Hollywood ceremony became a rally for Black Lives Matter — and Hillary.
The Black Entertainment Television awards show has always been an event devoted to celebrating African-American artists, actors, and athletes. But this year, it was a Black Lives Matter night — and a not-so-impromptu rally for Hillary Clinton.
While trophies were given out in 20 categories — Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Nicki Minaj among the winners — the speeches and comments were politically charged, filled with allegations of “The Man” holding down blacks and calls for viewers and attendees to support the presumed Democratic nominee for president.
Never mind that there is currently a black man in the White House and that the new supposed champion of civil rights is an elderly white woman — that point was lost among the rowdy rhetoric of the night.
“We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil — black gold — ghettoizing and demeaning our creations and stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit,” “Grey’s Anatomy” actor Jesse Williams said when he accepted the Humanitarian Award.
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