Denzel Washington tells his four kids the world is perfect, but don’t become a hater.

"I try to teach my children there are going to be obstacles," Washington, 53, said on Monday’s Early Show, about his remembrances of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. "Someone may not like you just because they don’t like themselves. But, don’t you get bogged down."

He says, "Don’t be a hater. Don’t let hatred destroy you. Overcome it, move on, educate them, if you will." Washington has four children with wife Pauletta: John David, 23, Katia, 20, and Olivia and Malcolm, both 16.

Washington, who played civil-rights icon Malcolm X in the 1992 movie, says that when he was growing up, his family talked about King, Jr. and the 1960s civil rights movement.

"My father was a minister in the Church of God and Christ," said Washington is stars in the current movie, The Great Debaters. "There was talk of this other guy, Malcolm X, that was not allowed to somehow be talked about. And of course, there was Martin Luther King."

This is just another reason to respect Denzel for who he is, and what he stands for. Another positive role mode. I love it.

American Gangster, starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, took in $46.3 million this weekend to take the top spot over Jerry Seinfeld’s Bee Movie which took in $39.1 million. Don’t bring a stinger to a gun fight. American Gangster was good, I saw it on Friday.

Last night I went to see American Gangster, and it was good. The movie is about a heroin kingpin named Frank Lucas, nick named Superfly, played by Denzel Washington, who is brought down by a truly honest cop New Jersey detective Richie Roberts played by Russell Crowe. Denzel deserves an Oscar. Towards the end of the movie some blacks walked out angrily saying Lucas was scum because he snitched on other criminals. I was surprised to see this behavior, but having seen so many interviews where blacks discourage telling the police who committed a crime, because they consider it a betrayal to other blacks, helped me understand where the negative sentiment came from. Lucas was however, without a doubt, a very important person in the history of the United States. He had a black market heroin empire that rivaled even the Mafia. I wanted to learn more about him, and I found an interesting article about him and his life written back in 2000. If you’d like to learn more too click here to read the article.

Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington sat down with this week’s Entertainment Weekly (Now Weekly!) for a revealing interview about working together on their new crime drama American Gangster. Russell also talks about Leonardo DiCaprio’s virginity:

“You know, I worked with Leonardo when he was 18 [on the Western The Quick and the Dead]. He was a virgin, and he would talk about that constantly. So I’m hoping we have some time so he can fill in what’s happened in between. Maybe show some photos. Because I’m sure life’s different now.”

Leonardo can now brag about banging hot chicks like Bar Refaeli below. I wasn’t as lucky as Leonardo. I lost my virginity long before eighteen. Apparently girls like quiet, shy, smart, muscular boys like me.

Over the weekend felon and rapper T.I. was arrested for buying illegal guns, and buying guns illegally since he is a felon and can’t legally have guns. Today the A.T.F. released the photo above of some of the guns they confiscated in the raid. Those don’t look like guns you’d use for hunting. I’ve seen movies that use them, but the bad guys who had those guns were terrorists. There was also that movie called Scarface with Al Pacino where he got all coked up, and when the cops came busting in he was standing there with his machine gun all crazy with coke eyes yelling, "Say hello to my little friend." I heard T.I. was just about to start filming a movie with Denzel Washington, who just finished American Gangster. T.I. could have gone down in history as a bada$$ if he had done a Scarface on those A.T.F. guys when they came busting in. No guts no glory.