Lee Daniels, the director of "Lee Daniels' the Butler," told Piers Morgan on Monday night that he thinks America has become more racist since Barack Obama — that nation's first black president — has come into office.
"I think that people are angry that he's president," Daniels said. "And I think that they are showing their true colors."
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Morgan had asked the director whether the country has become "more or less racist" since Obama was elected in 2008. After referencing the death of Trayvon Martin, and subsequent acquittal of the teenager's killer, George Zimmerman, he concluded: "Sadly, I think so."