Robert De Niro acknowledged that raising his six biracial children has a different impact on him as a white father.“My children are all half black and I don’t have … even me, I take certain things for granted,” the Irishman star, 76, said in an interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday, June 10. “When people say that they tell their kids, ‘Keep your hands [up] when you’re stopped by any cops, keep your hands on the steering wheel, don’t make a sudden move, don’t put your hands below, don’t do this,’ you understand that.
That’s scary. That has to change.”De Niro also weighed in on the widespread protests against police brutality and racial inequality taking place throughout the U.S.
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