{"id":22564,"date":"2016-12-30T19:13:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T03:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22564"},"modified":"2016-12-30T19:13:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T03:13:39","slug":"quote-jesse-williams-on-critics-of-black-lives-matter-plus-the-petition-to-get-him-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22564","title":{"rendered":"Quote: Jesse Williams on Critics of Black Lives Matter (plus the petition to get him fired)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AP_Jesse_Williams_ml_160627_12x5_1600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AP_Jesse_Williams_ml_160627_12x5_1600-590x247.jpg\" alt=\"ap_jesse_williams_ml_160627_12x5_1600\" width=\"590\" height=\"247\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AP_Jesse_Williams_ml_160627_12x5_1600-590x247.jpg 590w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AP_Jesse_Williams_ml_160627_12x5_1600-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AP_Jesse_Williams_ml_160627_12x5_1600-768x321.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AP_Jesse_Williams_ml_160627_12x5_1600-940x393.jpg 940w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AP_Jesse_Williams_ml_160627_12x5_1600.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From actor Jesse Williams&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/genius.com\/Jesse-williams-2016-bet-humanitarian-award-speech-annotated\">award acceptance speech<\/a> at the BET Awards, June 2016. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And let\u2019s get a couple things straight, just a little sidenote \u2013 the burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander.That\u2019s not our job, alright \u2013 stop with all that. 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, if you have no interest in equal rights for black people then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Incidentally, in response to this speech, someone started a petition to have Jesse Williams fired from his job acting on Gray&#8217;s Anatomy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/boycott-abc-network-and-sign-petition-to-fire-jesse-williams-from-grey-s-anatomy-for-racist-rant\">Over 27,000 people have signed it so far<\/a>. Tell me again how anti-SJWs are soooooo in favor of free speech?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From actor Jesse Williams&#8217; award acceptance speech at the BET Awards, June 2016. And let\u2019s get a couple things straight, just a little sidenote \u2013 the burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander.That\u2019s not our job, alright &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22564\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,91,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-racism","category-free-speech-censorship-copyright-law-etc","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22566,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22564\/revisions\/22566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}