Bad Form
I really don’t like to play the color game, and I didn’t watch the Oscars last night, but I saw the clip, and watching a Black man hit another Black man on national television in a setting like that is embarrassing, to say the least.
Nobody should be humiliated the way Chris Rock was. And this might be an unpopular opinion, but he was doing his job. The fact that Jada has a condition which caused her hair loss is very unfortunate, but both Will and Jada have made just as equally messed up jokes about others in the past. Will has also laughed at even more messed up jokes than Chris made about Jada. Add to that the fact that a lot of people don’t know about her condition, which could have also included Chris. If the argument there is that he should just lay off because you never know what someone is going through, then comedians everywhere should just stop making jokes period, because there’s no possible way a comedian can do their job and not offend somebody.
But for the sake of argument, even if I agreed that Jada should be off-limits, that still is no reason to assault another person the way Will did.
You know that phrase “can’t take us nowhere?” I assure you Black people all cross the country are saying that right now.