuesday, I had no idea about this…national day of whatever.’
Social media: As part of Blackout Tuesday, social media users have been sharing blank black images to show solidarity, like this one by Justin Bieber; Those images have been met with some criticism by many who see them as a hollow gesture that serves to clog up feeds and silence black voices.
Baldwin also suggested that viral hashtags didn’t do much good for the overall cause and said ‘voting, and working to enroll others to vote, is more…practical.’
He reposted a call to action from his 24-year-old daughter Ireland about how the black squares are overtaking feeds.
She responded in the comments defending her her dad: ‘Although the black squares are a sign of solidarity, I’m shedding light to the posts that my black activist friends are continuing to post and get out there.