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Actor Trevor Jackson talks about how the issues on Grown-ish relates to his personal life.
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00:00What of all the things that you've tackled, I know you guys have talked about interrelational relationships and, you know, colorism, like dealing with, like, you know, preferences, dealing with all that sort of thing, toxic masculinity, toxic masculinity.
00:13What of these issues that you guys have tackled on the show have been kind of personal for you and made you examine some things about your own thought processes?
00:22I think definitely cultural expectations, you know, different things like that, you know, what's true to you and are you doing it because it's true to you or are you doing it because it's true to your culture?
00:39And I think at some point, I don't know, me, I'm just very, like, I'm part of the human race, you know what I'm saying?
00:45And although I recognize the struggles that I have to face as a black man, I think the only way to heal that is to start making a conversation about all of us.
00:52But I think I always say this, I've said this in other interviews, one of the biggest things was the college, you know, the divestment in private prisons, but also, like, the college players not getting the right amount of funds and things like that.
01:07And how much, you know, we're being used and how much people are gaining off of our work and, you know, talents that at the time I wasn't really aware of.
01:16But obviously, I'm a little more educated now.
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