Friday, March 29, 2024

Wendy Williams Ripped for Comments About Jesse Williams & HBCU’s

wendy-jesse*On Wednesday’s show, Wendy Williams made comments about Jesse Williams’ BET Awards acceptance speech, the NAACP and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that left many hitting up their social media accounts and firing out comments of rage and confusion at the talk show host.

HipHollywood.com notes that while speaking on the petition circulating to get Jesse fired from Grey’s Anatomy, Wendy explained that she saw both sides of the story, but her so-called understanding of the issues received strong backlash.

“I must say to you, he was on BET. His speech was very poignant,” Williams said on her show this week. “On the other hand, I would be really offended if there was a school that was known as a historically white college. We have historically Black colleges. What if there was the National Organization for White People, only? There’s the NAACP.”

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Many fans compared Wendy to Stacey Dash, who called Jesse a plantation slave for speaking against the white supremacist foot that’s stepping on the neck of the black collective.

When her studio audience sat there in dead silence after her comments, Williams added:

“Look, everybody’s quiet. You’re leaving me out here to dry by myself? One wrong word — I’m choosing my words carefully, but what I am saying is racism s**ks and we can all do better in our household, educating ourselves and teaching our children to make it better.”

Revisiting the topic of HBCUs, she said:

“National speeches like this will always rub people the wrong way just like white people will be offended because Spelman College is a historically Black college for women. You might feel funny about that. I know I’d feel funny, like I just told you. If there was a white college or whatever.”

Read some of the social media reactions below, and check out the video clip of the segment:

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And we saved the best for last. Now watch Roland Martin riiiiiiip Wendy a new one:

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