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.
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.
The scandal also caused the end of EMPIRE-—the show he was fired from.