I've met Jesse Williams before and I can definitely vouch for this man that he does have a love for our people. It wasn't Jesse's fault that he has a white mother and it definitely isn't Jesse's fault that this society and our community puts mixed and bi-racial people on a pedestal. He made an inspiring speech last night to a national audience that most celebs in that room would never make.
BUT, that doesn't take away from the fact that he hasn't said anything we haven't heard before. People greater than Jesse have been saying the same thing for over a hundred years and the same problems are still here. Hell, people on this forum have been spitting the same shyt and it goes largely ignored and called "militant". That's why I can't really fukk with y'all on this because alot of you are looking like hypocrites.
You'll praise Jesse for this and call people on this forum militant and everything else for starting threads with the exact same message. Yall are nothing but a bunch of uninformed hype beasts who lack historical perspective which is why you're so easily impressed with this speech.
Most of those celebrities could give two fukks about Jesse's speech and they could give even less fukks about everyday black folk like you and I. This speech does nothing but make people feel good. After the hashtags are done being made and there are no more retweets and followers to be gained, our plight in this country and world is still going to be here. And I doubt this speech will "inspire" anyone in this thread to do anything besides doing the shyt they been doing.
@cornercommission2k12 Brotha, Malcolm X wasn't bi-racial, his mother was. And his father was a full black man who was a Garveyite to his core. You should know this already.