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"Jesse Williams has praised the way race is handled in Grey&amp;#039;s Anatomy. Williams, who plays Jackson, told USA Today that he liked the storyline in which his character&amp;#039;s white grandfather came to visit. &amp;quot;One of my grandfathers is white, so I thought it was really cool,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;A good friend of mine said, &amp;#039;I think that is the first time I&amp;#039;ve seen on TV a biracial character with a surprise family member and nobody mentions [race]. It&amp;#039;s not mentioned at all&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Williams added that he likes the fact that race is not an issue on the series. &amp;quot;I remember some reporter asked me, &amp;#039;Oh, so you&amp;#039;re going to be the black McDreamy?&amp;#039; and what I&amp;#039;m so happy about is that I&amp;#039;m on a show where I&amp;#039;m not going to be &amp;#039;the black&amp;#039; anything,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;They do such a good job of having human beings be human beings and black characters be fully, complete individuals.&amp;quot; He continued: &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re not defined by some BS version of TV race, which we see time and time again, where people have to announce their race and feel some need to identify, and usually limit themselves. Black characters on TV are usually limiting - they&amp;#039;re never positive or complimentary. So I think it&amp;#039;s great to be in a place where that can be real.&amp;quot; Grey&amp;#039;s Anatomy continues on Thursdays at 9/8c on ABC. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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