It’s all so weird.
He needed to be oppressed so badly to justify his identity as a doubly oppressed person, that he manufactured his own oppression since there was none visible.
As one FR pundit posted: "The demand for racism and bigotry far exceeds the supply;
Lotsa jerks like Smollett are desperate to ride the "victimhood" gravy train.
My favorite comment about this: “The left’s desire for racist hate crimes has outstripped the country’s ability to provide them.