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Anthony, have you come
across anything that

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where you feel like, "Oh yeah,

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this is why this show endures.

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This is why fans love this show.

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Yeah, this is what keeps this show going"?

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Because of the time
that we're in right now,

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with the racial strife

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that is our world. Growing up in Indiana,

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and again, yeah, I do address this because

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it was a part of my history.

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Growing up in Indiana,

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the Klan came to
prominence in my hometown.

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So there is a very real,

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very painful thing

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that I've had to sit in,

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as far as being a black man,

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a black man in the United States,

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my whole life.

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And the one place, even as a child,

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the one place that I did not see

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that people saw or cared
about color in any way,

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and they were truly embracing
everyone's differences,

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was Star Trek.

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And I believe that Gene
Roddenberry's utopian ideal

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that we are all the same,
regardless of where we're from,

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what Scott was saying earlier,

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what planet you're from,

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whatever it is, people have
been hurting in our world

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since this thing started.

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Since the '60s, when it started.

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Everybody has been longing

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for something that connects all of us.

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And it doesn't matter if you're
half black and half white.

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If you're blue, if you're green,

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black, white, Asian, it doesn't matter.

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We are all...

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It's the human race.

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It's not a bunch of different races.

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It's the human race.

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So I feel like that longing

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to connect with something so

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much greater, that
connectivity, I feel like,

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is what has been the
enduring thing for me.