Jenny Slate on her Big Mouth exit: "I looked around my life and I could see very clearly where my reasoning was flawed and racist"

ET Canada

In an interview with Buzzfeed's News O'Clock podcast, Slate expanded on leaving behind her Black Big Mouth character Missy last month. “I looked around my life and I could see very clearly where my reasoning was flawed and racist, which is, I think, a scary word for white people to say because they couldn’t feel like it means ‘Oh, I’m a bad person,’ you know, or ‘I’m the same as the person that drove the car through protesters," she said, according to ET Canada. Slate added: '”I think I, as a white person, was looking around the world in the last couple of months and thinking, Well, there is something that I genuinely don’t understand and I should understand it. And there can be shame and other feelings that come into that. But those are, at least for me, the impetus to make the change.”