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Alec Baldwin was an A-list Hollywood actor in the 90s. Then he got too fat to be a leading man and switched to TV. Most recently he has been a recurring guest star on the famously unfunny sketch comedy show SNL, where he periodically portrays President Trump. He’s also been able to return to the silver screen in animated films like “Boss Baby” where he’s not required to appear on camera.
Despite his declining career and increasing weight, in 2012, Baldwin was able to marry Hilaria Thomas, a Manhattan yoga instructor 26 years his junior. Hilaria, who sometimes, but not always, speaks with a Spanish accent, claims to be a native Spanish speaker born in Spain.
Some are casting doubt on these claims though, including left-wing ethnic activists who are usually aligned with Baldwin.
For nearly a decade, @Latina touted @hilariabaldwin, a white woman with white parents from Massachusetts. During this time, the magazine has been accused of erasing black latinas, and publishing pieces about how white latinas are somehow discriminated for not being dark enough. https://t.co/Hd0nqVKefG
— Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) December 25, 2020
Since being an immigrant (especially an undocumented immigrant!) has become a type of chic identity, let’s be clear: IF YOU’RE BORN TO A US CITIZEN PARENT IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, YOU ARE A US CITIZEN. If you arrive in the US with a US passport, you are a US citizen, not an immigrant.
— Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) December 25, 2020
Being an actual immigrant, having an actual accent, those are things that exist and are particular to certain people. Immigrants of color with accents find it even more challenging. It’s beyond offensive that @hilariabaldwin pretended to be someone she’s not.
— Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) December 25, 2020
Another Twitter user dug even deeper into Hilaria’s background and uncovered videos of her speaking with and without an accent.
Fake Spanish accent debut – this woman grew up in Massachusetts pic.twitter.com/TZO47iHgO7
— elena ilana alana alina elana (not) (@lenibriscoe) December 21, 2020
Where did your accent go Hmm pic.twitter.com/U9DLc5VnSg
— elena ilana alana alina elana (not) (@lenibriscoe) December 21, 2020
Further investigation revealed that her supposed Spanish mother also speaks without an accent and grew up in Massachusetts.
Hilary’s Google results say she was born to a Spanish mother and yet here we have her very American sounding mother talking about growing up in Massachusetts and Hilary’s grandfather was a college professor in the 1960s in Longmeadow: https://t.co/uOj06D7WIB
— elena ilana alana alina elana (not) (@lenibriscoe) December 21, 2020
If Hilaria, who some claim is really named Hillary, was actually born in Spain as she claims, she was likely born there while her mother was doing a semester abroad at college. But it appears she may not be Spanish on her father’s side either.
Here she is pretending her native language is Spanish https://t.co/s92suHFCir pic.twitter.com/9WtJUCqvxS
— elena ilana alana alina elana (not) (@lenibriscoe) December 21, 2020
Nevertheless, Hilaria is nothing if not committed to the bit. She has 5 children with Baldwin and gave all of them traditional Hispanic names.
Hilaria (née Hilary) has children with the following names:
Carmen Gabriela
Rafael Thomas*
Leonardo Ángel David
Romeo Alejandro
Eduardo Pau LucasThomas is her maiden name otherwise she probably would have gone with Tomás I’m surprised she didn’t
— elena ilana alana alina elana (not) (@lenibriscoe) December 21, 2020
Her accent does seem to change more often than the weather…
No accent in 2018 pic.twitter.com/YiBNNds9Ds
— elena ilana alana alina elana (not) (@lenibriscoe) December 21, 2020
In 2019 she had no issue pronouncing moments with no accent …multiple times… pic.twitter.com/qRqCYe6zF0
— elena ilana alana alina elana (not) (@lenibriscoe) December 21, 2020
The Twitter sleuth claims her real name is Hillary Hayward-Thomas.
https://t.co/u7JjyKzukB pic.twitter.com/94G9j0oOvS
— elena ilana alana alina elana (not) (@lenibriscoe) December 24, 2020
This may actually be a smart strategy. Claiming Hispanic heritage and buttressing those claims with Hispanic-sounding names may one day help her children get admitted to elite colleges which otherwise use Affirmative Action to discriminate against white Christian Americans.
It’s anyone’s guess if Hilaria’s claims, if they are fraudulent, are an attempt to game the system or if she legitimately believes them in her own mind. Regardless, it could be the latest example in a long list of white liberals fraudulently claiming non-white heritage — a list that includes former Spokane, Washington NAACP President Rachel Dolezal and US Senator and failed presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren.
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