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http://www.bet.com/video/betawards/2016/acceptance-speeches/jesse-williams-receives-humanitarian-award.html
"The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystanders...if you have a critique for the resistance, for 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, then do not make suggestions for those who do. Sit down."
I won't risk being admonished by directing this at anyone in particular, but Mr. Williams makes the case in under 5 minutes that if you think black people are somehow possessed of a level of privilege and social acceptance that makes the centuries of oppression irrelevant, you're wrong.
"The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystanders...if you have a critique for the resistance, for 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, then do not make suggestions for those who do. Sit down."
I won't risk being admonished by directing this at anyone in particular, but Mr. Williams makes the case in under 5 minutes that if you think black people are somehow possessed of a level of privilege and social acceptance that makes the centuries of oppression irrelevant, you're wrong.