Usually it’s inmates running the asylum.
Anyhow, go and walk out.
I love it.
That might be what makes it hard to get past unfortunately. Of he’s going to hide behind, “it’s a figure of speech”, it might’ve been nice to have gotten it right! But he didn’t and the difference is a lot more of a racial tripwire. At least he didn’t say, “we can’t have the slaves running the plantation!”