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Jarett Wieselman has a Buzzfeed article about racial prejudice:

An OutFront segment about the viral clip of Samuel L. Jackson reacting to a reporter who mistook him for Laurence Fishburne featured CNN’s own Don Lemon, who told host Erin Burnett, “People do look alike,” adding that he has trouble telling some groups of people apart. Using himself as an example, Lemon said that people used to confuse him with former CNN employee T.J. Holmes all the time, but he’d just laugh it off and say: “I’m the other black guy.”Samuel L. Jackson appeared on Los Angeles, California morning show KTLA to talk about his new film Robocop, but promotion was the last thing on the actor’s mind after anchor Sam Rubin confused him with Laurence Fishburne.

While rattling off his recent list of professional accomplishments, Rubin included a Super Bowl commercial. But Jackson didn’t actually appear in a Super Bowl commercial last weekend, Laurence Fishburne did.
“I’m not Laurence Fishburne,” Jackson exclaimed after a painfully long silence. “We don’t all look alike! We may be black and famous, but we do not all look alike!”
A clearly embarrassed Rubin, realizing his error, apologized and tried to steer the conversation back to the movie. But Jackson wasn’t having it.
Rubin: “Let’s talk about Robocop.”
Jackson: “Oh, hell no! Really? Really?”
Jackson then proceeded to further distinguish himself from Fishburne. “There’s more than one black guy doing commercials. I’m the What’s in your wallet? black guy,” Jackson said, referring to his Capital One commercials. “He’s the car black guy— Morgan Freeman is the other credit card black guy. You only hear his voice though, so you probably won’t confuse him with Laurence Fishburne.”
Jackson then drove his point home, saying, “I’ve actually never done a McDonald’s or Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial. I know that’s surprising.”

Burnett’s take was that Jackson handled the situation “beautifully”, but she probably gets mistaken for Emily Deschanel a lot, because: “Two white women with blue eyes, there you go.”

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