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SingerMichelle Williamswould really like everyone to stop confusing her withMichelle Williams, the actress.
“How come when y’all are tagging and congratulating a person, do y’all see that I’m black?” the 40-year-old singer asked,per a video of the live streamsaved and shared on Twitter. “When you go to my profile, you search for the ‘Michelle Williams,’ I am black. OK? I ain’t mixed with nothing, I ain’t mixed with Persian, Russian, I am black.”
Her namesake, the 39-year-old actress, took home the Emmy for outstanding actress in a limited series or a movie honor on Sunday for her portrayal of Broadway dancer Gwen Verdon inFosse/Verdon.
The first-time Emmy winner used her acceptance speech totake a stand on the fight for equal pay.
“Thank you so much to FX and Fox 21 Studios for supporting me completely and paying me equally because they understood that when you put value into a person, it empowers that person to get in touch with their own inherent value,” Williams said at Sunday’s ceremony. “And then where do they put that value? They put it into her work.”
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“So the next time a woman, and especially a woman of color — because she stands to make 52 cents on the dollar compared to her white male counterpart — tells you what she needs in order to do her job, listen to her, believe her,” she added. “Because one day she might stand in front of you and say thank you for allowing her to succeed because of her workplace environment and not in spite of it.”
The actress had previouslyopened up about her own fight for equal paywhileworking onAll the Money in the World— finding out she made less than $1000 for scene reshoots while her male costar, Mark Wahlberg made $1.5 million.
“I stand beside Michelle Williams on her speech,” the musician said. “She was beautiful. She was brilliant. Honey, she played Gwen Verdon to a T. She was AWESOME.”
“Now get it right, and stop cussing me out,” she added.
source: people.com
