Read the Full Transcript of Jesse Williams’ Powerful Speech on Race at the BET Awards
Time Magazine
Jun 27, 2016

“Grey’s Anatomy actor Jesse Williams was awarded BET’s Humanitarian Award on Sunday night. The outspoken human rights activist—who executive produced the recent documentary, Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement— delivered a powerful and political speech about the cause he’s worked so hard on.

“Referencing recent victims of police brutality, Williams discussed the violence against black people and the struggles they’ve faced throughout history: ‘There has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of. There has been no job we haven’t done. There is no tax they haven’t leveed against us,’ he said.”

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