As best-selling Black woman writer Tina McElroy Ansa perfectly said on Twitter, “All he had to do was reach over, squeeze her hand and say to her, ‘Fuck him! We got this, babe.’ Then sit back and start revising his acceptance speech.” Meaning that the slap never should have happened. Had that slap taken place on the A train, at the cookout or anywhere else around the way, Black folk everywhere could all agree that that was some foolishness. Hollywood is a beast, and I have nothing but compassion for all three of my people caught in the backwash of the 2022 Oscars. The film industry has, historically, swirled us around just enough to get a taste of Blackness and, soon enough, spit us out. Red Table Talk Promises Discussion of Will Smith Oscar's Incident "When the Time Calls"
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