He said: “There’s certain inequities going on in the world, and abuses, but you can’t deny, as African-Americans, that we are progressing.
He told The Independent: “We have to acknowledge those things and those movements, but that doesn’t change the fact that people are suffering through inequities of healthcare, economics, abuses, brutality, those things are still occurring. And so we have to continue to try to correct those problems.”
Speaking in 2013 about the state of the world at the time, he explained: “It’s clear that things are always getting better in one way or another.
“It’s going from living in chains once upon a time to producing the leader of the free world. That’s a happy ending – enjoy it!”
Whitaker also observed that racial inequality isn’t unique to the US.
He said: “In Sweden they’ll be rioting against immigrants, in France they’re stopping women wearing burqas. You’ve had riots in Brixton in the past.”
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