In The Sellout I tried to capture how we can talk and see race, how we see urbanity, and how we see our history.

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

In The Sellout I tried to capture how we can talk and see race, how we see urbanity, and how we see our history.

It's weird because there is progress somehow. But there's so much that just feels the same. How important is that rank? How important is it that I am allowed to make these decisions? What does that really mean? What is progress? Is it progress that a black guy gets to push a button for the nuclear bomb? Is that progress? Maybe, I don't know.

The thing is that it's always a constant reminder of how violent this country has been, always has been, you know. I'm still frustrated with these conversations: [Barack] Obama is black so that means this, that things are better, or it means that you voted for him because he's black.

I'm not searching for the truth.That's too much pressure .

I just rode cross-country and the thing I noticed is just how afraid everyone is, and how nervous and scared and angry people are. From my point of view, I don't think it's all necessarily justified, but I think that's easy for me to say.