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Hilaria Baldwin speaks out about cameras following her family after her husband Alec Baldwin was charged with involuntary manslaughter. @NEWSMAX #Baldwin pic.twitter.com/YNgHywNmZu
— Mike Carter (@MikeCarterTV) January 20, 2023
Her husband Alec Baldwin has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for his 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, but on Friday, Baldwin’s wife Hilaria demonstrated that even in crisis, she keeps a calm, steady focus on what’s important: as she pleaded with reporters to leave her husband and family alone, she maintained the fake Spanish accent that she has displayed on numerous occasions in the past, despite being harshly criticized for the fact that she isn’t Spanish at all. The worst thing a person can be in America today is a white American, and so Hilaria Baldwin, formerly known as Hillary Lynn Hayward-Thomas from Boston, appears determined to keep up her act.
Baldwin’s affected Spanish accent was readily apparent as she told reporters: “On a human level, you guys know I’m not going to say anything to you. You know that. So please leave my family in peace and let this all play out. OK?” Sure, but Hilaria/Hillary’s fakery overwhelmed her plea for compassion. Tim Graham of NewsBusters commented acidly: “With just a dash of Charo.” Former Fox News producer Brian Doherty of CRC Advisors quipped: “I see Hilaria has been working with Hollywood’s master dialect coach. Señor Speedy Gonzales.” Another Twitter user added: “She sound so, how you say, authentic.”
Authentic she ain’t. She claimed to be from Spain for years. Yet even after she admitted back in December 2020 that it was all an act, she has kept it up. At that time, when she was outed as the daughter of two old Boston families and not Spanish at all, she made the obligatory Maoist self-incrimination that is de rigueur nowadays. “I am a white girl. Let’s be very clear that Europe has a lot of white people in there.” But even after all the ridicule she received, Hillary is still pretending to be Hilaria. This reveals an ominous fact: in America today, being white is so demonized that some people will go to virtually any length, no matter how ridiculous it makes them look, in order to avoid the impression that they’re white.
We’ve come full circle. Back in the old South during the Jim Crow days of institutionalized racial discrimination, some light-skinned blacks tried to pass for white in an attempt to avoid the discrimination and harassment that came to blacks all too often in those days. The old folk song “Delia” mentions “men in Atlanta, tryin’ to pass for white.” Way back in the 1980s, a documentary about jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton noted, in tones of high indignation, “But he denied his blackness.” Obviously, the producers of the documentary believed that, even in the Jim Crow era, this was a moral failing on Morton’s part. He should have been true to himself. He should have been proud. The same thing could be said today about the Bostonian Hillary Thomas Baldwin.
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Mark Spahn says
In this video, she is *not* speaking with a Spanish accent, neither Castilian nor American. She speaks with a standard U.S. accent.
somehistory says
Mark,
I was born and raised in the U.S. As a native American, I don’t believe there is a “standard U.S. accent.”
Phil Copson says
Mark is saying “a” standard US accent – not “the” standard US accent.
(Though whether her delivery corresponds to any known US regional accent, is a different question…)
somehistory says
Ok, Phil. Perhaps Mark has heard someone such as she somewhere in the U.S.
I have heard many different accents across this nation…and even within a State, such as GA, there is no “standard” that I have ever heard. People from GA do not sound like people from SC. etc. So, she could be from anywhere, but she didn’t sound like anyone from Boston, for sure.
I, for one, would rather admit to being White than defend her husband.
John ..Smith says
Somehistory,
Not being an American myself I can’t tell the difference between the accents, the same way as I can here in the UK. For example I find it easy to tell the difference between someone that comes from Liverpool to someone that comes from Manchester, even though the two cities are only 34 miles apart.
As for this lady in the video, to me she doesn’t sound like a traditional American, she sounds more Hispanic like Jennifer Lopez.
somehistory says
John, I can’t tell the locations of accents from the U.K., but I have heard differences in the speech of people over there. The Beatles and Hermans’ Hermits, Chad and Jeremy…introduced me to British English and some accents from over there are very pleasing to hear.
I watch several shows made there…Midsomer Murders, Dr. Martin, and others, but I wouldn’t know from where the accents originated. I can hear some differences, though.
In the video, what I noticed most was the fact she kept putting her hand on her chest…indicating her feelings are the most important. She spoke like someone attempting to sound different…and to me…she came off sounding really fake.
For a time, there was a young actress from CA among our relatives and she spoke a lot different than others in the family circle, although we all speak the same language.
I worked for a company where I had to take calls from all over and many were from Spanish speakers. If they are from Cuba, or Puerto Rico, Honduras, etc., each can be different from all of the others. But, none sound….to me, anyway….like the fake way this attention-seeker does.
I don’t recall actively listening to Jennifer Lopez enough to know how she sounds.
John ..Smith says
Somehistory
I must of got mixed up with Jennifer lopez and someone else as I have just being listening to an interview with her on youtube.
Even though she is Hispanic she doesn’t speak with that accent.
somehistory says
John,
It is often true that a person raised in American society, even with foreign born parents, can sound like those people around them. I have had friends whose parents were of Spanish origin, and yet, they didn’t have a Spanish accent. One of my doctor’s parents are from India, but he has no accent. like Indians I have heard. He was born and raised in the States.
Perhaps that is true of Lopez.
somehistory says
She just can’t quite get the accent that true Spanish speakers have, and her word pronunciation is way off the mark. Much like when actors attempt to speak Southern…as if they are from GA, SC, etc. Faking sounds insulting to those with a truck accent.
somehistory says
True accent…not “truck”…
Rarely says
Much ado about nothing. Hilarious actually.