NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Who Has Tourette’s, Says ‘BAFTA Could Have Censored the Damn Thing’

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who was the city’s first publicly elected official with Tourette syndrome, released a video on Monday night in which he expressed disappointment that BAFTA did not better support all parties involved in the N-word debacle: Michael B. Jordan, Delroy Lindo and John Davidson.

“I have Tourette syndrome, diagnosed more than 30 years ago,” Williams says in the clip. “You might be able to tell I’m also a very proud Black man. I also have Coprolalia, which means I sometimes tic socially unacceptable words, including the N-word.”

Williams goes on to say that the incident on Sunday — in which Davidson, Tourette’s activist…