jesse williams comments were racist.nd should be fired from "grey's anatomy" am i will no longer watch any respondentar rhimes show. ma'am, who is rhonda rhimes? is this a cross between rhonda rousey and leanne rhimes? or is this a show about a kick boxes country singer? bet just got 25,000 more white viewers. this entire competition and everyone who signed it is a seven layer bean dip of nope. if you think speaking out about police brutality is anti-cop that means killing black people is procop? of course not. jesse williams doesn't hate cops and doesn't hate white people. he like all of us should, hates the brutal murders of black people by police who use their fear to inform their force. (cheers and applause) let's focus our anger on the real issue. you want to fire jesse williams, how about we fire all those racist cops and send their asses to jail. and let us let the good cops do their jobs. and jesse to continue to save lives and give new life on thursday night. >> larry: franchesca ramsey, everybody. we'll be righ

in this holiday special we turn now to the actor and activist jesse williams. own for playing dr. jackson avery on the tv series grey's anatomy, williams is also a longtime activist for racial justice. he is a board member of the advancement project and was the executive producer of the documentary stay woke: the movement for black lives matter. last month he won the humanitarian award at the bet awards established by black entertainment television. we end today's broadcast with jesse williams' acceptance speech. jesse williams: before we get into it, i just want to say, you know, i brought my parents out tonight. i just want to thank them for being here, for teaching me to focus on comprehension over career, that they made sure i learned what the schools were afraid to teach us. and also i thank my amazing wife for changing my life. now, this award, this is not for me. this is for the real organizers all over the country -the activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students-that are realizing that a system

jesse williams.n the bbt awards and i think you always win when you can take what is a fun sort of unserious occasion that talks about music and fun and turn it into a moment of incredible moral clarity. let's take a listen to jesse williams acceptance of hum humanitarian award. >> if you have a critique for our resistance, you better have an established record of critique of our impression. if you have no interest in equal rights for black people. do not make suggestions to those who do. sit down. >> now, what's great about jesse williams, ipg he is the celebrity who's taken the biggest risks with his brand. he was on gray's anatomy. i met him in 2012, walking around in ohio. trying to get people to vote. and he's a sincere activist and i think very deserving of who won the week because he takes that risk with his brand for good. >> all live matter. sure, but if all lives mattered, wouldn't need a black lives matter movement and he articulated it better than any hollywood celebrity yet. >> i think h

a change.org petition to have jesse williams fired is up to 18,000 signatures. creator accuses him of delivering a hate filled speech against law enforcement officers and white people at the b.e.t. awards. rhymes rhymes said boo don't need a petition basically saying he isn't going anywhere. there are counter petitions to keep williams on the show. one called it an eloquent call to action against african americans being murdered at the hands of police across america. >> it is a colossal waste of everyone's time. >> it is. >>> kale at the cuocco is picture of her dog sitting on an american flag. common tors called it disrespectful and demanded an apology. maybe they even started a petition. we are not sure. the actress said it was posted by her dog sitar while she was out of town. >> you give your dog sitter your instagram credentials? i think not. she apologized to anyone that may have been offended. >>> what a fitness trainer wore to a wedding. this will get a lot of you talking. >> this is liz. she posted this on instagram. she is an athletic instructor in min

scott: actor jesse williams went viral for his speech at the b.e.t. awards.but as a result, two different petitions are also going viral. michelle: that is right. one petition is to have the "grey's anatomy" star another is to save his job. they called the speech racist and has 5,200 signatures. but the support petition has 19,500 signatures. the show creator shonda rhimes tweeted, "boo don't need a petition." she used the #shondarules. she is in charge and she decides dr. avery won't hang up the white coat. scott: hollywood controversy. all right. well, it's neon green toxic invasion. officials in florida calling unprecedented green algae prompting environmental, economic and health concerns. michelle: elizabeth hur has the latest on the state of emergency in the sunshine state. reporter: this green slimy mess that looks disgusting and smells even worse -- >> smells like death. dead, rotten fish. reporter: is toxic algae closing several beaches or swimmers into spectators along florida's treasure coast. >> got a car full of snorkeling gear and can't get in t

