{"id":41006,"date":"2015-04-30T19:55:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T19:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=41006"},"modified":"2015-04-30T19:55:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T19:55:33","slug":"there-is-nothing-black-about-rioting-actor-jesse-williams-unloads-on-baltimore-critics-in-passionate-twitter-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41006","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThere is nothing \u2018black\u2019 about rioting\u201d: Actor Jesse Williams unloads on Baltimore critics in passionate Twitter essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/04\/28\/so_exactly_what_kind_of_violence_dont_you_like_actor_jesse_williams_baltimore_rant\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u201cThere is nothing \u2018black\u2019 about rioting\u201d: Actor Jesse Williams unloads on Baltimore critics in passionate Twitter essay<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Salon<\/a><br \/>\n2015-04-28<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joannarothkopf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Joanna Rothkopf<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Editor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/04\/28\/so_exactly_what_kind_of_violence_dont_you_like_actor_jesse_williams_baltimore_rant\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.salon.com\/2014\/08\/jesse_williams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>(Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/pic-163897952\/stock-photo-los-angeles-oct-jesse-williams-arrives-to-the-real-steel-los-angeles-premiere-on-oct.html?src=afgiJX3P-zkyNLKv-n9lFQ-1-18\" target=\"_blank\">DFree<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Shutterstock<\/em><\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>The &#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8221; actor wrote about the prevelance of rioting throughout history<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Monday evening, as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2015_Baltimore_riots\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore was rocked by violent and nonviolent protests alike<\/a>, actor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jesse_Williams_(actor)\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Williams<\/a>, known for his role on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grey%27s_Anatomy\" target=\"_blank\">Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/a>\u201d and for occasionally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/08\/19\/jesse_williams_is_pushing_greys_anatomy_fans_to_think_about_ferguson_and_police_violence\/\" target=\"_blank\">weighing in on issues of race and police brutality<\/a>, wrote what amounted to an essay on the history of rioting.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole thing below:..<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/04\/28\/so_exactly_what_kind_of_violence_dont_you_like_actor_jesse_williams_baltimore_rant\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is nothing \u2018black\u2019 about rioting\u201d: Actor Jesse Williams unloads on Baltimore critics in passionate Twitter essay Salon 2015-04-28 Joanna Rothkopf, Assistant Editor (Credit: DFree via Shutterstock) The &#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8221; actor wrote about the prevelance of rioting throughout history On Monday evening, as Baltimore was rocked by violent and nonviolent protests alike, actor Jesse Williams, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,20],"tags":[5973,18889,20001,5972,10962],"class_list":["post-41006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-baltimore","tag-jesse-williams","tag-joanna-rothkopf","tag-maryland","tag-salon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}