When Timberlake declared in response to Williams’s barnstorming expose of white privilege that ‘we are the same’,he revealed his lack of understandingOn Sunday night, the Grey’s Anatomy actor and social justice activist Jesse Williams was honored with a humanitarian award at the BET awards. His acceptance speech, and in which he addressed centuries of systemic racism,cultural appropriation and exploitation, was clear, or critical and powerful. It excoriated the construction called whiteness,which has engaged in “ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of weird fruit”.#jessewilliams
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