Wendell Pierce shocked everyone by revealing he was discriminated against while applying to rent an apartment. He tells The Daily Beast why he shared the deeply personal story.
shocked just about everyone when he tweeted on Tuesday night that he was discriminated against by a white landlord while trying to rent a Harlem apartment last year., shared the story to show that racism affects people of color no matter what their status is.
Pierce said he shared his story to show a “personal example of how destructive and insidious bigotry and racism are, and how it is memorialized into what institutionalized racism is.” “It makes me sick motherfucker how far you will go to destroy our ability to live our lives in peace and prosperity,” he said. “Attacked in schools, attacked by police, attacked for expecting to live the stated values of this country, and attacked when successful in business. We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal. For generations we have embraced that lie as the violence against our community proves otherwise.
“In my industry, 33% tax credits are given to Hollywood studios to bring production to Louisiana, Georgia, and many other states. Oil companies are given subsidies to develop and drill for oil. TAX DOLLARS GIVEN AS CORPORATE WELFARE,”said in his Twitter comments. “Yet a private investor wants to invest in Black women investors with private equity and the racist agenda of the right wing seeks to destroy any economic development in the Black community.
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