Nate Parker
Nate Parker
Nate Parkeris an American actor, director, producer, writer and musical performer who has appeared in Beyond the Lights, Red Tails, The Secret Life of Bees, The Great Debaters, Arbitrage, Non-Stop, Felon and Pride. He was an All-American wrestler at both Great Bridge High School and the University of Oklahoma. Parker has been active in charitable work, donating his time both as a volunteer wrestling coach and a political activist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 November 1979
CityNorfolk, VA
CountryUnited States of America
Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.
All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about.
If a person was accused of being a racist when he was young - he said some racially insensitive thing or someone had him on tape calling someone the n-word or whatever - and then you fast forward and he feels, Oh, back then I didn't say this or that. He's not thinking about the person that he hurt when he said what he said, or however it came out, or the effects that it could have had. He's not thinking about it. He's thinking about his own self and how he feels.
If I don't know how to swim and two weeks later I know how to swim, I know how to swim.
I'm 36-years-old and I'm learning about definitions that I should have known when I started having sex.
When you're 19, getting a girl to say yes, or being a dog, or being a player, cheating. Consent is all about - for me, back then - if you can get a girl to say yes, you win.
When you're 19, a threesome is normal. It's fun.
In all actuality, we got to do better about preparing our men for their interactions with women.
When I walk home at night I don't have to worry about anything. But when a woman walks home at night she gotta think about a lot of different things.
Some people think racism is if you say the n-word, so homophobia is if you call someone...
If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have an impact.
I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.
Race I've been studying since I knew there was a problem with race and that I was Black and something was wrong. Gender, is very new to me. All I can say is this is something that I'm going to take hold of and pray about it.
I have engaged in hyper-male culture, and I'm learning about it, and I'm learning how I can change and help young boys and young men change.