{"id":144394,"date":"2023-12-03T13:32:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T13:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprojectsworld.com\/?p=144394"},"modified":"2023-12-03T13:32:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T13:32:25","slug":"felicity-huffman-fbi-raids-are-nothing-new-to-the-black-and-brown-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprojectsworld.com\/celebrities\/felicity-huffman-fbi-raids-are-nothing-new-to-the-black-and-brown-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Felicity Huffman: FBI raids are ‘nothing new to the Black and brown community’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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True story: while I included the video of Felicity Huffman\u2019s interview with a local ABC affiliate, I only watched about a minute of it, and I just went with People Magazine\u2019s quotes when I covered the story on Friday. To be fair, the quotes I covered were already pretty bad! Explaining why she paid thousands of dollars to pay an SAT proctor to change her daughter\u2019s answers (and ensure a higher SAT score), Felicity said: \u201cIt felt like I had to give my daughter a chance at a future. And so it was sort of like my daughter\u2019s future, which meant I had to break the law.\u201d<\/em> I was blown away by the sh-tty parenting more than anything else, as I said – to claim that you had to \u201cdo crime\u201d because you think your kid is an idiot who can\u2019t be allowed to fail. Anyway, it\u2019s even worse than that. <\/p>\n

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\u201cIt felt like I had to give my daughter a chance at a future,\u201d Huffman said in an interview with ABC7. \u201cAnd so it was sort of like my daughter\u2019s future, which meant I had to break the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huffman said Singer\u2019s name came to her highly recommended and it was a slow process for her to realize his plans involved any illegal activity.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a year, he started to say, \u2018Your daughter is not going to get into any of the colleges that she wants to,’\u201d Huffman said. \u201cAnd I believed him. And so when he slowly started to present the criminal scheme, it seems like \u2014 and I know this seems crazy at the time \u2014 but that was my only option to give my daughter a future. And I know hindsight is 20\/20, but it felt like I would be a bad mother if I didn\u2019t do it. So I did it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once the FBI investigated the operation, they brought federal charges against 33 parents who participated in the plot, including Huffman.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey came into my home,\u201d she said. \u201cThey woke my daughters up at gunpoint. Again, nothing new to the Black and brown community. Then they put my hands behind my back and handcuffed me and I asked if I could get dressed. I thought it was a hoax. I literally turned to one of the FBI people, in a flak jacket and a gun, and I went, \u2018Is this a joke?’\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[From Variety]<\/p>\n

\u201cThey woke my daughters up at gunpoint. Again, nothing new to the Black and brown community.\u201d <\/em> I just– how to even unpack this? Does she think that only <\/em>people of color get raided by the FBI? SWAT teams and FBI raids come for people of every race. It\u2019s like she\u2019s mad that she<\/em> got treated like a Black or brown person. Lady, you committed federal crimes!! The only reason you\u2019re not sitting in prison right now is because you\u2019re white and rich! <\/p>\n