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From Screen to Scorn: For Jussie Smollett, a Life of Arts and Activism Is Upended [NY Slimes]
New York Times ^ | Feb 23, 2019 | Jack Healy, Michael Cooper and Serge F. Kovaleski

Posted on 02/24/2019 1:04:03 PM PST by ETL

CHICAGO — Ever since he was a child actor growing up in a show-business family, Jussie Smollett’s life blended activism with the make-believe worlds of television and movies. ..."

He spoke of his mother’s closeness with the Black Panthers and prominent civil-rights leaders, and how she had encouraged Mr. Smollett and his brothers and sisters to create art and live out their beliefs. ..."

For Mr. Smollett, arts and activism were intertwined throughout his childhood.

His parents met while campaigning for civil rights in the Bay Area of California, and his mother had worked with the founders of the Black Panthers and prominent civil-rights leaders, according to a New York Times interview with Mr. Smollett in 2016.

Between child-acting gigs and press junkets that the six siblings did for their 1994 ABC sitcom, their mother, Janet Smollett, made sure the children played sports and read about figures like Malcolm X and Langston Hughes, she told The Los Angeles Times in 1994. (His family did not respond to phone or email messages.)

“I know their mother, Janet, has always taught them to stand up for themselves, and for what they believe,” Mr. Harris said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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To: HotHunt
This will not ruin his career, only enhance it among Trump-hating liberals.

He lost his job.

It would be right to say that what he did won't be held against him as much as it would be if his actions had been perceived as "right-wing" - he won't be a total pariah - but no way he comes out looking better from this for most people, even most Trump-hating liberals.

41 posted on 02/24/2019 2:25:40 PM PST by x
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To: a little elbow grease
What the lefty loons don't understand is that this kind of garbage is driving blacks, who have NEVER voted GOP and NEVER thought that they would,now joining the #WALKAWAY movement.

Blacks, who live where innocents are getting shot and/or murdered and who NEVER get this kind of treatment from the police, don't appreciate that 24, TWENTY-FOUR, detectives were put on this case which turned out to be nothing but one huge HOAX, while cases involving crimes against them and theirs languish.

And most blacks, in Chicago, are virulent homophobes.

42 posted on 02/24/2019 2:26:24 PM PST by nopardons
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To: ETL
"...blended activism with the make-believe worlds of television and movies..."

How does that make him any different from nearly every other Leftist in this country?

43 posted on 02/24/2019 2:30:04 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: trisham
Angela hasn’t aged well.

People who's core function is "hate whitey" never do. Look at Mad Maxine and Pelosi.

44 posted on 02/24/2019 2:31:53 PM PST by Boomer (We are one dem President away from America being destroyed into communism)
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To: ETL
"...The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us..."

He's Dead, Stokely. You scumbag.

45 posted on 02/24/2019 2:34:47 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: ETL

46 posted on 02/24/2019 2:35:14 PM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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To: Boomer

Absolutely.


47 posted on 02/24/2019 2:37:23 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: MAGAthon

btw BBC’s Mike Wooldridge also interviews ex-BLM , Kwame Rose.

Wikipedia: Kwame Rose
On April 29, 2015, Rose confronted Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera during the protests for Freddie Gray, asking him to leave Baltimore due to what Rose called one-sided coverage of the protests and the city while ignoring Baltimore’s poverty and social issues, how these issues affect citizens’ lives, or the community’s efforts to unite and clean up the city...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Rose

naturally Charlottesville


48 posted on 02/24/2019 2:38:05 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: nopardons

Thank you .... and very well said as usual by you, good lady.


49 posted on 02/24/2019 2:40:15 PM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: a little elbow grease
Thank you for your kind words; much appreciated.

I just write about what I know...facts. :-)

50 posted on 02/24/2019 2:44:17 PM PST by nopardons
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To: x
Never say never in this upside down world of liberal culture and politics.

This incident will only increase his bonafides with the Left.

I may be wrong. This may make him a pariah but I doubt it. He may do some jail time but I doubt very much, if any.

The Left is already making excuses for him and taking him under their wing. "Poor boy was off his meds, or was on drugs or was delirious with hate for Trump", whatever.

We'll see. I'm becoming more of a cynic the older I get.

51 posted on 02/24/2019 2:45:24 PM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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To: ETL

This country would have been much better off had Angela Davis, the Smolletts, Bobby Seale, Bill Ayres, Bernadine Dohrn, et al been locked up for life. They committed treason and were rewarded with university/political jobs to keep the cancer of Communism active in the body politic.


52 posted on 02/24/2019 2:49:07 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: rlmorel

ROFL


53 posted on 02/24/2019 2:50:24 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: HotHunt

“”The only way to have more boxes checked would be if he was a muslim and/or a woman.””

Hey - it’s not too late for that in today’s world!!


54 posted on 02/24/2019 3:44:04 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: HotHunt

I’m cynical myself, but these stories just further erode the little patience remaining in non-black populations. As whites fade from the scene, the replacements have no patience - and certainly no guilt - in dealing with blacks. The Koreans targeted by blacks in the LA riots, Michael Brown (Ferguson MO) pushing an Indian clerk around as he stole from him, these incidents warn the newcomers of the problems - and they know they themselves certainly aren’t to blame. If anything, they watch seats earned by their children in colleges get handed to non-learning tokens, and then the same occurs in their workplaces; they are done, and these hoaxes just push the last whites into that same acceptance that coexistence is a myth.


55 posted on 02/24/2019 4:06:35 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: JonPreston

The color which are at war with is RED.


56 posted on 02/24/2019 4:19:22 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

I think that’s Jussie’s friend side show Bob


57 posted on 02/24/2019 4:20:44 PM PST by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: kearnyirish2

Many white communists are using blacks to advance THEIR (Communist) agenda. Scumbags like Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, Obama supporter, Michael Klonksky, Sunsara Taylor, etc, etc.


58 posted on 02/24/2019 4:28:59 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

Yes, they tend to be a population easily led - though to their credit, they denied Hillary PA, WI, and MI!


59 posted on 02/24/2019 4:31:16 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: ETL

Which has nothing to do with gutless white folks I referenced.


60 posted on 02/24/2019 4:31:22 PM PST by JonPreston
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