There's a new
Change.org petition hoping to get Jesse Williams fired from his role as Dr Jackson Avery in Grey’s Anatomy after he made that moving speech at the BET Awards last month.
In his five-minute speech, Williams called out racism within the United States as black folks are still oppressed across the country whether they’re being gunned down by police, denied equal opportunities or having their ideas stolen, repackaged and sold without credit.
Interestingly enough, the same people hollering #AllLivesMatter are usually the same folks advocating for freedom of speech, so they can continue voicing racist, hateful things at others. However, as the petition states, this isn't the case: “Jesse Williams spewed a racist, hate speech against law enforcement and white people at the BET awards. If this was a white person making the same speech about an African American, they would have been fired and globally chastised, as they should be, but there has been no consequences to Williams' actions,” Erin Smith writes in her petition.
She continued: “There's been no companies making a stand against his racist remarks and no swift action condemning his negative attitude.”
Smith also used hashtags like #AllLivesMatter and #EqualConsequences4RacistBehavior in her petition to ABC, which airs Grey’s Anatomy. The petition has received more than 1,500 signatures by press time.
Culled from Independent uk
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