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New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams<\/a>, who was the city\u2019s 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<\/a>, Delroy Lindo<\/a> and John Davidson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have Tourette syndrome, diagnosed more than 30 years ago,\u201d Williams says in the clip. \u201cYou might be able to tell I\u2019m also a very proud Black man. I also have Coprolalia, which means I sometimes tic socially unacceptable words, including the N-word.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams goes on to say that the incident on Sunday \u2014 in which Davidson<\/a>, Tourette\u2019s activist…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who was the city\u2019s 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. \u201cI have Tourette syndrome, diagnosed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2297841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2297839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/NYC-Public-Advocate-Jumaane-Williams-Who-Has-Tourettes-Says-\u2018BAFTA.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297843,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297839\/revisions\/2297843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2297841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}