Anthony Mackie expresses his views on racism, says 'preparing my children for future'

American actor Anthony Mackie, who plays Sam Wilson aka Falcon in  Marvel movies, recently expressed his views on ongoing civil unrest in US regarding death of George Floyd. actor opened up about same to a a media outlet and said that during childhood he aspired to be a fireman or a police officer, but after watching what happened some time back, actor called it a harsh reality which he feels that his children should kw.

Anthony Mackie expresses views on racism

actor while elaborating upon statement said that, opening eyes of kids to what world is around m, to how police view m as young black men is very tough for him. actor reportedly said that he wants his sons to dream big but also wants to keep m in touch with reality and prepare m for difficult future. Anthony said that his children don't understand lack of humanity in a person to do that to ar person. y are 11 and 7-years-old. He furr recalled incident of visiting balcony where Martin Lur King was assassinated, and that moment overwhelmed actor with emotions. He explained that emotion just blew his mind to think that this man worked so hard, and gave his life. Yet people here are dealing with exact same thing and thing has changed much.

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Anthony elucidates furr and said that this is one thing which hurts him most because his grandfar was a sharecropper and his far was a contractor. actor had to drop out of school in eighth grade to work with his grandfar so that he could give him opportunity to go to Juilliard and become an actor.

Earlier, actor called out Marvel for ir hiring process and said that it bored him as all seven films of Marvel that he has done every producer, every director, every stunt person, every costume designer, every PA, every single person has been white.  actor also pointed out that even Marvel’s superhit film Black Panr, which was praised for its on-screen diversity, did t have a diverse crew. He explained that even though film had a black producer, and cast was mostly back, production crew consisted of white people. He reportedly said that team had one Black producer; his name was Nate Moore. 

He said that hiring black people for a film like Black was completely a racist thing. He furr said that if people can hire Black people for Black movie, this indicates that y are t good eugh when a film mostly has a white cast. actor later reportedly suggested that studio should focus on hiring best person for job regardless of his/her race, , or any or related factors.

actor decided to open up about issue amid ongoing Black Lives Matter movement against death of George Floyd and all or black victims of police brutality. Earlier this month, as per reports, during an appearance on an American show, actor spoke about how social issue affects him as a black far and a black son. He mentioned that black people have to face reality of society at a very young .

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