Katt Williams: Our Ancestors Soft as Twinkies, Die Before Accepting Slavery

RadioOnFire.com - Katt Williams recently weighed in on the state of Black America, on the heels of racial turmoil sprung about by the decried shootings of Black citizens by police throughout the month of July. Comedy Hype caught up with Williams at Red Grant's second annual Golf Beef, where the comedian began his response to host Nika Simone's inquiry into what he might deem the best approach towards raising awareness, by speaking for himself in declaring that he needs to do better. After expanding on the concept of taking responsibility of information we give and receive, and how each individual internalizing that idea translates to society being better prepared to deal with such crises as a whole. Simone picked Williams' brain on whether he feels better assimilating into areas where Black people have a systemic disadvantage, might equate to them helping directly impact change.

"You take on the shape of your host. So the question is, I'm with God and I'm part of his army so does that mean that maybe I could just join Satan's group and help fix it from the inside? No, it does not. It doesn't work that way," Williams responded. "Certain things we dare not to touch. So 20 years ago, 25 years ago, it was a great idea to get into the police department and make those changes, but those people that did found out that those changes aren't in your hands any more than they are in the hands of the people that are there now."

Williams would go on to speak to the idea of autonomy, and the condition a people find themselves in when they lack ownership, inferring that one cannot change something they do not have domain over. He presented the bind he sees the Black community finding itself in as the sort of powerlessness their very ancestors lived under, characterizing those who resigned to slavery as "soft as Twinkie fillings." He concluded that "If you don't die rather than be a slave, then you know what that makes you," before highlighting how such sovereign warriors as the Spartans chose to fight till the death before they folded to the will of an oppressor. Williams included that it is written in the very United States Constitution that the people have the authority to overthrow an oppressor.

"But at the end of the day, we're at a different place as minorities. We're at a place now where we realize that anything that could be done was already done by better people than us. And so, if they appreciated Martin Luther King and his marches, then they should've acted like it," he said. "And the next time it come around, it ain't no marching; it's just marching at you."

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