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🗓️ 8 May 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Grey's Anatomy star, Jesse Williams gets raw and real about race and injustice and how he has lost jobs because he's unwavering and unapologetic about his fight for equality. But he's optimistic. "We're in a fever dream...but it will break."
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0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. The activist, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students that are realizing that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do. |
0:22.0 | All right? and destroy us cannot stand if we do. |
0:23.0 | All right? |
0:25.0 | It's kind of basic mathematics. |
0:28.0 | The more we learn about who we are and how we got here, |
0:31.0 | the more we will mobilize. |
0:33.0 | Now this is also in particular for the black women in particular who have spent their |
0:36.9 | lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves. |
0:42.2 | We can and we'll do better for you. |
0:44.8 | Now, what we've been doing is looking at the data |
0:50.8 | and we know that police somehow managed to de-escalate, disarm and not |
0:55.0 | kill white people every day. So what's going to happen is we are going to have |
0:59.3 | equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours. |
1:06.3 | Jesse Williams, y'all, that was from 2016, the BET speech and joining me right now, |
1:11.6 | how to show in the Galaxy, carry not the show Mr Jesse Williams |
1:15.8 | welcome thank you so much for having me I appreciate it I was so excited when I was like |
1:20.4 | man I get to sit in front of you. Well I'm excited to be here. |
1:24.0 | Thank you. |
1:25.0 | When you listen back to that, that was an ex-temporaneous. |
1:30.0 | Did you take several days to craft that speech because it was |
1:33.0 | brilliant. It was both. Thank you. There was definitely some in the |
1:37.3 | moment just riding the vibe of the room that I was in, but on the flight in I made some notes, some bullet points on my phone. |
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