The Office’s Leslie David Baker reveals he’s been bombarded with racist abuse over new Stanley spin-off series
THE Office's Leslie David Baker has revealed he's been bombarded with racist abuse over his new Stanley spin-off series.
The 62-year-old actor played Stanley in the hit NBC series for nine seasons and earlier this year, revealed he was raising funds to film a pilot episode for a new spin-off series about his character.
While Leslie has been flooded with support from fans of The Office, he has revealed how he has also sadly been bombarded with racist abuse from online trolls.
Taking to Instagram, Leslie posted a series of hateful messages he had received on the social media platform, including the repeated use of the N-word.
Other messages featured horrific lynching photos, and Leslie said: "For those of you who don’t believe racism is still alive in the world… here’s the proof.
"Our goal has simply been to entertain and give the fans a quality series.
"These rants are evidence that there is still a great deal of work that needs to be done here in America regarding racism. Bigotry and hate will not be allowed to eradicate art or Black people. Enough said."
The messages sent to the actor are from an account that has since been deleted, but some of the hateful post read: "Your scam show will never happen. Now go be a good little n****rs and burn your neighbourhoods.
"You won’t get any of my White dollars. My hard earned White dollars that I worked for will never go to any n****rs trying to steal the white man’s ideas.
"I speak for white America we will not give you n****rs another penny."
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Thankfully Leslie was immediately bombarded with messages of support from fans, and his Kickstarter project to raise money for the pilot has already surpassed the $300,000 target.
Leslie previously revealed he had already had interest from a number of networks about the spin-off, but hopes it will end up on NBC, which was the original home of The Office.