Child actor Lonnie Chavis has detailed the racism he’s already experienced at 12 years old in a powerful new essay.
Lonnie, who plays the young Randall on the NBC comedy-drama, noted he “actually didn’t learn about being Black and what that would mean for me” until he was 7.
“Being a young Black boy in Hollywood made it even more fearful,” Lonnie recalled, remembering being “treated very poorly by security or entrance checkers” at events “like I wasn’t supposed to be there, until I had a publicist to announce me.”
Lonnie also wrote about being routinely mistaken for other Black child actors and being racially profiled at a restaurant.
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