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One of the highlights of Sunday night’s BET Awards was, without a doubt, the acceptance speech Jesse Williams gave for his Humanitarian Award.
The actor and activist spoke truth to power in the speech, where he called out white America for “extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil” and “ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them.”
Many celebs were moved by the speech, including Justin Timberlake, who tweeted about how inspiring it was — only to later unintentionally reveal that he completely missed what Williams was saying.
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