‘The Butler’ Director: U.S. More Racist Now That Obama’s President
Jessica Chasmar, Washington Times, August 20, 2013
Award-winning director Lee Daniels, best known for “Precious” and “The Butler,” said that Americans are showing their true racist colors now that a black man is in the White House.
Mr. Daniels made the comment during an appearance on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Live” Monday night, after Mr. Morgan asked if the nation is more or less racist since Barack Obama was elected president.
“That’s a powerful question,” Mr. Daniels said. “I think that people are angry that he’s president and I think that they are showing their true colors and I think that when Danny Strong wrote those words, ‘any black man could be killed by any white man and get away with it,’ Trayvon Martin had not happened. I end the movie with hope. He’s walking down and Obama’s giving that famous speech and then I come out of my edit room and Trayvon Martin has happened.”
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“The Butler,” which stars Forest Whitaker, debuted at the number one spot over the weekend, raking in approximately $25 million.
