Weighing in on the ongoing movement against police brutality as a black mother, the 'Mrs. America' star stresses that 'it isn't the responsibility of the oppressed to tell the oppressor what to do.'

AceShowbiz - Racial injustice has struck too close to home for Niecy Nash. When sharing her thoughts on the Black Lives Matter movement prompted by the tragic death of George Floyd by a white officer, the Flo Kennedy of "Mrs. America" spoke of a recent incident with the police that happened to her son Dominic Nash.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the "Claws" star explained the reason why she is "a f**king wreck" amid the ongoing tension caused by police brutality. "My son got stopped leaving my house last Sunday," she spilled. "And they pulled a taser on him for a rolling stop. And then proceeded to question him and ask him, 'You have on a T-Mobile shirt. Do you work there? Because if you do, how did you afford this car? Because this is a 2020.' "

"They don't know if he was a manager. They don't know if he was an owner. They don't know if he had a rich mama," the 50-year-old actress continued to make a point. "But what they probably felt like was. 'How did this young black boy get a car that I don't even have?' And we fitting to make you suffer for it."

During the chat, the former "Reno 911!" actress noted that she used to advise her son to comply to police when dealing with them. The death of Floyd, however, threw her off balance. "While I receive phone calls where people are saying, 'What can white people do? What can non-black people do?' I'm trying to figure out what to tell my own son," she admitted.

"I used to say, if you just comply, get home, and if there was a wrong that happened, we'll right it later. But now we watched a murder on national TV when George Floyd was murdered. I don't know because he complied. He was in handcuffs. He was on the ground with his hands behind his back," she added. "So I don't even know. People are calling me, asking me to tell them something. And I'm trying to figure out what to tell mine."

Nash, nonetheless, is sure of one thing in the midst of this civil unrest. "It isn't the responsibility of the oppressed to tell the oppressor what to do and how to right the wrong," she stated. "So my suggestion is you need to ask non-black people what they can do. Are they fighting for equal pay? When they come on these sets, are they making people feel welcome? How are they moving in these scripts and when they look at how people are depicted?"

"Don't call one more black person and ask them nothing about nothing. You call the white people and ask them what they could do because black people, by definition, can't be racist because we're not the ones in power," the actress pointed out. "The people that are saying be peaceful, stay at peace? That was all Martin Luther King stood on and he was murdered anyway."

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