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This "Supergirl" Star Doesn't Have Time For Your Racism

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BuzzFeed - "If you have a problem with someone's race or sex or sexual preference or anything else that differentiates them from you, that's your problem," Mehcad Brooks, who plays the new Jimmy Olsen, told BuzzFeed News. CBS CBS's upcoming fall series Supergirl marks Calista Flockhart's return to television and the first time in a long time that we've seen a female superhero starring on a television show, but it was the casting of black actor Mehcad Brooks as the traditionally white character Jimmy Olsen that generated the most buzz on Twitter. "If you have a problem with someone's race or sex or sexual preference or anything else that differentiates them from you, that's your problem," the actor told BuzzFeed News after the Supergirl panel at Monday's Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills. "That mentality is either going to get fixed in your lifetime or you'll have to die wi

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