'Diarra From Detroit' - Spotlight on Bryan Terrell Clark, aka 'Mr. Tea'

This line defines Diarra From Detroit's Mr. Tea, Diarra Brickland's confidante and colleague in the Detroit public school system. Clark uttered it to show creator Diarra Kilpatrick at a dinner party, and it made its way into the script because it resonated with her. "Sometimes, as marginalized people, we get painted as one thing," she says to Clark in the Episode 1 after-show. Clark is a Baltimore native, the son of a drug dealer and a school teacher. If he looks familiar it's because he's no stranger to the screen...