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right now jack daniels is the jesse williams of liquors. [ laughter ] >> larry: really? oh, yeah. it's smooth. it's woke. and i want to take it into my bathtub and pour it all over my grace anatomy. [ laughter ] jesse, call me! [ cheers and applause ] >> larry: all right, grace. you've been cut off. all right. >> slave responsibly! no, don't slave responsibly. grace parra, everyone. we'll be right back. [ crowd cheering ] beer! ice cold beer! hey, can we get some beers? what beer? ummmm... redd's apple ale! i'll take one too. me too! hey! redd's apple ale! redd's apple ale. crisp like an apple. brewed like a beer. by switching to xfinity x1. rio olympic games show me gymnastics. x1 lets you search by sport, watch nbc's highlights and catch every live event on your tv with nbc sports live extra. i'm getting ready. are you? x1 will change the way you experience nbcuniversal's coverage of the rio olympic games. call or go online today to switch to x1. >> larry: welcome back. i'm here with my panel. first up, "nightly show" contributor ricky velez, "nightly show" contributor grace parr

last weekend at the bet awards jesse williams gave an electrifying speech.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. >> larry: during the show, justin timberlake tweeted that he was inspired. then he got trolled for somebody sensitive and then twitter responded with this tweet and then twitter lost its mind. he thought he was being condescending. why do you think there was a big reaction to this reaction. >> i feel that the issue is not justin timberlake having an input or even appreciating what was said in this speech. i mean that's something that everybody, most people can resonate with. our problem here is that justin timberlake himself is definitely benefiting from using black culture for his sound, his dance moves, his dancers and blowing up off of it. but if you go down justin tim her lake's twitters for the past few years which i just did there's nothing that supports bl

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if it were up to his critics, jesse williams would be out after job this morning, one group calling foro be fired from grays anatomy, all of this, coming after his passionate acceptance speech at the bet awards. so the group that wants jesse fired says it was quote hate speech against law enforcement and white people. supporters of the actor say ways quote he will want and passionate call to action. here is a short clip. >> the burdens end of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander. that's not our job. if you have critique for resistance, then you better have established record of critique of our impression. if you have no interest, if you are no interest in equal right for black people then do not make suggestions for those who do. sit down. >> he double majors in african studies, and also, taught african-american studies, african studies and english, in philadelphia public schools, for about six years, and while he received a standing ovation from the bet audience, petitions are starting to pop up on line just like this one. jesse, though, not shying away from all the backlash

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quote by begin with a jesse williams who recently gave an acceptance speech. speech has gone viral. for those who did not know, he a character on gray's anatomy. burden of thethe brutalized is not to confront the bystander, that is not our work. because this will probably or hopefully be an uncomfortable session for all of us. the reason for that is that the work of dealing with racism should be accountable. it is hard work. we are here to seek truth. we invite you to take care of yourself and be mindful of your breathing. if you ask yourselves, when you feel comfortable, where is that color,dy as people of , poverty,queer diseases, our bodies are site of struggle. we had a choice but to be in our bodies. we know our bodies are sites of power. let us all be in our bodies today. i would like to think of moment to honor the lives of the axacaers murdered in o mexico and the people murdered in orlando florida and the transgender people murdered. for people of turkey and ,fghanistan and syria and iraq venezuela, honduras, wounded knee, ferguson, jasper, baltimore them at victims of amer

hash tag shouldn't today land productions.uc >> all right. >> jesse williams responded witd tweet thattantrumsm hmm. >> he drop the mike thon speech. that's all i'm saying. >> okay.>> oy >> can we just have somee s perspective here.rspe i think that petition the lastpe time we checked had like had thousand signatures. >> the greater scheme of thing t that's not lot.otot probably not going to be off.be >> he's probably going get more airtime.rt >> up next actress caylee wokeae company apologizing this mornini for a controversial fourth ofalf july social media post. p not this one.sne she posted this image to her instagram page.ram >> not this one either. e >> not this either.hieith hopefully we'll get it up therep it is showing her doing on theoi fourth of july.th o many were quick to criticize for allowing one of her dogs to sito on american flag which is laying on the ground.onhe groun she says the photo which has since been deleted taking dog sitter and the picture doesd not reflect her feelings on whao the flag represents. she goes on to say she has quote the utmost lee inspect for

