She had Cherokee, Choctaw Indian and African-American roots, but James Earl Jones says in an interview with BBC News that his grandmother was the "most racist person" he has ever known.
"She trained us that way," Jones said. "She would consider it defensive racism, but it's still racism, it's still the same poison."
The "poison" had a positive side, though: He credits his grandmother with giving him his "first need for independent thinking" and allowing him to empathize with racists:
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