by Kristen MartinBuzzFeedBuzzFeed Staff Y'all know why I'm here! We all saw *that interview*, right? Ugh, it still makes me cringe hearing someone refer to Delroy Lindo as an emerging artist, but I'm gonna take a deep breath and pull out some receipts for those who may be uninformed! Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF CBS / Via giphy.com Across genres and decades, Lindo has made a career out of playing men shaped by systems, responsibility, and hard choices, and giving them a dignity that refuses to be flattened into a trope.