At a recent event, Denzel Washington paused to answer a few questions and had the following exchange with an entertainment reporter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwnNrr9RO2Y
(transcribed by katykarter)
Reporter: there's been a lot of buzz about fake news lately. You were the subject of some fake news recently
Denzel: Oh, yea. What did they say? I'm running for president or something...what did they say?
(reporter speaks off mic) Oh, yea that I'd switched sides or support...yea yea...
Reporter: What do you make of all this fake news, does it affect you?
Denzel: "If you don't read the news, you are uninformed. If you read the news you are misinformed"
Reporter: Hmm so what do you do?
Denzel: That's a great question. What is the long-term effect of too much information? One of the effects is the need to be first. Not even to be true anymore. So what a responsibility you all have (glancing around at the reporters). To be...to tell the truth. Not just to be first but to tell the truth. We live in a society now of it's just first, who cares just get it out there. We don't care who it hurts, we don't care who we destroy, we don't care if it's true. Just say it, sell it. Anything you practice you'll get good at. Including BS.
In another interview, Denzel cuts right to the heart of the matter in our struggling society.
Reporter: For black people in particular, do you think we can truly make change as things are right now?
Denzel: Well, it starts in the home. You know, if the father is not in the home the boy will find a father in the streets. Yeah. I saw it in my generation and every generation before me and every one since. It starts in the home. You know, if the streets raise you then the judge becomes your mother and prison becomes your home.
"My wife has a saying, To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did"
-katykarter
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