Jamie Foxx picked up another award for his performance in Just Mercy as Walter McMillian, a black man in Alabama wrongly condemned to death row for a murder he did not commit. On Wednesday night, F…
!’ I was doing comedy in Chicago and I had my hoodie on, and I went to this hotel years ago, and the hotel was really nice and white… a lot of white people were at the hotel,” he explained in his acceptance speech.Foxx recalled when he stepped onto an elevator with some of the hotel’s well-heeled female patrons, the women were terrified.
“I get on the elevator and there were some white people on the elevator, and when they saw me, they huddled into the corner. ‘Michelle, Michelle, get over here. Stacy, Stacy, get over here,'” he recalled the women saying. “They were scared, but then one of the ladies had the courage to look past my hoodie and saw that it was me. She said, ‘It’s Jamie Foxx.’ Phew!”The audience laughed, but Foxx said the story is an example that racism is real.
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