The actor got emotional recalling how his father came to live with him (via toofab)
, who opened up his home to both of his parents -- years after they divorced each other!
"Doing this project is personal, being a black man and the perception of us in America is that we're guilty of a crime," he began, before touching on his father's own arrest. "They put my father in jail for $25 of illegal substance, they put him in jail for 7 years. This man was an educator in the hood, in the inner cities, educating kids. The judge -- [who my father] would have come to the school to talk to the kids -- presided over his case and put him in jail.
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