J.R. Whittington

The Bible was never white—but whiteness wrapped itself around scripture like kudzu on stone and used it to make me ashamed of the body God gave me.

I'm the only theater actor in New York City who hasn't booked Law & Order, and after 50 years of preparing meals for a table I'm never invited to sit at, I'm finally saying it out loud.

My white ancestors enslaved me and made me the man I am today—that's the twisted truth I'm sitting with on my 50th birthday.