Name: Denzel Washington Paid for Chadwick Boseman to Study at Oxford
Uploaded: 2018-03-08T07:57:31.000Z
Duration: 5 min 18 s
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Why did you—why are you doing this dude?

You know you're gonna lose this eventually, right? You can't...

You gotta take your shirt off everywhere now.

Yeah, it's a good time to be you right now.

You got to study in... at Oxford in London?

I did an exchange while I was at Howard over summer.

and then she wanted us to do this exchange,

and so she got—and I didn't have money to pay for this—

so she got a few of her friends together, and you know,

And then you found out who one of her friends was.

and I basically have been holding this secret

When I came back, I got a beneficiary letter

and it said, "Denzel Washington paid for you."

So, you know, I never wanted to, like, ever say that

And, you know, I was doing that "Rolling Stone" interview,

I think I can -- I've made it -- I've made it to the point

I'm trying to get something from him by saying it.

The weird thing that happened is, I did the interview,

He came and I met him before the article came out.

lived up to what I originally wanted to do.

And I said, "Yeah, I gotta tell you something,

you know, you paid for me to go to school."

And he said, "Oh, so that's why I'm here.

I mean, obviously it's based -- it's a Marvel movie.

It's a comic-book movie, but it's bigger than that.

Uh... I mean, it's a lot of different things.

You know, you always get what you bring to a viewing.

Part of it was -- what has been very interesting is --

especially at this particular time, while the "Me Too," "Time's Up"

This adds another layer to that conversation,

a very, very good layer to the conversation.

So I think people have really, really responded

I think the relationship between Killmonger and T'Challa,

an African-American trying to connect to his roots.

And that conversation is one that I think is happening

on a platform that you wouldn't normally see happen.

So you see Africans viewing African-Americans

in a different way, and African-Americans

viewing themselves and Africa in a different way.

And everyone else is privy to that conversation.

And so I think that is a very, very healthy thing for people

to become more specific about their identity

In most cases, you see people trying to water down things

when you talk about diversity... 		-Yeah.

...as opposed to embracing what they actually are.

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Denzel Washington Paid for Chadwick Boseman to Study at Oxford

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