The rap is: “Black Men Are Violent” and Will Smith fed that myth far too much when, with pre-meditation he walked onstage at the 2022 Oscars on March 27, 2022 and slapped Chris Rock. Gunner Myrdal wrote a massive set of books that identified the excessive violence of blacks “An American Dilemma ” back in 1944. Will Smith added to that dilemma and made it infinitely harder for black men to overcome the idea, the attitude that black men are more violent than men of other races. Will Smith damaged all blacks especially black men. He admitted he was massively wrong to hit Chris Rock but the damage has been doen and it cannot be undone because it happened. It was witnessed. It was recorded. The recording has been and will be repeated. It annot be undone.
Even though Smith profusely and sincerely apologized as follows, the damage has been done and recorded for all time. :
In a post on Instagram on Monday afternoon, Smith called his behavior “unacceptable and inexcusable.”
“Jokes at my expense are a part of the job, but a joke about Jada’s medical condition was too much for me to bear and I reacted emotionally,” he wrote. “I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris. I was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be. There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness.”
Smith added in his post that, “Violence in all forms is poisonous and destructive.”
He also included in his note an apology to “the Academy, the producers of the show, all the attendees and everyone watching around the world,” as well as the family of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams and those involved with the film for which he won his best actor award on Sunday.
“I deeply regret that my behavior has stained what has been an otherwise gorgeous journey for all of us,” he wrote. “I am a work in progress.”
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