In an interview with People, Samuel L. Jackson and LaTanya Richardson Jackson said that at the beginning of their relationship they made a pact to be revolutionaries together — that’s the mantra they agreed upon. “In the beginning, we always said the most revolutionary thing that Black people could do was stay together, raise their children with the nucleus of having a father and a mother, since everybody likes to pretend that that’s not the dynamic of the African American family. That it’s just children out here being raised by women, which we know is false,” LaTanya said. “In order to change that narrative, we made a decision to say, ‘We are going to stay together no matter what. We’ll figure it out.'”
After 41 years, it looks like the Jacksons may have been on to something. Even though we’re sure that they, like anybody else, have their differences in private, they always present a united front in public. Just a few days prior, for instance, they wrote a joint letter asking the judge in Jussie Smollett’s case to be lenient in sentencing, according to Entertainment Tonight. Smollett was ultimately sentenced to 150 days in jail, but was released after serving six days.
