Denzel Washington speaks out: Don’t ‘blame the system’ for black incarceration, ‘it starts at home’

these are dangerous people i'm concerned about you you don't just walk away from this i'm not walking away i can finish this each one of us is greater than the worst thing we've ever done [Music] jamal finkley blacktree tv anytime you're ready you gotta be one of the greatest actors of all time you definitely unlock me thank you but i wonder like what was the actor that made you get up and get into it like was there was there somebody that you seen perform you know i see jen i saw james earl jones do oedipus the king at saint john the divine cathedral i saw a taxi driver i saw uh just actors on stage that you wouldn't even know he's like how did they do that i'm still seeing people i saw mark rylance and i was inspired you know you you you find out that yeah maybe i can do that and then you see those that really can do it you know i never wanted to be an actor but uh ignorance is bliss yeah you know yeah would you have played basketball i know you was playing i played a little basket look i started rubbing my knees soon just interesting psychosomas [Applause] i started playing a little basketball i was all right i'm from a great basketball town my vernon new york we had a lot of great players uh i played a little football but i didn't make the nfl but my son did yeah but uh you know it worked out it was something i read where you talked about your people from mount vernon saying that you know like they've done like 40 years in a penitentiary together and you know incarceration rates in america has been a problem especially as opposed to minorities and roman delves into this the issues around the legal system do you think we've made any headway and i think it's more important to make headway in our own house by the time the system comes into play the damage is done they're not locking up seven-year-olds yeah you know i i was in chicago a couple of three four weeks ago and we saw these little kids on bikes with masks on the side of the head like five or six of them and the driver said yeah these little yummies i said who said little yummies look up google a little yummy little yummy was a 11 year old murderer wow and you look at his picture you'll see this head shot of him he's like this and he got murdered at 11 by a 14 year old wow who's doing life now and a 16 year old that makes no sense you blame the system where was his father it starts in the house it starts in the home and yeah well my father got locked up where was his father yeah you know like i i did talk about my three closest friends and they did you know 15 to 25 one did 28 this and that i was the only one of the three that had a father in my life even though my parents were together but i still had a father who was a gentle man and a good example and they didn't we can blame the system if we want but they didn't lock any of us up at seven yeah we were all doing enough to get locked up at 13 my parents sent me in another direction they didn't have anybody to help them and they kept doing what they was doing and the system got them so i i don't the system is rigged but why all the more reason not to help it speaking of fatherhood olivia malcolm jd all doing great things and jd is now working with spike right now you're a black clans man i want to know like hey do you have any advice for him i'm working once we were talking this morning we were talking about an hour and a half this morning and i'm proud of them all my daughter's doing uh shakespeare shami taming of the shrew in chicago my other sons afi graduate penn graduate got a more house graduate nyu graduate a yale graduate you know my wife did a great job you know and uh but to answer your question yeah we we you know it's hard when your father you know yeah not to i'm trying to stay out of it but you know i'm his father you know but what he asked me you know and i told him i said man roll with spike spike i learned how to really improvise and flow with spike yeah you know we're more better blues and all the rest of them and and he's learning that now and uh so i'm proud of them all appreciate your time

Channel: Bad TV

Views: 2,387,048

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Id: O0dCvQdt5XI

Length: 4min 51sec (291 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 27 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/AngryAsian26]

Hes one of those black white supremacists you hear so much about...this is obviously a joke guys

[u/phil82245]

Damn Denzel. I wonder if they’ll come for him.

[u/Zmxm]

True

[u/DOCpatches45]

Secure for heavy seas Denzel, hope they don’t come for you! Brave to speak up in these crazy times.

[u/The_DILinator]

I'd love to hear a more current take from him. This is from 3 years ago, and while I don't doubt that his views are likely unchanged, his public tune may have. Even Morgan Freeman has spoken out against systemic racism many times in the past, but has now shrunk back from the more hard-line stance in tweets recently. Not having a social media presence certainly helps Denzel stay out of the cross-hairs on this, but you know the cancel culture mob is just salivating to ask him about it, and force him to answer.

Regardless, Denzel is awesome, my favorite actor, and an incredibly astute, and intelligent individual, with some of the most nuanced takes on a variety of issues in all of Hollywood!

[u/[deleted]]

My man!!

[u/RamboaRed]

4:05 mark

[u/bordemthemindkiller]

Systemics

[u/vickyzumba]

Trump has done more help to black community than anyother president period.