Actor Jesse Williams’ BET Awards Blame-Whitey Rant

Who's really dividing and impoverishing American blacks?

 

Crystal Wright  81 

What would black celebrities like Jesse Williams and Al Sharpton do without their grievances against white people?  Well, they’d actually have to start telling blacks to take personal responsibility for their lives instead of blaming “the system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us.”  My first reaction to the rich, black actor Jesse Williams’ acceptance speech for his Humanitarian Award at the BET Awards was a massive eye-roll. Sadly, Williams decided to riff on the same, old, hackneyed “black LIES” that racist cops are killing blacks en masse.

Ticking off the tragic deaths of Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland and Eric Garner, Williams declared that it isn’t “better to live in 2012 than it is to live in 1612 or 1712” because today’s racist police officers are akin to slave masters indiscriminately killing blacks. Williams continued in his screed against White America, declaring that blacks aren’t really “free.”

The last time I looked, blacks aren’t owned by whites and walking around in chains, unless you count the Democrat Party owning the black vote for the last half century and delivering nothing but misery to blacks in return. .........When will blacks take responsibility for their own destinies and stop asking whites to give it to them?.....To Read More.....