W. Kamau Bell

And there was a black woman who works in school who asked her to and Sammy did it.

And I said, Sammy, you got to learn the words.

You got to like me.

You can't fump her through any of it.

We're probably not going to do the second verse, but learned it anyway.

And so that's a kid who is like, just through the power of her voice, because she has a good voice, is engaging in a little bit of activism by teaching some white kids in her school and some non-black kids about the words of their voice and saying.

And so for me, there's more than one way to do this, but I think it's important that my kids learn.

are aware of what's going on in the world.

And my 10 year old who's pretty shy, like I was when I was her age, I go, look, you're never gonna get in trouble with me if you're defending yourself or somebody else.

who needs to be defended you think needs to be defended and that's a very basic thing but i think it's cool you might hear the teacher said i can do this and that i go whatever the teacher says you come home to me and we'll take care of it and so for me creating a sense of like justice is not always in the hands of authority that justice is sometimes the thing you see that authority will tell you not to see and so we are engaged in those conversations regularly you know in our household and we also celebrate kwanzaa which is the final piece of raising of

Black family.

An entire cupboard of people who are not excellent.

Not excellent, right?

Oh, no, no.

First of all, we're still adding dates.

And I will be in Durham and Charleston.

So I don't know how close those are.

Well, I mean, so, you know, a lot of us who work in the, the sort of the showbiz, I was going to try to figure out a nicer way to say it, but just in Hollywood had the one, two punch of, so post George Floyd's murder by Minneapolis, Hollywood was like, we need to talk to more black creators and we need to give them a voice and let them.

And so a lot of projects were greenlit in that moment.

One of the projects that I got was a thousand percent me growing up mixed.