I’m one of the others: concerned less about an actor’s indiscretion than the systemic violence ignored every day because the victims are Black, female, or God-forbid, a combination of the two. Jane-even though Pinkett Smith has been quite vocal about her struggle with alopecia, an autoimmune disorder that causes hair loss. He compared Smith’s wife, actress Jada Pinkett Smith, to the bald star of the 1997 action film G.I. To others, Smith’s action-though indefensible-was not the most harmful occurrence that night, considering the tasteless joke Rock delivered as a presenter. To some, violence is violence, whether enacted by the Hollywood elite or a student on the schoolyard, and Smith deserves to be punished in some form. There certainly hasn’t been a shortage of opinions in the days following now Academy Award-winning actor Will Smith’s decision to smack comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars ceremony on Sunday. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith attend the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on Main Hollywood.
