refused to follow orders to remain on the property until authorities arrived.

without Jake and his burgeoning abilities Roland would be lost and fairly hopeless, as he is destitute and fighting a losing battle.

What is disappointing?

despite the fact that you have privilege where you come from, and you look down on other people, here in America, and to a lot of white people specifically, you’re a nigger all the same.

I chipped a filling once on a hard piece of honeydew in those fucking store-brand fruit platters. It was my old boss’ idea of healthy snack. Dickhead.

like those bigoted honeydew melons and racist-ass cantaloupes.

increasingly the *only* way they can get ahead professionally and they gotta protect that check.

Um, no. Elba comes from West African parents who, despite colonialism, didn’t endure what the black American’s ancestors endured. There are similarities but as a whole, to think that a child of West Africans, who grew up in the UK, can somehow tap into the same experiences as Jackson is absurd.

A. Mess.

You act like anti-black racism was never, and is not now, a thing in the UK...

Yeah. Plenty of West Indians and Africans who move to the US love to shit on black Americans. Nothing new there. Cultural exchanges obviously occur but how do you explain away a Somali mother cautioning her child in Toronto to stay away from those black girls? Black here doesn’t refer to us, the Somali.

You don’t think there’s a kinship between blacks in America and blacks in England? Or other parts of the world?

If Canadian films only used French actors to portray Quebecois characters, I can assure you that many Quebecois would not like but to non-Quebecois folks, it might seem inane to get upset over something like that. The thing is that black folks have always been portrayed in a light that reflects white notions of who…

I understand Jackson’s concerns with Hollywood’s lack of roles for black people, but that’s a Hollywood problem. 

Who rang you and asked for your cents girl?

If there’s no dissent, one cannot advance the cause of change. I’m firm believer in the idea of an anti-thesis. Society is better for having opinions which clash with its norms, customs, and laws.

“I was really disappointed in those comments. We are dissected as a people, why dissect us any further, as a comment that’s as stupid as that,” Elba told The Root in an interview.

Roger G. Chenault of Washington Boro

I was kidding too which is why I quoted HRC.