Wendell Pierce took to social media on Monday to share that his software for a New York Metropolis residence had been denied, which he alleged was attributable to his race.
“Even with my proof of employment, financial institution statements and actual property holdings, a white residence proprietor DENIED my software to hire the residence…..in Harlem, of all locations,” Pierce wrote on X, previously Twitter. “Racism and bigots are actual. There are those that will do something to destroy life’s journey for Black of us. While you deny our private experiences, you’re as vile and despicable.”
Pierce wrote in the identical tweet that he presently stars in two tv sequence, Elsbeth and Elevating Kanan, and that he’s presently filming Superman. He additionally famous that he completed the fourth season of Jack Ryan two years in the past and completed a Broadway run of Loss of life of a Salesman final 12 months. Regardless of offering proof of all these jobs, his software was nonetheless denied.
The following day, Pierce shared a hyperlink to a Wall Avenue Journal story concerning an appeals courtroom that blocked Atlanta-based funding agency Fearless Fund from working a grant program for Black ladies.
“Whereas I admire the response to my very own private expertise of discrimination in housing, I solely talked about it for instance of the insidious nature of bigotry,” Pierce wrote. “This courtroom choice is profoundly extra disturbing and injurious. CALL TO ACTION.”
Previous to sharing the article, Pierce additionally revealed an X thread in regards to the appeals courtroom choice, writing that “the hassle being made to disclaim Black of us from collaborating in ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ is abhorrent. A non-public enterprise deal blocked by the courts. What occurred to much less authorities intervention in our lives.”
In the identical thread, he added, “It makes me sick motherfucker how far you’ll go to destroy our means to dwell our lives in peace and prosperity. Attacked in colleges, attacked by police, attacked for anticipating to dwell the acknowledged values of this nation, and attacked when profitable in enterprise. We maintain these truths to be self evident, that each one males are created equal. For generations we now have embraced that lie because the violence in opposition to our neighborhood proves in any other case. It’s getting more durable to remain in denial. America.”
Throughout Monday and Tuesday, the actor shared a number of extra threads associated to the appeals courtroom and systemic racism in America, ultimately sharing the identical WSJ article once more and writing, “That is an act of institutionalized racism by the courts not seen in years. A stealth act of bigotry within the shadows.”