Denzel Washington on the Black Lives Matter movement

I want to just ask you though about the issue of race relations because the film touches upon that right now under President Obama over the last eight years in your mind has raised average relations improved under his leadership you know race relationships have to do with race relationships your white or whatever you are I'm black or whatever I am we're standing here talking now that's how we get things done you can't legislate love the president United States can't legislate us into liking each other we have to step forward and ask questions about each other and engage there's no law that says oh because I'm president you all got to get along now so it's up to us and there's been so many protests in America especially during the election black lives matter movement for example and those issues has that movement in particular the black lives matter movement helped race relations or not in America well listen we live in America and in America we have the freedom to express ourselves we shouldn't take that for granted so whatever the movements are whether you agree with them or don't they have the right to express himself so that's one of the great things about being in this country that you do have the right to protest

Channel: Nicholas Ballasy

Views: 7,188,296

Keywords: denzel washington, movement, barack obama, donald trump, hillary clinton, race relations, diversity, black lives, matter, BLM, George Floyd, breonna taylor, protest, protests, interview, black lives matter

Id: nwsvpHx-vu0

Length: 1min 13sec (73 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 19 2016

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