Jesse Williams Blasts 'Performative Diversity,' Optimistic About Inclusion in Film

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Jesse Williams is all for progress being made in the film industry ... admitting he's optimistic about the future of diversity -- so long as it isn't just for show.

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00:00What's the, how have we started to make strides that we need to keep pushing on, maybe also

00:08what should we throw away?

00:10From what I've seen, I've seen two strains.

00:13I do see sincere progress.

00:18I also saw the trap of performative diversity, which is around the season, we all remember

00:26the season of George Floyd, just to put it in a curt way, where people do their black

00:33square and they create a role.

00:35I mean, what are, speaking of confessions, all these businesses that have to hire somebody.

00:41I'm not going to stop being racist.

00:43I need to hire somebody and pay them a lot of money to police my racism, to keep me from

00:49only hiring white men.

00:50That confession that that is probably coming from this DEI stuff.

00:55So there's that performance that then just expires.

00:59And it also sets you up to, we've certainly, you know, I definitely have seen a lot of

01:05hiring people that are, they don't know well enough to know whether they're qualified,

01:11but it gives you a black friend.

01:13And then they fail because you starve them to death.

01:15And then now I don't even see.

01:17See, I tried.

01:20And then they don't have to do it again.

01:22And they're validated and you're stuck.

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