Spike Lee and Eddie Murphy discuss Hollywood racism in classic 1990 Spin Interview

Eddie Murphy: āThis is how scared white people have black people. I was sitting in my office with Mike Tyson and Don Kingā my office, at Eddie Murphy Productions. The only two people that work there that are white are my managers that work for me. And we go on the subject of white people, and the government, and shit like that, and what happened is, we started whispering, āThe white manā¦.ā They got you so scared you whisper in your own houseā¦. āNow thatās a helluva thing. Me, Mike Tyson, and Don King, sitting in my own office whispering about the white man. I said, āYo, man, they have done such a thing on us that we whispering and he aint even here.ā And thatās just something thatās in you naturallyāwhat the fuck is up? And you donāt know when theyāre listening or when they gonna get you.ā