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Forest whittaker stars as a butler who served american presidents over three decades. take a look. >> what was the name of the movie, honey? >> "in the heat of the night." >> with sidney portier. >> he just won the academy award. he's breaking down barriers for all of us. >> it's not about being white, it's about acting white. sidney portier is nothing but an uncle tom. look at you, all toughed up. covering your ear, saying whatever you want. >> what? >> get the hell out of my house! >> everybody just sit down. >> i'm sorry, mr. butler. i didn't mean to make fun of your hero. >> everything you...

By acting white. sydney poitier is nothing but a rich uncle tom. >> look at you. all puffed up, your hat on your head, coming here, saying whatever you want. you need to go. >> what? >> get the hell out of my house. get on out. >> now everybody just sit down. >> i'm sorry, mr. butler. i didn't mean to make fun of your hero. >> everything you are and everything you have is because of that butler. >> why was that dynamic so important to you? >> because everything he was because of that butler. you know? i often wonder. i showed my son the movie. and he liked it. i was surprised. he gave me props...

Pennsylvania avenue, they're very learned men. they all knew about the emmet till murder, medgar evers. these events happened on their watch. they had to know this was having a deep personal effect upon mr. allen especially in the years that he was serving at the white house before the big civil rights bills. >> let's take a look at another clip from the movie depicting a huge generational divide between forrest whittaker who plays eugene allen, his inspired character, and his son. >> what was the name of that movie, honey? >> "in the heat of the night." >> "in the heat of the night" with sidn...

He is breaking down barriers for all of us. >> by being white. by acting white. sidney poitier is nothing but a -- look at you. all puffed up. your hat on your head, coming here saying whatever you want. you need to go. >> what? >> get the hell out of my house. get on out. >> now everybody just sit down. >> i'm sorry, mr. butler, i didn't mean to make fun of your hero. >> everything you are and everything you have is because of that butler. >> you can see it's an all-star cast. ronald reagan, on that last subject of discretion, the folks who serve a first family, they really do know where all ...

What was the name of that movie? >> "in the heat of the night." >> "in the heat of the night" with sidney poitier? >> he's just acting white. sidney poitier is nothing but a rich uncle tom. >> look at you. all puffed up, coming here, saying whatever you want. up need to go. >> what? >> get the hell out of my house! >> i'm sorry, mr. butler, i didn't mean to make fun of your hero. >> everything you are and everything you have are from the