AFTER JESSE WILLIAMS HAD A VERY INSPIRATIONAL AND
COURAGEOUS SPEECH DURING THE BET AWARDS, TALKING ABOUT THE ISSUES
THAT THE BLACK COMMUNITY FACES IN THE UNITED STATES, OF COURSE
THERE WERE SOME INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE UPSET ABOUT IT.
AS A RESULT, THERE WAS A PETITION ON CHANGE.ORG TO
GET HIM FIRED FROM HIS ROLE ON GRAY'S ANATOMY.
LITTLE DO THE PEOPLE WHO SIGNED THAT PETITION KNOW THAT THE
PERSON BEHIND GRAY'S ANATOMY IS SHAUNA RIMES, AND SHE
ACTUALLY HAD NO PROBLEM WITH HIS SPEECH.
BEFORE WE GET TO THE DETAILS OR THE UPDATES, IF YOU AND
CATCH HIS SPEECH HERE'S A LITTLE SNIPPET OF IT.
YESTERDAY WOULD HAVE BEEN YOUNG TAMIR RICE'S 14TH
BIRTHDAY, SO I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANYMORE ABOUT HOW FAR WE'VE
COME WHEN PAID PUBLIC SERVICES CAN ñ PAID PUBLIC SERVICE
COMPONENT DRIVE-BY ON A 12-YEAR-OLD IN A PUBLIC PARK AND
THEN GO HOME AND MAKE A SANDWICH.
TELL ERIC GARNER THAT IT'S BETTER TO LIVE IN 2016."
PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS AN ATTACK ON WHITE PEOPLE AND
ON COPS, BUT ALL HE WAS DOING WAS RAISING AWARENESS ON
THE NUMBER OF BLACK INDIVIDUALS OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS
WHO ARE SHOT AND KILLED BY COPS WHEN THEY WERE UNARMED.
TAMIR RICE WAS ONLY 12
YEARS OLD, PLAYING WITH A TOY GUN IN A PARK AND HE WAS
SHOT WITHIN TWO SECONDS OF THE POLICE ARRIVING TO THE SCENE.
PEOPLE WERE SO UP IN ARMS ABOUT IT THAT THEY SIGNED THIS
PETITION.
ACCORDING TO INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES, "A PETITION TO
ABC ON CHANGE.ORG, WHICH NOW HAS 8000 SIGNATURES, ARGUES THAT
WILLIAMS'S SPEECH CONSTITUTES RACISM AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE AND
INSTIGATES HATRED."
LET'S START CALM.
ASKING PEOPLE TO NOT SHOOT YOU IS NOT RACISM.
SAYING, HEY THAT'S MY 12-YEAR-OLD
BOY, DON'T SHOOT HIM IN TWO SECONDS.
SANDRA BLAND DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG WHEN SHE WAS
ORIGINALLY ARRESTED.
WE DISSECTED THAT VIDEO.
EVERY LEGAL EXPERT SAYS SHE HAS EVERY RIGHT ñ BUT ñ
SHE HAD EVERY RIGHT TO DO WHAT SHE DID.
THEY SAY SHE HUNG HERSELF INSIDE THE PRISON, SHE'S DEAD
EITHER WAY.
ERIC GARNER SAID, I CAN'T BREATHE.
WHAT DO YOU WANT THEM TO DO?
YOU THINK IT'S RACIST TO COMPLAIN ABOUT A GUY
CHOKING ANOTHER GUY TO DEATH?
YOU CAN'T COMPLAIN ABOUT THAT?
I DON'T WANT TO BE RACIST, SO GO AHEAD AND MURDER ME ANYTIME
YOU LIKE.
YOU PEOPLE ARE DISGUSTING, YOU REALLY ARE.
IS IT A STATEMENT ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE?
OF COURSE NOT.
THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY IS WHITE, THEY DIDN'T ALL DO IT.
IT'S A STATEMENT ABOUT THE COPS THAT SPECIFICALLY SHOT OR
CHOKED THOSE PEOPLE, OR KILLED THEM IN OTHER WAYS.
IT'S A STATEMENT ABOUT THEM, AND A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY SAYING,
HEY, GUYS, HEAR OUR PLEA TO NOT MURDER OUR CHILDREN ANYMORE.
AND IF YOU THINK THAT IS AGAINST YOU ñ EVERYBODY WHO IS SIGNING
THIS PETITION IS RAISING HER HAND AND SAYING, I AM THE RACIST
YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, THAT'S WHY I TOOK PERSONAL OFFENSE.
I FEEL LIKE A SPEECH LIKE THAT WOULDN'T GET UNDER
YOUR SKIN UNLESS YOU HAD A GUILTY CONSCIENCE.
I SEE A SPEECH I GOT AND I RECOGNIZE THE INJUSTICES AND
IT'S SOMETHING I WANT A SOLUTION FOR.
IT DOESN'T MAKE ME FEEL LIKE I'M BEING ATTACKED PERSONALLY,
IT MAKES ME REALIZE, HERE'S AN ISSUE OF SOCIETY, WE NEED
TO FIND A SOLUTION.
AND FOR SOME REASON, PEOPLE ARE GETTING UP IN ARMS ABOUT IT.
BY THE WAY, JESSE WILLIAMS IS HALF WHITE, HIS MOM IS
SWEDISH AND HIS DAD IS BLACK, SO IT SOUNDS LITTLE STRANGE
CALLING HIM RACIST AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE.
LET ME READ YOU FROM THE CHANGE.ORG PETITION,
BECAUSE THIS IS THE REASON IT WENT UP AND I WANT TO SEE
WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IT CENKÖ JESSE WILLIAMS SPEWED
A RACIST, HATE SPEECH AGAINST LAW-ENFORCEMENT AND WHITE
PEOPLE AT THE BET AWARDS.
IF THIS IS A WHITE PERSON MAKING THE SAME SPEECH TOWARDS
AFRICAN-AMERICANS, THEY WOULD BE FIVE ñ
FIRED AND GLOBALLY CHASTISED, AS THEY SHOULD BE, BUT THERE
HAS BEEN NO CONSEQUENCES TO WILLIAMS ACTIONS.
THERE'S BEEN NO CUT ñ
COMPANIES MAKING A STAND AGAINST HIS RACIST REMARKS AND NO
SWIFT ACTION CONDEMNING HIS NEGATIVE ATTITUDE."
WHAT ARE YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT?
MY WHOLE LIFE I'M USED TO BEING IN CHARGE AND DOING
WHATEVER I WANT.
SHUT UP AND TAKE IT.
THE PERSON WHO WROTE THAT IS RACIST.
ALMOST EVERYONE ASSIGNED THAT PETITION IS RACIST.
YOU WANT TO CRY ABOUT THAT?
CRY ABOUT THAT.
I'LL GIVE YOU A SUPER RANDOM EXAMPLE.
LET'S SAY THERE'S A GUY WHO, WHILE ACCEPTING A
HUMANITARIAN AWARD, AS JESSE WILLIAMS WAS DOING, SAYS
I'M FROM TIBET AND I WOULD LIKE CHINA TO FREE ME, OKAY?
AND I THINK CHINA IS NOT GIVING US OUR FREEDOM AND WE WANT
DEMOCRACY, ETC.
IF YOU TURNED AROUND AND SAID, THAT GUY IS SO RACIST
AGAINST THE CHINESE.
PEOPLE WOULD BE LIKE, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
HE'S JUST SAYING, CAN I HAVE MY FREEDOM?
AND IF I PROTEST AGAINST THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT CAN THEY
NOT KILL ME?
LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING YOU RACIST!
BY THE WAY, SOME PEOPLE DO, THOSE WOULD BE THE PEOPLE IN
POWER IN CHINA, BECAUSE YOU ARE OPPRESSING THE PEOPLE INTO BED.
THAT'S A RANDOM EXAMPLE, BUT I PICKED IT BECAUSE I WANT
YOU TO DIVORCE YOURSELF FROM WHATEVER YOUR BIASES ARE.
SO WHATEVER YOU SAY LIKE, YOU'RE COMPLETING ABOUT COPS
MURDERING YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS, SO WHAT?
NO, YOU'RE THE RACIST WERE COMPLAINING ABOUT IT.
I MEAN HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THAT?
NOBODY LOOKS AT THAT STATEMENT AND GOES ñ THAT ISN'T, I CAN'T
BELIEVE HE CALLED ME RACIST ñ IF YOUR OBJECTIVE ABOUT IT YOU GO,
LOOK LET'S FIND AN ANSWER.
THAT SUCKS, IS NOT HORRIBLE THAT THE 12-YEAR-OLD WAS KILLED?
THAT THE GUY WAS CHOKED TO DEATH?
ERIC GARNER WAS ACTUALLY BEING A GOOD SAMARITAN AND BRING UP
A FIGHT IN THAT SCENARIO BUT THEY KILLED HIM ANYWAY.
ISN'T THAT UNFORTUNATE?
LET'S FIND AN ANSWER TO THAT?
SHONDA RHIMES RESPONDED TO THIS AND SAID THERE IS NO
NEED FOR A PETITION.
I'M GLAD SHE SPOKE OUT AND BASICALLY TOLD ANYONE ñ
EVERYONE TO PISS OFF.
THERE IS A TINY SILVER LINING TO THIS STORY.
THE SILVER LINING IS, ONLY ABOUT 8000 PEOPLE SIGNED THE PETITION.
THAT'S NOT THAT MANY.
I KNOW THERE ARE WAY MORE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO
BELIEVE IN WHAT THIS PETITION IS TRYING TO PEDDLE.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WHEN A PETITION DOES WELL IT GETS
TENS OF THOUSANDS, IF NOT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF
PEOPLE TO SIGN IT WITHIN A SHORT TIME.
ONLY 8000 PEOPLE SIGNED THIS PETITION, SO AGAIN IS A
SMALL BUT NOTABLE SILVER LINING.
LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, I MENTIONED OFFHAND ONE TIME THAT
IT WOULD BE GREAT IF BERNIE SANDERS APPEARED ON THE SHOW.
SUMMARY CREATED A PETITION IMMEDIATELY, AND 17,000
PEOPLE SIGNED.
THOSE ARE PEOPLE WHO LIKE BERNIE SANDERS.
THAT'S WHEN YOU CREATE A MOVEMENT.
1000 PEOPLE RAISING HER HAND AND COMPLAINING THAT THEY DON'T
GET TO KILL BLACK PEOPLE ANYMORE, AND THAT IT'S
RACIST TO COMPLAIN ABOUT IT.
PISS OFF, ALL THESE PEOPLE CRYING, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU
CALLED ME RACIST.
WELL IF YOU'RE NOT CRYING ABOUT ALL THE INNOCENT PEOPLE
THAT WERE SHOT TO DEATH, THEN WHY ARE YOU BOTHERED BY THAT?
YES I QUESTION YOUR MORALITY, AND I LOVE THAT JESSE WILLIAMS
DID THAT SPEECH AND I WISH THAT I WOULD GET AN OPPORTUNITY.
WAIT UNTIL YOU GET A LOAD OF ME, BECAUSE YOU WERE GOING TO
HAVE A RIVER OF TEARS ABOUT WHAT I SAID ABOUT YOU.
OH NO, GOLLY GEE, I DON'T GET TO LORD OVER BLACK PEOPLE ANYMORE.
BOO HOO ME.
YEAH BOO HOO YOU, FUCK OFF.