‘Selma’ actor talked to sons about Trump’s ‘reprehensible’ language

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David Oyelowo, the British-Nigerian actor who portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2014 movie “Selma,” says he had to explain to his three sons why the rhetoric President Trump used on the campaign trail last year is not appropriate.

“After Donald Trump won the election, I found myself having to have a conversation with my three sons, which is very unexpected,” Oyelowo told Larry King Live on ORA TV’s online streaming site. “I tried to bring up my sons to respect women, to be respectful generally, but I had to have a conversation with them about what is permissible – what should be permissible in society and in light of certain things he was on record having said about women.”

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