アイオン・ベイリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (アイオン・ベイリーInstagram)「This summer I was offered a Hallmark Christmas film about finding love. Hallmark has been in the news a few times in the last couple of years, first for being accused of not allowing interracial couples in their backgrounds (let alone their leads), and second for pulling a commercial that featured a same sex marriage ceremony. After many raised their voices the commercial was put back on, and now this. Some of you know I am married to a Black woman and we have two sons. Just days before I received the offer to do the film my wife showed me a news story about flyers delivered to hundreds of homes not far from where we live. The flyer featured a photo of a couple, a Black man and a White woman, they look happy, in love, likely married. What was written beneath them was a description of how dangerous their union is, for themselves, their children, and society at large. The author, or authors, denounced interracial marriage as “a health risk to society”, and listed a number of "medical facts” about the low IQ’s of the children who come from these unions. It was interesting to marvel at the concepts promoted in this ‘Public service announcement’ in 2020. I feel such deep sadness for the person or people who wrote this message with such a profound schism at its core; A Happy couple, in Love, linked to the authors own suffocating illness, Fear. What energy it must take for someone to construct a house in their mind of such exclusion, a house where understanding is not welcome, all the windows sealed, curtains drawn, the front door boarded up, the inhabitants deathly afraid of,,, drum roll please,,, Love. Everything I do is connected to either Fear or Love; I doubt there is anyone who operates on a different paradigm. What separates ‘who we are’, from ‘what we could be’, is how often we choose one or the other. I am grateful to this cast and especially the wonderful @alvinaaugust, my partner in this film. It’ll be the first movie my kids will see where the woman I fall in love with looks like their mom. They might not see the significance in this, it is just reflecting their life, and that is just the way it should be. #hallmarkchristmasmovies」10月25日 4時37分