The (white) Los Angeles newscaster who haplessly mixed up Samuel L. Jackson and Laurence Fishburn is the gift that keeps on giving. It's certainly where comedian David Alan Grier starts in this PSA for white people on Jimmy Kimmel Live:
There's only one good response to such an airtight argument: Well said, Keegan-Michael Key. --Peter Weber
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