This country has no idea how to fit its unassimilated ethnic minorities into the larger scheme of things; there are only so many slots in the entertainment world for them, and apparently “Jussie” thought he was losing one of them.
Adding mental illness on top of that is just a recipe for disaster...
Smollet was a picture-perfect, fighting mad victim as he spoke to an unblinking Robin Roberts on ABC's GMA.
Smollett reinvented himself as an especially fierce kind of victim...a cool hero. I fought the f**k back, he told fellow-believer Roberts.
The self-important Smollett was weaned at the breast of radical black activism.
His mother (Maxine Waters says she's her friend) associated with the Black Panthers and Black radical Angela Davis.
A born self-promoter, Smollett has identified proudly with the radical black activist tradition.