Wayne Brady is known for making people laugh, but the multi-talented star got serious about police brutality in a recent video he shared on social media.
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Brady’s video is just a reminder that mundane tasks like running errands could result in a life or death situation depending on the color of your skin.
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“To anyone that says all lives matter [and] it’s not about black lives, I can only be concerned about my black life right now at this moment, when I was pulling in, because there’s a chance that I could have won a very f*cked up lottery,” he says.
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The Whose Line Is It Anyway regular discussed the video during a recent interview with on The Talk and explained that being a celebrity doesn’t shield him from discrimination.
“There’s a tangible fear that black people have when we are doing things like driving, or now like jogging, I have to be aware of the clothing that I have on.