What do “the struggles of the commoners” have to do with the subject of the conference, which, as we have repeatedly told you, was not commoners and their struggles, but race and the arts? Having been a child actor, Ms. Shahidi is certainly qualified to talk about her experience as a child actor compared to the experience of white child actors. If you believe that child actors can’t be “commoners,” then no “commoner” could talk about being a child actor. But she could.