Lenny Kravitz talks in detail about being black and Jewish in the new episode of “Masters of the Game”.

In the latest episode of Masters of the Game, Lenny Kravitz talks deeply about being black and Jewish and how one can learn to simply accept each side of yourself. He really opens up about what it’s like. His message to Black and Jewish people – or any intersectionality – is that you must accept and respect all parts of yourself and your history.

Kravitz talks about the profound influence of his black mother, famous actress Roxie Roker, who played Helen Willis on “The Jeffersons,” one of the hottest sitcoms in America in the late Seventies. Helen Willis was the first black recurring television character to have a white spouse. Seeing her and her white husband on television was a robust symbol that helped normalize interracial relationships at a time when it was still stigmatized.

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Kravitz also talks about the profound influence of his Jewish father and Jewish grandparents, who showed him a special side of life. It took him some time to feel comfortable with each side of himself – he was teased at college for being biracial. But, he said, it is not about fitting in with one or the other. It’s about immersing yourself in all sides of yourself and being proud of all that you just are. There are lessons to be learned from all parts of your heritage, and all of those lessons will make you who you’re.

Kravitz needed to love each side of himself to develop into the globally popular Lenny Kravitz that the world loved.