We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.

For all of the diversity in 'Scandal,' no one else would be sitting in a room wearing a T-shirt and chains and call a Southern white Republican president a 'boy.' And it's those kinds of things that Rowan has the freedom to say that nobody else could say within the confines of the show.

My father was in the military; he was a captain. His service was to quote-unquote integrate the Armed Forces overseas.

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