‘Sinners’ Star Jayme Lawson Blasts BAFTA, BBC’s Handling of Slur: ‘You Do Not Care for Our Dignity’ | Video

Nearly a week after the firestorm that erupted at and after the BAFTA Awards, “Sinners” star Jayme Lawson blasted both BAFTA and BBC over how the use of a racial slur made it to the broadcast of the awards ceremony.

“You do not care for our dignity, our humanity,” Lawson told THR at the NAACP Image Awards. “You want to celebrate our art, but you won’t protect.”

Lawson is of course referring to an incident involving Tourette’s activist John Davidson, who shouted the N-word at “Sinners” stars Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo as a vocal tic due to the disorder while the two presented onstage. On the…