Idris Elba is taking aim at the woke forces who are slamming him for saying he does not want to be known only as a 'black actor,' calling the backlash 'stupid.'
“I stopped describing myself as a black actor when I realized it put me in a box,” he said.
Elba did not deny that racism can be “very real,” but he also said he feels that people can become obsessed with racism to their own detriment. “As humans, we are obsessed with race. And that obsession can really hinder people’s aspirations, hinder people’s growth. Racism should be a topic for discussion, sure. Racism is very real,” Elba said. “But from my perspective, it’s only as powerful as you allow it to be. We’ve got to grow. We’ve got to. Our skin is no more than that: It’s just skin.”He added that he didn’t become an actor because he wanted to see more black people in the profession.
“I might be the first to look like me to do a certain thing. And that’s good, to leave as part of my legacy,” he said. “So that other people, black kids, but also white kids growing up in the circumstances I grew up in, are able to see there was a kid who came from Canning Town who ended up doing what I do. It can be done.”
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