Okay, so today is also not a poetry day, but that's because I want to mention this man:
"I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it's repulsive. But it was the first time I had a chance to blow stuff up and take a family hostage. As an actor, why shouldn't I have that opportunity? Because I'm brown and I should be scared about the connection between media images and people's thought processes?" (in New York Magazine, commenting about his recurring role as a terrorist on TV's "24")
There are a ton of reasons why I admire Kal Penn: his acting skills (see: Kumar, Gogol of
The Namesake, Kutner of House...), his sense of humor, his approachability, the way he presents himself to the world. He isn't afraid of expressing his opinion or speaking out against prejudice (see the above quote), and he
stumped for Obama during the presidential campaign alongside many other celebrities and speakers.
Now, Kal Penn is
leaving House to
work for Obama at the White House [warning: House spoilers!], and I find myself speechlessly, hopelessly proud:
"I've been thinking about [moving into politics] for a while. It's probably because of the value system my grandparents instilled in me. They marched with Gandhi in the Indian independence movement, and that was always in the back of my head. So the past couple of years I thought about it a little more ... and I thought this might be the right time to go off and do something else."
Rock on, brother. Rock on. \o/
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