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No, Jesse Williams, I Will Not ‘Sit Down’
...then Williams launched into a political diatribe, praising the activists marching in the streets against “a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us.” What system? The one run by Barack Obama? Williams did not say.
Next, Williams declared, in an apparent non sequitur: “Now, this is also in particular for the black women in particular who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves. We can and will do better for you.”
All well and good, except that the woman who nurtured him in particular is white. That does not mean he owes a debt to all white people (how absurd), or cannot appreciate black women, but it does suggest he feels a need to prove his own racial authenticity.
He continued: “Now, what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to deescalate, disarm and not kill white people everyday.”
Really? Which data? Not the data available to most other people, which suggest, as one writer noted, that “fatal police shootings make up a much larger proportion of white and Hispanic homicide deaths than black homicide deaths.” The reason?: “[T]he lamentable black-on-black homicide rate,” about which Williams said nothing.
But don’t you dare call Williams out for his hypocrisy, or suggest that he focus on changes in our culture that might actually make a positive impact on black lives....In other words: you cannot criticize the “resistance” if you are not loyal to it. And you are presumed to be a racist if you dissent. Not only that, but you ought to have no free speech rights whatsoever.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/06/27/jesse-williams-bet-will-not-sit/
...then Williams launched into a political diatribe, praising the activists marching in the streets against “a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us.” What system? The one run by Barack Obama? Williams did not say.
Next, Williams declared, in an apparent non sequitur: “Now, this is also in particular for the black women in particular who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves. We can and will do better for you.”
All well and good, except that the woman who nurtured him in particular is white. That does not mean he owes a debt to all white people (how absurd), or cannot appreciate black women, but it does suggest he feels a need to prove his own racial authenticity.
He continued: “Now, what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to deescalate, disarm and not kill white people everyday.”
Really? Which data? Not the data available to most other people, which suggest, as one writer noted, that “fatal police shootings make up a much larger proportion of white and Hispanic homicide deaths than black homicide deaths.” The reason?: “[T]he lamentable black-on-black homicide rate,” about which Williams said nothing.
But don’t you dare call Williams out for his hypocrisy, or suggest that he focus on changes in our culture that might actually make a positive impact on black lives....In other words: you cannot criticize the “resistance” if you are not loyal to it. And you are presumed to be a racist if you dissent. Not only that, but you ought to have no free speech rights whatsoever.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/06/27/jesse-williams-bet-will-not-sit/
