|
Yes, it is about the actor Jussie Smollett who
apparently was willing to throw caution and common sense to
the wind and concoct a plan to have himself assaulted with
racial and homophobic slurs, even to the point of having a
noose strung around his neck and having his so called
tormentors wearing MAGA hats and uttering, "This is Trump
Country!"
If there was an Academy Award for being a first class
buffoon and ignoramus, Jussie Smollett would be the
presumptive favorite to win, hands down.
If you saw the video of the black chief of police from
Chicago, you could readily gauge his contempt and disgust
for this alleged con Smollett tried to foist upon the
then-believing public.
Smollett thoroughly disgraced himself and is now on a
collision course with a judicial system that does not take
lightly-fabricated acts of racial/gay violence in order for
one to promote one's acting career.
The charge that Smollett is facing is a felony and I do
not think that the prosecutor will be bending over backwards
to offer Smollett any flowers of a great plea deal in order
to make his case go away.
No...I think that the judge and prosecutor will have
Jussie Smollett serve some prison time as an example that
rip off artists like him who wrongfully consume the trust of
the public and who make a police department work overtime in
order to expose a juvenile stunt.
Jussie Smollett put his hands and head into a beehive
when he went national with his ostensibly contrived story of
being assaulted by two men. He was even on Good Morning
America and was interviewed by Robin Roberts.
In that interview, Jussie, through crying tears, was
using bleeped profanity and vociferously protesting his
innocence and how disgusted he was that someone would even
remotely hint that he was at the core of his own "assault."
What is also a sad commentary on this alleged assault
is that people who had legal backgrounds including Senators
Kamala Harris and Cory Booker also went public with their
opinions in spite of the glaring facts that not all of the
factual evidence was in place.
What would motivate politicos and entertainers to make
knee jerk responses to a ongoing investigation? Was it
simply because they were caught up in the racial/emotion of
a Jussie Smollett crying on TV that he was a victim of a
cruel racist attack?
Was it that they wanted to "be out in front" showing
their constituency that they were "down" with Smollett and
thus partake of the fame of this Empire star?
Was it that they were trying too hard to identify with
the gay community (Jussie Smollett is open about his sexual
leanings) and thus incur their political favor that they
were first in line to give Smollett cover and comfort?
And who knows what the Empire television series
producers will do about the future casting of Jussie
Smollett? Will they write him out of the series?
Remember the recent issue regarding the Roseanne
television series in which THE main star of the comedy was
given the heave-ho due to her intemperate remarks.
How could the Empire producers do less to
Jussie Smollett in regards to his contrived lies and teary
denials of his involvement in his own assault?
I surmise that the Empire will strike back and
with a vengeance at Jussie Smollett since he ripped at the
heartstrings of so many fans and struck a long jagged dagger
into the confidences and trust of the Empire crew,
staff, co-workers and the producing studio.
I mean. How do you make a comeback when the national
media is demonstrating sympathies with Jussie Smollett but
then, in a flash of intensive police detective work, the
assault story...with gossamer wings... comes flailing to the
ground?
What struck me the most and what stuck with me the most
was the outrage that Jussie Smollett was able to generate
from a trusting public that he was a duo victim of race and
homophobic attacks but now he will be considered as a
pariah. May I suggest that Jussie needs psychiatric care.
It goes without saying and it holds true that the
ditty, "Oh, the web that we weave when our intent is to
deceive" is applicable here.
If I were to write a balloon caption over the head of
Robin Roberts when she was interviewing Jussie Smollett, it
would read the same as what she said to Omarosa Manigault
when Omarosa was being interviewed by an incredulous Robin
Roberts regarding her sudden exit from the White House: "BYE
FELISHA!
Contact Lafe Tolliver at
tolliver@juno.com
|