even with the jesse williams, the b.e.t. awards. his father said, son, you know, there are some things i disagreed with him, but there were some things that i agreed with him. we have to move forward. we can't hate, we have to show love, even though some may hate us. >> great interview, lawrence. thank i so much. >> thank you, don. >> i appreciate it. >>> when we come back, i'm going to talk to the african-american surgeon who fought to save the lives of police officers, why he says the experience changed him. been trying to prepare for this day... and i'm still not ready. the reason i'm telling you this is that there will be moments in your life that... you'll never be ready for. your little girl getting married being one of them. ♪ ♪ at our retirement plan today. not now! i'm cleaning the oven! yeah, i'm cleaning the gutters! washing the dog! washing the cat! well i'm learning snapchamp! chat. chat! changing the oil... (vo) it's surprising what people would rather do than deal with retirement. pressure-washing the... roses. aerati

research advisers who has just issued a report on friday which talked about, do you remember jesse williams is it that cops somehow seem to be able to deescalate when the suspect is white. yet, there is research through cpe that confirms that when the suspect is black, cops are faster to shoot them. so what we're seeing is not that it is just implicit bias that has come up in the news over the last few years. it is also a high degree of racial anxiety and a high degree of masculinity threat. >> i am going to interrupt only for one moment. cedrick alexander is being asked to stand by. a news conference where alton sterling was shot dead last week. >> we continue to ensure justice for all parties. in this specific case as with each case that i have served this community as district attorney, my office is committed to ensure justice for all parties accompanying by my equal commitment to complete transparency to ensure that justice will remain the objective focus of the investigation surrounding the circumstances of mr. alton sterling's death. i along with other city and state officials placed

. >> he was really irritated even with the jesse williams, the b.e.t. awards. his dad told me that he came to him and that was one of their last conversations. he said, son, you know, there's just some things i agree with him and some thing s i disagree. we have to move forward. we can't hate, we have to show love although some may hate us. >> it was awful. a great interview, lawrence jones. >> thank you, don. >> i appreciate it. >>> when we come right back, i'm going to talk to the african-american surgeon who fought to save the lives of dallas police officers. why he says the experience changed him. psoriasis, isn't it time to let the real you shine through? introducing otezla (apremilast). otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months, with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't take otezla if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. otezla

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you saw jesse williams get up and give that incredkrecredible >> that was electrifying. >> yeah.thing violent, but i thought to myself, n, i wonder, is his agent getting calls? that guy's a network television star. there's going to be tens of millions of people that will watch him and think that's the guy. do you feel like there's pressure? >> depends on who your boss is, shonda rhymes. >> exactly. she's like back on twitter. >> yeah. she said shut up essentially. >> let me try this one. you have one more minute. 30 seconds, why do you care enough to come to this convention? >> we're here for the creed of coalition. we're here for arts funding and arts and education. i think it is, we're talking about trying to, you know, have the more educated work force, to have a more competitive economic outlook in the future. one of the wies to get people to stay in school is to have arts programming. music is math. visual arts you can be an engineer. these are ways to connect different sides of the brain, different talents, different, all of those ways to keep people coming back to class. s

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you saw jesse williams get up at the b.e.t. that incredible -- >> that was electrifying. >> yeah. sort of like a militant speech. like nothing violent but a militant speech. >> yes. >> and i thought to myself, man, like i wonder, is his agent getting calls? that guy's a network television star. right? there's going to be tens of millions of people that will watch him and think that's the guy with those politics. do you guys feel like there's pressure on that end? >> depends on who your boss is. shonda rhimes. >> exactly. she got his back on twitter immediately. >> yeah. she said shut up essentially. >> let me try this one. we only have one more minute. i want you each to take 30 seconds. why you care enough to come to this convention. >> we're hear for the creative coalition. so we're here for arts funding. and we're here for arts in education. we're talking about trying to have a more educated workforce, to have a more competitive economic outlook in the future. one of the ways to get people to stay in school is to have arts p

a week and a half ago, after jesse williams said at the awards shows made the point perfectly and said, there is obvious data that the police will disarm, will de-escalate and not kill white people. so we need to make sure whatever they're applying in those situations are applied equally across the board. so i think there is evidence to support that the man in which policing is done in communities of color, black, latino communities, and other communities, is vastly different. but most importantly, let's not be afraid to examine this. let's not be afraid to discuss it. we need to address this, because it's a matter of life and death. and many of these instances, many of these encounters are avoidable when you go back and we hate to monday morning quarterback, but if you go back and examine the whole slew of these encounters, you'll find that there was a point, there was a period and an opportunity for de-escalation to avoid fatal police shootings. >> we're seeing so much more than we used to see with the cell phone videos. and i wonder your opinion on the police cameras, because in bat

juxtaposition of remarkably similar speech sentiments- satirically attribute more vo#2 greys anatomy star jesse williamsrted the hashtag "famous melania trump quotes" accompanied by a slew of famous lyrics like "what a man what a man, what a mighty good man he's a mighty mighty good man vo#3 anna kendrick, and joseph gordon levitt helped drive that hashtag to be a top trend, with bravo's andy cohen pointing out an unexpected rick roll during the speech. airk_2016 republican_convention he will never, ever, give up., he will never, ever, let you down. never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down meanwhile, trump is hoping the other women in his life can help change the narrative coming out of the convention. tonight his 22 year old daughter with marla maples, tiffany trump will take the podium. and thursday one of his most trusted advisors, the always poised ivanka trump will introduce him. she told gma her nerves are high. ivanka: i'm terrified / i think he wants it to come from my heart / but its def an intimidating moment we'll have so much more on this story tonight at 7 on the insider, for kron

i feel like i am a part of a or as, grander theme, jesse williams said in his own ward, the system test in his in his award, this will not stand unless we stand with it, and we refuse to do that. to me,ives matters, is people taking things in their own hands and i will take this bemy own hands and i will out here, loud, in your face, and we will create a break in the unfortunate flow that is the current black mr. lozano: thank you. thank you. [applause] yves, in the conversation that we have been having over these last couple weeks and yesterday, and one of the things we talked about, the fear of coming out as an undocumented, and one of the things we talked yesterday was language, and language that people use to talk about undocumented people. could you speak to the term illegal and the place where that's it when that word it that where that sits when that word is used. gomes: when i first came out, it was one of my counselors, and she called me down to her office, and she was, what have you not yet applied? that was the first time i came out, and i was stumbling for words because i di

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. >> william long jess is o -- wim lajeunesse is there. >> we had 1 thousand individuals show up to honor the victims of last week's ambush. friends and colleagues were there. their platform surrounded by flowers. the head of the police association called for unity. >> when everything is full is hate and anger we must find solutions. we must listen to each other rather than talking at one another. we will not let the cowardly hate filled acts let one man divide our country and our city. >> investigators are going to 170 hours of body cam video. they are going to cell phone and lap top e-mails to find out if any one else can be tied to the crime. he had three weapons a globing 19 a hand gun as well as a ar 15 style rile. -- rifle. he had steel tipped ammunition. armored piercing biden wants to see banned. the lead trauma surgeon is a black individual. he understands people's anger but the police aren't the problem. >> i understand the anger and the frustration and distrust of law enforcement, but they aren't the problem. the problem is lack of open discussions about the impact of race rela

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williams, a democrat. was financed campaign person for jesse jackson when he ran for president in the 1980's. she, working with tommy thompson, said vouchers are important. at washington, d.c., the city council person for education and mayor anthony williams, democrats who said, vouchers matter. it is more nuanced then that that if you had to draw line, charter and voucher. headline, moynihan and the modern american family. i will read it back to. the moynihan report -- and this was it 1964, the secretary of the labor department of the time -- the report was not the first inquiry into the challenges of black lives. its findings struck shocked the nation. nevertheless what was most striking was the culprit moynihan identified -- the week emily structure in black communities. and you said the unwed mother percentage was 3.8%, by 2013, it was 40 point 33%. i will put up on the screen some of the numbers you have. brian: what happened? gerard: the number of children growing up in single-parent doubled. same for expanding and same for weight families. -- same for hispanic and same for white familie

