We're All Still Pretty Pissed Off
The Slap reminds us that the pandemic changed our relationship with violence. We're still guessing at why.
My first instinct was to ignore Will Smith and Chris Rock. Honest.
We are awash in hot takes about the privileges of wealth and celebrity, Black women as rhetorical punching bags, Black men as literal punching bags, cancel culture and respectability politics. References to the Boondocks and Charlie Murphy stories abound.
Famous multimillionaires do not ha…
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