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Clearly she wasn't ready for what Boots had to say. Bravo, Fox, for ignoring the real talk. I bet her producer was yelling in her ear to not respond to him. After this happened, the Fox 8 morning show's producer sent out the following via e-mail: "Fox 8 was not the time or opportunity for Boots to go on his political rant. With his statements he not only hurt our station's credibility but also the festival's. I was looking to do a fun interview and it turned into something entirely different. We will not be reaching out for any interviews in the future."

NOTE: If you are a journalist and using this video in your article, it would be nice if you gave me some credit for uploading it. It took some work to obtain the footage (we sifted through ~40 hours of Fox8's live feed), convert it, edit it, and get it up. The Lakewood Citizen was the first to do a story on this, but they -did not- upload the material. Almost all of the articles on the subject seem to state that Lakewood Citizen uploaded the video. I'm not asking for money, folks. Just credit.

This video being posted on social media is how I first learned about Boots Riley. I love when shit like this gets on TV

... When I mentioned the avalanche of bonkerses used to describe “Sorry to Bother You” at Sundance, Riley replied: “It’s better than people going in thinking that it’s a ‘message’ movie, because no one wants to see that — I don’t want to see that! And because the truth is, every movie is a message movie. It’s just that most movies have messages that are in lock step with the status quo.” ...

... In the past, Riley has criticized Hollywood as abidingly reactionary in the stories it tells about black people: “All these movies — whether it’s ‘Menace II Society’ or ‘Boyz N the Hood’ — the moral is ‘Move some place else and everything’s better,’ ” he has said. “And the message is always ‘We’re destroying ourselves,’ and there’s no mention of anything systematic.” At one point, drinking coffee on stools in an uptown cafe, I brought up “Black Panther.” Riley told me that he admires Ryan Coogler and considers him “a mentor,” but his praise for that film came with an asterisk: “It was great — for a superhero movie. One of the best I’ve seen. But I have a problem with superheroes in general, because, politically, superheroes are cops. Superheroes work with the government to uphold the law. And who do the laws work for?” Riley answered this question with a smirk. “Put it like this: We all love bank robbers, because we know that in the two sides of that equation, the robbers are the ones to root for, not the banks. Only in superhero movies and the news do they try to make us think we’re against the bank robbers!” ...