An emotional Lee Daniels responds to the brutal attack against Empire star Jussie Smollett. The incident is now being investigated as a hate crime.
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00:00Hold your head up Jesse. I'm with you. I'll be there in a minute. It's just another f***ing day in America.
00:23It's taken me a minute to come to social media about this because Jesse you are my son.
00:30You didn't deserve, nor anybody deserves, to have a noose put around your neck.
00:36To have bleach thrown on you.
00:39To be called die f***er or whatever they said to you.
00:48You are better than that.
00:51We are better than that. America is better than that.
00:54It starts at home.
00:55It starts at home yo. We have to love each other regardless of what sexual orientation we are.
01:01Because it shows that we are united on a united front.
01:05And no racist f***er can come in and do the things that they did to you.
01:11Hold your head up Jesse. I'm with you. I'll be there in a minute. It's just another f***ing day in America.