Why can't it just be - Smith thought he could, in front of millions of viewers across the globe, hit another man and get away with it because he's a movie star.
The Bitch Slap wasn't about Black vs White or that Whitey made him do it. This happened between two men and that's it. Rock should sue his ass but
Hollywood mucky-mucks will interfere and plead with Rock to let it go then create some sort of Kumbaya moment for Hollywood.
"Dr. Bernice King, the youngest child of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., addressed Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at Sunday's Academy Awards on Twitter Monday, saying that anybody who thought the incident reflected poorly on members of the Black community "already thought Black people look bad."
Rock, who was on stage to present the Oscar award for best documentary feature, made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith. The joke referenced the actress's buzzed haircut; Pinkett-Smith has openly discussed suffering hair loss due to the autoimmune disorder alopecia. Smith took to the stage and slapped Rock in a moment that shocked viewers.
Discussion about the confrontation on various outlets and on social media has touched on different aspects of racism. King, who is the CEO of the King Center, was among the prominent names to offer an opinion.
"Anybody who thinks 'Black people look bad' after the #Oscars already thought Black people look bad," she tweeted. "Respectability doesn't cure racism."
She added, "Be Love, but please don't think that a person who uses one moment to malign a whole group of people did not do so before that moment."
Before King's tweets, other Black voices had already offered their take on the issue of race in regards to the incident, including activist/author Dr. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu.
"The Academy Awards has condoned violence for years particularly violence against women rewarding White men who've raped/sexual assaulted/domestically abused women Now some of y'all demanding Will Smith, 5th Black man to win #Oscars, to be stripped? Where was this energy before?" Mos-Shogbamimu tweeted.
Meanwhile, Donald Kipkorir, a successful lawyer in Africa, wrote: "Just wondering: If Chris Rock was white instead of black, would Will Smith still have been given the Oscar 29 minutes later? Would Will Smith still be out there or in police custody? AMPAS [Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences] is reflective of US Society: Black on Black violence is ok & has no consequences."
King further addressed the altercation between Smith in Rock in additional tweets Monday. She began a thread after some Twitter users questioned her about her stance on nonviolence, as King preaches that principle in her ministerial work and at the King Center, which devotes itself to spreading her father's message of making the world more peaceful and humane for everybody.
"'Condone' is such an intriguing word, often wreaking of ignorance or arrogance. How about sharing what we commit to not being and to eradicating?" King wrote. "Because a lot of people are saying 'I don't condone violence,' but may only mean the type of violence they're uncomfortable with."
"I'm seeing comments about our children being influenced by violence at the #Oscars. Our children are inundated with various forms of violence, including state-sanctioned violence, every day. We need to deal with some root issues," King also wrote. "We need to deal with some root issues."
She added in another tweet, "We need to teach our children, by example and by education, about historical violence, interpersonal violence, gun violence, white supremacist violence, economic violence, psychological violence, etc. Then we need to expose the layers of violence and roots of violence."
Link: tweets can be read on the link
Minority privilege is a real thing.
the ridiculousness of what I just linked. Saying that makes you no better or more right than those in the article.
with it, or better say he would take anything, i.e. any consequence, any punishment for what he thought a right thing for him to do, a worthy thing for him to do.
The guy is an emotional wreck just like so many people today in this country, has a poor mental health. That's all. No more post about him. Instead we should talk more about why so many people today are angry, prone to meltdown, full of hate, getting upset easily.... We should talk more about mental health.
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Are liberals giving Will smith a pass because they think this behavior is natural to Smith as he “is a work in progress” to filter out these innate cultural behaviors?
Seems incredibly racist to give him a pass. White liberal OSCARITES talking to each other: “Well, you know he’s black. I mean, this is just a normal thing for them to do in their environment. We need to show understanding as we work it out of him so that we can keep our appearances of diversity up. Plus, after recent criticism of being an all white party - see 2019-2020, imagine how it would look for us”
The OSCARS has had 7 decades with nothing like this happening. Smith assaulted and humiliated a man on stage after his wife watched him laugh at an insulting joke about her. He should have his membership and reward revoked like any man who did the same would have done. He isn’t going to jail, he is still very rich, and he is not even being sued.
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We agree on how Smith should be punished. Don’t ruin our moment.
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I don't know what Smith being #5 has to do with any of it.
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