Dont let anyone tell you the Jussie Smollett trial, which opened Monday is overblown, prosecutorial overreach, shouldnt be happening or doesnt matter. It matters. A lot.
As does the way Smolletts claims were treated by the media.
No matter how outlandish his story was and it was a whopper the mainstream media and Hollywoods social justice warriors lapped it up as proof of Americas intractable racism and homophobia.
Yet as we soon learned, Smollett, who is black and gay, staged the attack to get a raise on his soon-to-be-cancelled TV show Empire.
Only Dave Chappelle expertly vivisected Smolletts story, contrasting Hollywoods immediate outrage with the African-American communitys silence in his 2019 Netflix special Sticks & Stones:
What they didnt understand is that we were supporting him with our silence. . . . Because we understood.......