‘Grey’s Anatomy’s’ Jesse Williams Sounds Off On Racist Halloween Costumes
We’ve already reported our fair share of racist Halloween costumes, and now Grey’s Anatomy‘s Jesse Williams is sounding off about it too. In the past Williams has been extremely vocal about the violence surrounding the black community, as well as the unjust discrimination victims of police brutality have faced.
This time around Williams focused on the Halloween costumes, which is enraging people. Instead of making an appearance on a talk show, the Grey’s Anatomy star went right to the source by tweeting his feelings out on Twitter. As always, Williams was eloquent and didn’t mince his words while expressing his disgust over people getting a kick out of black pain.
He started it off by posing a very serious question to his 785,000 followers. “What about black pain is so fun to you? From where is that joy derived?”
Jesse didn’t focus on Ray and Janay Rice costumes, but instead went after the people dressed as Trayvon Martin, the teen who was killed by George Zimmerman in Florida.
When #Halloween comes around, how exactly does dressing as Trayvon and other illustrations of black pain, make you feel? Please be specific.
— jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) October 28, 2014
We don’t reflexively celebrate random or routine white death, make memes of your bleeding corpses, etc. Tell us about this unique obsession.
— jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) October 28, 2014
Millions of you smile in awe of our music, comedy, inventions, athletics, fashion, etc. but when we’re not entertaining you, you hate us?
— jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) October 28, 2014
How does that work exactly?
— jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) October 28, 2014
White people have played a crucial role in nearly every social justice movement in this country. Indifference is not your duty or heritage.
— jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) October 28, 2014
You need not carry the heavy, hollow burden of racism any longer. Leave it behind. Be for something, and not because it’s easy. — jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) October 28, 2014
Earlier in October, Jesse Williams also attended to Ferguson, Missouri to join protesters for #FergusonOctober. The rally was an effort to seek justice for 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was killed.
As the Inquisitr reported, Williams also appeared on CNN to speak out against the shooting in Ferguson. At the time, he stirred up controversy by saying black people are not “thugs worthy of death.”
“You’ll find that the people doing the oppressing always want to start the narrative at a convenient part, or always want to start the story in the middle. This started with a kid getting shot and killed and left in the street for four hours. I’ve never seen a white body left in the street for four hours in the sweltering heat.”
He continued, and turned his argument on the media and their neglect in telling the correct narrative.
“We need journalism to kick in and start telling the story from the beginning, this is about finding justice for a kid that was shot, an 18-year-old that was shot, period.”
Williams also pointed the lack of minorities on TV and film, singling out Darren Aronofsky’s Noah as one of them. Williams told the Wrap, “We don’t need every movie and every TV show to have six white leads.”
“Instead of making all white ‘Noah,’ when it would be physically impossible for all those people to be white, or ‘Exodus,’ when we know for a fact that the Egyptians were not white, Rhamses[sic] and Moses are all white, while the slaves and the servants and the thieves are black. That’s racism.”
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