{"id":43049,"date":"2015-10-03T03:15:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T03:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43049"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:50:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:50:10","slug":"jesse-williams-celebrity-culture-i-am-not-going-to-participate-in-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43049","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Williams: ‘Celebrity culture? I am not going to participate in that’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesse Williams: ‘Celebrity culture? I am not going to participate in that’<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2015-10-01<\/p>\n

Jana Kasperkevic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The <\/em>Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/a> star is back on screen as TV pin-up Jackson Avery, but for the former teacher it\u2019s his civil rights work he wants people to talk about<\/em><\/p>\n

There is a heatwave making its way through Los Angeles<\/a>. It\u2019s the second week of September yet temperatures remain at 32C (89F). At 8am, most of the city is still asleep or just waking up, while surfers at Venice Beach<\/a> have already spent hours searching for the perfect wave. About 5,000 of the city\u2019s residents will wake up to no power<\/a> as demand on the power grid has triggered blackouts.<\/p>\n

On South La Brea Avenue<\/a>, the street seems deserted except for Jesse Williams<\/a>, who has seemingly appeared out of nowhere \u2013 with no car in sight or handlers in view as he casually strolls up the street. It\u2019s a surprisingly low-key entrance into the world of a man millions of viewers watched when Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/a><\/em> returned to ABC for its 12th season. On average, about 8.22 million viewers<\/a> tuned in every Thursday night during its 11th season…<\/p>\n

..Being biracial \u2013 his mom is white and his dad is black \u2013 Williams has been able to experience both sides of the spectrum. \u201cI have access to rooms and information. I am white and I am also black. I am invisible man in a lot of these scenarios. I know how white people talk about black people. I know how black people talk about white folks. I know I am there and everyone speaks honestly around me,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember a mom of a friend of mine in the suburbs made some comment about a black person and \u2013 I had to be 12, about 60 pounds \u2013 and I said something and she said: \u2018Oh no, not you. You are not black. You are great.\u2019 It was real. That fucking happened. And she meant it. And she meant it sincerely and sweetly. She was paying me a compliment.\u201d…<\/p>\n

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Jesse Williams: ‘Celebrity culture? I am not going to participate in that’ The Guardian 2015-10-01 Jana Kasperkevic The Grey\u2019s Anatomy star is back on screen as TV pin-up Jackson Avery, but for the former teacher it\u2019s his civil rights work he wants people to talk about There is a heatwave making its way through Los […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,8,23674,20],"tags":[21260,18889,2103],"class_list":["post-43049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-jana-kasperkevic","tag-jesse-williams","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43049","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=43049"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51696,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43049\/revisions\/51696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}