william tecumseh sherman and ulysses s. grant wouldn't have been who they were without jesse, ellen ewing and julia dent. from president lincoln in january of 1862 i knew jesse benton fremont lobbied presidene president on her husband's behalf a few months earlier. as a former congressional aide and a lobbyist i was intrigued by their lobbying efforts and by very different results that they achieved. i wanted to know more about how the influenced their husbands careers. i was confident that the that td because i was raised in a military family. and i learned very early the strength, courage and resilience required of military spouses. i began after initial research decided to also tell the stories of the trajectories of the civil war roughly matched those of fremont and sherman. like fremont, george mcclellan was one of the very first appointments to the great major-general in may of 1861 and the 62 neither of those men commanded any truths at all. lincoln had removed that of command. the same day they were made major-general, william tecumseh sherman grant received his first command two months later in

our beloved correspondent jessica williams is leaving us to create her own show on comedy central. fortunately, we have one final report from jessoup of donald trump supporters who may surprise you. >> after an impassioned democratic primary between the curb your enthusiasm guy and mother of dragons, the voting is finally over. with hillary clinton as their nominee the d. j. party united without controversy. j.k., y'all. i'm (bleep) with you! >> i won't vote for hillary. i can't vote for her. >> we're not just going to automatically vote for the demon because you're saying the devil is there. >> how can it get worse? >> one-fourth of bernie sanders says they will actually vote for donald trump. >> yep, that's worse. i gathered a bunch of actual loyal bernie sanders supporters together to see if this could possibly be true. >> probably i will be looking at trump. >> i'm going to have to go with trump. >> trump. >> why? >> he has diarrhea of the mouth, but a lot of things he says are things a lot of people may think. >> like racist things? >> racist things i would say, yeah. >> he is a bigot and a racist. however -- >> you don't h

you look at milwaukee, you have some unlikely williams who was a democrat and was campaigning finance person for jesseackson . she said vouchers are important. , theyok at washington dc were democrats who said vouchers matter. it is more nuanced than that. if you had to dry line, charger and voucher republicans, charg ter mostly democrats. >> you wrote a piece. he said this report in 1964, the former senator from new york, labor department at the time, the report was not the first federal inquiry into the tosses a black light. its findings shocked the nation. what was most striking was the culprit who he identified, the weak family structure in buck mckeon. you go on to give a lot of statistics and you say that in 1940, the birth rate to unwed mothers of all ages and races was 3.8%. by 2013, it was 44.3%. i want to put up on the screen some of the statistics. what happened? >> there were two things that happened. the number of children growing up in single-parent homes has doubled. sinker blacks and hispanics and whites. on one level that is a challenge. in the midst of that, while you still have many

william tecumseh sherman and ulysses s. grant wouldn't have been who they were without jesse benton, nelly marcy, ellen ewing and julia dent. i first twigged to this story ten years ago when i was in graduate school and learned that ellen sherman sought help for her husband from president lincoln in january of 1862. from earlier reading i knew that jesse benton fremont had lobbied the president on her husband's behalf a few months earlier. as a former congressional aide and lobbyist, i was intrigued by their lobbying efforts and by the very different results they achieved. i wanted to know more about how these wives influenced their husbands' careers. i was confident that they had, because i was raised in a military family and learned very early the strength, courage and resilience required of military spouses. i began with jesse and ellen, and after initial research, decided to also tell the stories of the wives of two men whose career trajectories in the civil war roughly matched those of fremont and sherman. like tremendous month, george brenton mcclellan was one of lincoln's very first appointments in may of 1861. by th

jesse fought too hard for her husband nelly fought not at all. unlike the other wives they were neighbors in lancaster ohio where their fathers were best friends when william's father suddenly died of typhoid ellen's father walked next door. according to family legends sherman's mother chose trump as he was always called because he was the brightest. ellen was for then. for most of their childhood ellen was out way in catholic boarding school and later he went to west point. they wrote to were to each other then and all their lives long interesting letters that transformed their trend friendship. it fostered a relationship to love. they were married in 1860 in washington across from the white house her father who was in the the united states first secretary of the interior was than renting. i learned that ellen suffered from numerous illnesses all her life. she died in 1882 at the age of 64 from heart failure. the only one of the wives to predecease her husband. but her worst ailment struck her in her youth. a form of external tuberculosis it was a widespread disease in those days before pasteurization which was invented in 1864. since it was transmitted and