In 'Glory' he slapped Denzel Washington in the face for acting like a "swamp nigger" and got him to realize that not all white people (Matthew Broderick) were bad. He provokes imagination to our youth in the award winning science/religion program, 'Through the Wormhole'. In "Driving Miss Daisy" he was able to change the bigoted views of an old white woman from the deep south. The list goes on... I just think he sends a positive message with a lot of the roles he chooses to portrait. I bet the great American, John Wayne would even agree with me on that.
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