Poor Old Meryl

[Svejk]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12152500/We-are-all-Africans-really-Meryl-Streep-comes-under-fire-for-her-response-to-film-festival-diversity.html

[Svejk]

I mean, she's technically correct, isn't she?

[DaisyNonna]

Was she referring to the theory that all life began in Africa?

[Svejk]

I reckon. You have to be careful what you say nowadays.

[Old_Geezer]

If one in the public one doesn't say what they mean then they can expect a backlash from the Net. We may have ancestors from so long ago that they are forgotten, and who were born in Africa, but most of us around today were born elsewhere.

Foot in mouth disease.

[bazwillrun]

But some of us evolved a bit more than others and moved on...

[jomifl]

An all white panel in Berlin....wot no syrians?