Jesse Williams BET Speech PDF
Jesse Williams BET Speech PDF
Jesse Williams BET Speech PDF
comfort the bystander. That's not our job, stop with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance,
our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have
no interest in equal rights for black people than do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.
Weve been floating this country on credit for centuries, and were done watching and waiting while
this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind,
while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil, black gold. Ghettoising and
demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like
costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is, just because were
magic, doesnt mean were not real.