Amidst Trump era racial reckoning, Louis Gossett on Hollywood's racial dilemma

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Updated July 31, 2020 at 8:08 PM

Academy award winning actor Louis Gossett Junior and former Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill join MSNBC’S Ari Melber for the latest edition of Fallback Friday. Gossett criticizes the media for its oftentimes simplistic representation of Black lives in America, harkening back to a skit he did on Saturday Night Live that touched on the same topic. McCaskill slams men critical of Biden’s shortlist of female VP candidates for being “ambitious women” and tells anyone who feels the same to fallback.

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