In Africa, there is the equivalent of every “classical” instrument known to man and it predates any European instrument. There was a “technical” proficiency attached to drumming, dance, music, storytelling. Why is it “limiting” to play Black characters but white actors are “versatile” playing white characterizers? Why do I have to be small, willowy, and lighter than a paper bag to be sexual? I’m playing a character. It’s not porn. I was sold lies for two years and the worst part is that I believed it because I couldn’t combat it with anything else.
