An emotional Kristin Davis recalls adopted daughter experiencing racism as a baby

Kristin Davis says she will never fully understand what her two adopted black children are going through.

“It’s one thing to be watching [racism] happening to other people and it’s another thing when it’s your child. And you haven’t personally been through it. It’s a big issue,” she told Jada Pinkett Smith and Adrienne Banfield Norris on the most recent episode of “Red Table Talk.”

The “Sex and the City” star then spoke — through tears — about experiencing racism with daughter Gemma Rose, now 7, when she was an infant, saying she was “horrified” that people said the little girl would grow up to become a “great basketball player.”

She later said that she once noticed a young white girl holding a swing for her friend across the playground despite Gemma patiently waiting for her turn. When she confronted school administrators, Davis says they dismissed her by saying: “We just see them all the same. We don’t see color.”

“It was a very harsh moment of understanding,” Davis, 54, said of the experience. “I don’t know how every person of color has gotten through this. I don’t understand how you could take this every day.”

“This is what I want to say, from a white person adopting [black children], you absolutely do not fully understand,” she also noted regarding white privilege. “There’s no doubt. There’s no way you could.”

“It lit a fire under me where I couldn’t be relaxed or casual [about racism],” Davis said. “But I will never be black, no matter how hard I try. … That is the truth, and we have to accept it. And therefore I will never be able to say to Gemma, ‘I understand how you feel because this happened to me.’”

“That’s what’s painful and hard,” Davis added. “It made me on a mission to find a place where she was exposed to everything. It made me on a mission to put her in situations where I was the only white person.”

Davis also said that she’s beginning to worry about raising a black boy in America. Her son is 1 year old.

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