Jesse Williams: Revivalist for opposition

After preachers shout familiar scriptures following the phrase, “And Jesus said…” congregations respond with praise.
Recently, BET honored actor/activist Jesse Williams with a humanitarian award.  His, now famous, acceptance speech addressed inequality, police brutality, and cultural commandeering.
One admirer said it was like his words were written by James Baldwin and delivered by Malcolm X, but if that’s the case then the actor/activist said nothing new.
(Like Jeremiah Wright said nothing new at the beginning of the Obama Era. It was just new to Whites who never heard of Black liberation theology.)
So why all the praise?
Social activism has a religiosity of its own and each cause has its own gospel.
So when Williams said: