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You will NOT make Jada Pinkett Smith the villain for Oscars 2022

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You will NOT make Jada Pinkett Smith the villain for Oscars 2022

Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, not Jada Pinkett Smith

Shamontiel L. Vaughn
Mar 28, 2022
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You will NOT make Jada Pinkett Smith the villain for Oscars 2022

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I fully intended to wake up in the morning, maybe laugh at a couple of Oscar memes, browse through comments on this link about the Will Smith smack and go about my day. I’m not married to either one of them. They are not my family. And there is far bigger news than this awards show.

I’d shrugged off the entire incident about an hour after writing the post mentioned above. But now? Now some of you have pissed me off. Somehow, some way and in some deep level of stupid, there’s a segment of the population that has chosen to do what happens in every single scenario with a black woman: You’ve chosen to blame Jada Pinkett Smith for the altercation tonight.

Absolutely brainless, racist white men salivate at any opportunity to insult a black woman — yeah, talking to you, Tom Segura!

Take a casual scroll through social media, and the status updates and tweets go from talking about who is wrong and right between Chris Rock and Will Smith. Dig a little more, and you may see a few folks educating others on what alopecia is. But I’m starting to see a draining trend rise to the top of the social media trends that has made me go from “Meh” to “WTF?”

It’s “blame Jada.”

Recommended Read: “When black men protect black women ~ Overlooking the larger request from the #ProtectBlackWomen hashtag after the Will Smith slap”

Chris Rock made an insensitive joke about Jada Pinkett Smith shaving her head. Whether he knew she had alopecia or not is anybody’s guess. It’s not like she’s kept it a secret. She’s spoken at length about her insecurities with her hair thinning out and had an entire episode with a group of women who all were bald for varying reasons — medical or by choice.

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