Jesse Williams\u00a0is not only quite the entertainer, but he\u2019s quite the social activist \u2014 having protested in Ferguson and being outspoken about race and racism in America.<\/p>\n
This time around he took to Twitter to announce his frustration with\u00a0Trayvon Martin\u00a0costumes and the lack thereof sensitivity towards the black human experience.<\/p>\n
He asked some tough questions about the corrupt justice system as well as questions about white supremacy and cultural appropriation.<\/p>\n
He expressed how he felt about the shooting of black teen\u00a0Mike Brown\u00a0\u2014 condemning the white officer\u00a0Darren Wilson\u00a0for murdering the teenager.<\/p>\n
Last week, the autopsy was released and corresponded with Wilson\u2019s story about what happened in the police car and that there was a fight between the officer and teen. But Williams said it didn\u2019t justify taking the kid\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
Williams expressed his concerns about these injustices on\u00a0his Twitter account with a series of tweets, which can be read below:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy do so many of you reflexively defend, identify w\/, and antagonize on behalf of whiteness whenever blackness is involved?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t feel compelled to justify every thing done by everyone who happens to be straight or male or right-handed. So why whiteness?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about black pain is so fun to you? From where is that joy derived?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen\u00a0Halloween\u00a0comes around, how exactly does dressing as Trayvon and other illustrations of black pain, make you feel? Please be specific.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t reflexively celebrate random or routine white death, make memes of your bleeding corpses, etc. Tell us about this unique obsession.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMillions of you smile in awe of our music, comedy, inventions, athletics, fashion, etc. but when we\u2019re not entertaining you, you hate us?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow is the fact that police are killing 400 people a year not worthy of investigation and remedy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom 2006-2012 a white police officer killed a black PERSON at least twice a week in this country. By saying so, I have not attacked you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBy asking that laws protect citizens from publicly sanctioned carnage, you still, have not been attacked. You choose what role you take on.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow is it possible that for so many, their first & only concern is whiteness and the power to keep killing with impunity?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no American epidemic of white people being killed, by anyone. Why would there need to be?\u00a0#KeepGraspingForFalseEquivalenciesThough\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWearing an Irish or Italian Pride tee shirt would never offend you. But Black folks expressing general esteem or citizenship does? Why?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBlackness has never been a threat to whiteness. Whiteness has always actively threatened blackness. This is not a matter of opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhite people have played a crucial role in nearly every social justice movement in this country. Indifference is not your duty or heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need not carry the heavy, hollow burden of racism any longer. Leave it behind. Be for something, and not because it\u2019s easy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe brief service interruption has subsided. Please remember the target and the context.\u00a0#Actions<\/a>\u00a0#Reactions<\/a>\u00a0Good day.\u201d<\/p>\n Williams\u2019 social media presence has given folks more details about the current state of Ferguson and what\u2019s currently going on with protests and racially-charged case of Brown\u2019s shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jesse Williams\u00a0is not only quite the entertainer, but he\u2019s quite the social activist \u2014 having…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,16,14,13,7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-protest","category-equal-opportunity","category-featured","category-first-amendment-rights","category-music","category-racism","category-social-change","wpcat-4-id","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-14-id","wpcat-13-id","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-17-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}