After Black Panther took home the top prize at the SAG Awards, Chadwick Boseman delivered this rousing speech about being black in Hollywood.
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00:00To be young gifted and black we all know what it's like to be told that there is not a
00:07Place for you to be featured yet. You are young gifted and black
00:23We know what it's like to be told
00:25To say there's not a screen for you to be featured on a stage for you to be featured on
00:30We know what it's like to be the tail and not the head
00:33We know what it's like to be beneath and not above
00:37And that is what we went to work with every day
00:42because we knew
00:44Not that we would be around during award season if that it would make a billion dollars, but we knew that we had something special
00:56You
01:01You know all of us are our actors we here as actors to celebrate
01:06Acting and celebrate the craft and celebrate what it means to be a Thespian
01:12And it's difficult to do that for everyone it's a difficult task
01:17But our task historically has not been the same because you know
01:22We've been relegated to playing the sidekick or the sideshow or
01:29Backstage or not here altogether