“Now, what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to deescalate, disarm and not kill white people everyday. So what’s going to happen is we are going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours.”
** According to the Washington Post, Black men represented nearly 40 percent of those who were killed while unarmed in 2015. Meanwhile, Black men only represent 6 percent of the population.
“And let’s get a couple things straight, just a little sidenote – the burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander. That’s not our job, alright – stop with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interest, if you have no interest in equal rights for Black people then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.”
Read the entire speech here at genius.com and watch below.
Jesse Williams Gets It: The State of Black Freedom [VIDEO] was originally published on blackdoctor.org
