We’ve seen so many hot takes about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Academy Awards ceremony last Sunday night, and a lot of them come from black writers who say, “What Will Smith did was wrong, but ….” Then they pretty much excuse Smith and then make the incident about white people. The Guardian ran a piece arguing that “white rage” over the slap was “rooted in anti-Blackness.” Forbes told us not to discuss the incident without also discussing the white supremacist system that enabled it.
Now we have MSNBC host Tiffany Cross comparing to a black wife slapping her black husband at the dinner table and how inappropriate it would be for a white dinner guest to say anything. (What if the roles were reversed and the man slapped the woman?) Here’s one more take on why white people’s opinion of Smith’s behavior shouldn’t be considered.
MSNBC’s @TiffanyDCross on Will Smith vs. Chris Rock: “It is utterly ridiculous to center this in the opinions of white folks … The jumping-off point should not be, ‘Oh, but what might the white people think about it?’” pic.twitter.com/P7q8loPAJX
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) April 2, 2022
🙄🙄🙄🙄
— Maryus Elizabethii 🦦 (@mycomood) April 2, 2022
They have race-baiter 2.0 on deck for when Joy Reid leaves
— MatthewVWillbanks (@51VaporTrail) April 2, 2022
Embarrassing analogy
— Bhodiwulf (@songofbhodiwulf) April 2, 2022
Why do they have to make everything about race?
— Derek Turner (@Derektu25384307) April 2, 2022
So….she is willing to *not* comment on anything between 2 white people?
— 🎵🎶Del Paxton’s Piano🎶🎵 (@Mark_Derr) April 2, 2022
Let’s play that again but it’s white people talking and blacks can have no opinion.
Sound good?
— Ed (@dumbluck2010) April 2, 2022
Why did so many blacks weigh in on the Kyle Rittenhouse case? That was white-on-white violence.
I’m white & I really don’t care what Will Smith did to Chris Rock or vice versa. Why are white people being drug into an altercation between two black people? Were we somehow responsible? 🤡show
— Ben (@esbenny1) April 2, 2022
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The mental gymnastics it takes to make this about white people
— Justin Franks (@FRANKSJUSTIN) April 2, 2022
Straight clown world
— LGBFJB Community Prez (@burneracct99919) April 2, 2022
I really don't understand her point… is she saying it's normal for black men to slap each other at black-tie events?
— K. Walker — Fringe Minority Member (@TheMrsKnowItAll) April 2, 2022
@MSNBC is beyond parody at this point.
— seth shurtleff (@shurtleffs) April 2, 2022
Related:
Guardian columnist writes that ‘white outrage’ over Will Smith’s Oscar slap ‘is rooted in anti-Blackness’ https://t.co/MnYjgaquC4
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 29, 2022
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