Posted on 11/30/2021 7:19:47 AM PST by SeekAndFind
If you have been following the US mainstream media, you would be forgiven for not knowing that the Jussie Smollett trial opened just yesterday.
There has been scant coverage of the trial largely because the press had embarrassed themselves covering the story of the purported racist and homophobic attack on him in 2019. Since they aren’t too keen on learning lessons and certainly not eager to relive their humiliation, they just stay away from the story.
The case merits a quick revision owing to the rapidly evolving or perhaps devolving news cycle.
On January 29, 2019, African American actor Jussie Smollett who is gay claimed that two masked men wearing MAGA hats hurled racist and homophobic abuses at him. He claims that they proceeded to punch him, pour a chemical substance over him, put a rope around his neck and berate him with "this is MAGA country." He also claimed that he had received a hate mail consisting of a barrage of racist invectives.
The US mainstream media gleefully carried and amplified the story because it fits their narrative of far-right Trump supporters persecuting a gay man of color. Instances such as these explain why very few in the US trust their news media.
But Chicago is by no means ‘MAGA country’ and the entire narrative seemed exaggerated and apocryphal.
As a film critic would say, the characters didn’t seem real and their motives seemed implausible. The dialogues were overdone and the plot was lacking. The choice backdrop was added to lacked credibility,
Despite these obvious questions, anybody who questioned the veracity of the claimed occurrences was branded racist enablers and conspiracy theorists. Hollywood celebrities, top Democrats, and then-candidate Kamala Harris offered their support.
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Here’s a brief history of what ensued for those who don’t remember the staged racial incident:
Following a thorough investigation by Chicago’s Police, it was proved that Smollett had staged the entire attack and also had sent a racist letter to himself at the studio where the show he was appearing in was filmed.
To sum it up It was all an outrageous and disgraceful hoax.
Fox suspended him from the series Empire.
Smollett was indicted on 16 felony counts. He was charged with filing a false police report claiming he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack.
Then in a move that astounded everybody, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx dropped all charges against Smollett in exchange for Smollett doing community service and forfeiting his $10,000 bond.
It was alleged that Michelle Obama had a role to play in this travesty of justice.
Beyond this mockery of the law, the Smollet hoax also raised serious questions about the times and the society we inhabit where an affluent and successful individual thinks he can bolster his profile and get a salary hike if he claims to be a victim.
Smollett’s hoax proves that victimhood holds more weight than actual accomplishments. While accomplishment takes a great deal of time and effort, victimhood merely takes a well-worded claim.
How many hundreds of thousands of dollars in man hours were wasted on this charade?.......................
Why he deserves to be punished:
1) He committed crimes.
Looking at his Wiki - He hasn’t worked since 2018. He WAS making $65,000 per episode on the show Empire, but wanted more. This hoax was an attempt to boost his name and get more.
Killed that golden goose, big time. Have fun flipping burgers.
he was perfectly willing to let innocent people be punished for his crime, and he is a full blown racist to boot, put him away!
Drama Queens gotta drama...........................
ALSO he should be made to pay back every cent spent on this farce!......................
These hoaxes unjustifiably fuel hate and racial violence and should be more severely punished. Our society takes racism so seriously that casually throwing out accusations should be taken more seriously. Even calling someone a racist just because they disagree with you should be actionable as defamation, and shouldn’t be dependent on the political beliefs of those who are being defamed.
Is his defense that his two cohorts framed him?
This was an Obama cartel operation meant to support Harris’ campaign.
Yes Smollet should be punished, but not so he can be a deterrent...rather because he deserves it. If his punishment serves as a deterrent to others well and good, but that can never be the real reason for punishment, otherwise an innocent falsely prosecuted could serve as the example.
At this point I can’t fathom why Mr. Smollett continues to double-down on his story, rather than coming clean. It might be pride, embarrassment, anger, or a mix of all of the above. Continuing the charade only hurts him more and more.
Not to stir the pot too much....but if you bring this whole story up in the black community, I’d say that 90-percent don’t believe a single bit of Smollett’s story. In the rich affluent white community, it’s closer to 50-percent of them who believed the story for the first ten days, which says a lot.
I just don’t believe at 2 AM, in Chicago, on a typical winter night....you can find KKK/white-supremist guys hanging out.
Juicy Smollet needs to cough up every penny paid out in the investigation...every penny.
He was sowing more distrust and hatred between the races.
The entire thing was just absurd.
White guys in Chicago in the middle of the night wearing MAGA hats confronting a gay black man??? I never even met anyone who watched Empire and Dave Chappelle had it right - no Conservative knew who he was or even cared about him. And who in their right mind would be out in minus 20 degree weather at 2 am tracking down someone in CHICAGO???!!! And the fake noose that the police were like “....uh... do you want to take that off...?” when he was telling them about it and the fake bleach story- I mean, my GOD, that man could have gotten people killed over this racist BS.
Funny how he was close with Kamala Harris who had just happened to introduce legislation about lynching.... wonder if those phone records between them will ever be released.
“This hoax was an attempt to boost his name and get more.”
No.
It was part of the Harris campaign.
It was supposed to show her prescience and leadership in putting forth her anti-lynching bill.
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