*Orlando Jones dropped a bombshell recently when he revealed that his character Mr. Nancy won’t be returning for Season 3 of “American Gods” after he was fired over concerns about the message his character is sending to Black America.
Jones is speaking up once again, calling showrunner Charles Eglee a “culture vulture white guy.”
“Culture vulture white guy is running around with a Black Panther t-shirt on talking like you black, acting like you black, thinking you blacker than black people,” Jones explained to SiriusXM host Clay Cane of The Clay and Cane Show, Complex reports. “You’re playing that whole game, which is the only reason you would run your ass around and say something is crazy as Mr. Nancy’s bad for black America and clearly there’s nobody around to correct you.”
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Thank you #AmericanGods fans.
I know ya’ll have LOTS of questions about the firing. As always I promise to tell you the truth and nothing but. ❤️ Always, Mr. Nancy?? pic.twitter.com/sDouoQlUMd— Orlando Jones (@TheOrlandoJones) December 14, 2019
Jones added, “There’s nobody of color around you who feels they have the guts to say, ‘Hey sir, you probably shouldn’t say that you write from a black male perspective. You’re like a 60 plus-year-old white man. Are you serious right now?”
Continuing, “if you ask anybody about who the season three showrunner is, the two things that they will tell you is that he is a white man and he thinks he’s black.”
“He wears Stay Woke hats and Black Panther t-shirts and sunglasses. Dresses like old school Run DMC type of deal. Look at the pictures. He’s white, but it’s one of those white guys who talks like a black guy,” he said. “I don’t have any problems with somebody who’s a fan of the culture, but that doesn’t make you black.”
Jones also called Eglee a “wigga.”
“So you hired a guy who I’m going to use a word, I don’t mean to offend anybody. If you are offended, get over it. I’ve been called everything in the book. I don’t give offense, you take offense,” he said. “That’s how this works. So I’m going to throw “wigger” in the air, alright? You claim it as your own. I wasn’t talking to you “wigga” I was just talking. So you got this guy who that’s his behavior, that’s how he presents himself and you guys chose to hand this into this person’s hands because you thought that was a good idea.”
This scene is Orlando Jones, as Mr. Nancy (Anansi ), in the hull of a vessel designed to enslave and dehumanize Africans. He’s telling them to rise up against their oppressors, even if it guarantees them death. Urging them to die with honor and dignity.
pic.twitter.com/jqkAiFkmA3— L E F T, PhD ⚫️ (@LeftSentThis) December 15, 2019
Regarding Eglee’s questionable creative decisions, Jones said: “When he said to you that he wanted to get rid of the Muslim gay character guy, and the angry black God guy, and the new whatever Asian, you need to get rid of her and I don’t care about that Sam black girl character,” he explained. “I don’t care about it. Whatever. Here’s what I want to do. I want to do a doff metal and I’m going to get like Marilyn Manson, who’s really death metal, do like a God like that, and that’s what he did, and that’s no disrespect to Marilyn Manson. That’s what he did.”
When asked by Cane if he intends to take legal action, Jones said, “You’ll hear soon enough, it won’t be long, but at the end of the day, I always try and be mindful and thoughtful and encourage others to be thoughtful in those decisions. So, I’m not going to spit it out here like it’s not an important thing to consider when people make these types of moves.”
You can listen Jones’ comments via the player below.
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