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"That said, when you tell these kind of binary stories of blackness, when you tell these stories about slavery, and the civil right era, what it allows white audience members to do is to say, this depiction of race does not harm my self image because I'm not burning a cross on anybody's lawn, I don't own slaves, I'm not a racist."