That’s the issue I have with the whole thing, the way will dealt with the issue in the public eye was definitely wrong, but to hear people crucify a guy that has had a basically blemish free career. Like he murdered, raped or molested a child is crazy to me. Here in New York there releasing inmates back on to the street for worse shit. IMO it seems some people want to make it another witch hunt to make a young wealthy black loose it all. Him and Chris seemed to have been friends early on and I don’t think Chris wants to see the destruction of a Black man he was friends with.
I think the real issue is that he escalated the situation beyond what many would say was reasonable.
And to your point, yes this is mild in a sense of overall violence. However, the stage it took place, the audience, the parties involved all contributed to this being far more high profile than your average crime. Whether he loses it all is out of his hands. That's the consequences he signed up for. He gave those that love to see Black men fall from grace & torn down enough ammunition to destroy everything he built over the 30+ years.
Chris Rock can't save him because his forgiveness of the situation only makes Chris out to be the bigger man. And the court of public opinion has already judged Will as a violent person with a crumbling facade of a marriage.
I agree, his reputation has been stained, but many people are empathizing with him. You just so happen to be in the group that want to see Will suffer some type of consequence.
Will should be held accountable, but the public opinion is looking towards Jada as the root cause of Will’s reaction.
Newton's first law states that if a body is at rest or moving at a constant speed in a straight line, it will remain at rest or keep moving in a straight line at constant speed unless it is acted upon by a force.
Newton's third law states that when two bodies interact, they apply forces to one another that are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. The third law is also known as the law of action and reaction.
It's one of my favorite physics laws.
Will did what he did and nobody forced him to do it. I have no issue with that. But on the other hand, we know there are some other things happening.
But, we always look at the things that lead to the moment. And it sometimes excuses the crime (not in the case of Will), but we look and try to understand how he even got to that point.
And many sympathize with Will and feel bad for Chris at the same time.
Newton's first law states that if a body is at rest or moving at a constant speed in a straight line, it will remain at rest or keep moving in a straight line at constant speed unless it is acted upon by a force.
Newton's third law states that when two bodies interact, they apply forces to one another that are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. The third law is also known as the law of action and reaction.
It's one of my favorite physics laws.
Will did what he did and nobody forced him to do it. I have no issue with that. But on the other hand, we know there are some other things happening.
But, we always look at the things that lead to the moment. And it sometimes excuses the crime (not in the case of Will), but we look and try to understand how he even got to that point.
And many sympathize with Will and feel bad for Chris at the same time.
Newton's first law states that if a body is at rest or moving at a constant speed in a straight line, it will remain at rest or keep moving in a straight line at constant speed unless it is acted upon by a force.
Newton's third law states that when two bodies interact, they apply forces to one another that are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. The third law is also known as the law of action and reaction.
It's one of my favorite physics laws.
Will did what he did and nobody forced him to do it. I have no issue with that. But on the other hand, we know there are some other things happening.
But, we always look at the things that lead to the moment. And it sometimes excuses the crime (not in the case of Will), but we look and try to understand how he even got to that point.
And many sympathize with Will and feel bad for Chris at the same time.
I've had to uphold my woman's honor in public a very few times in my life. I'm not a hotheaded dude though and was taught (by those who taught me how to fight) and have lived by the philosophy that violence is only to be used as a last resort, which means having an arsenal of other options to defuse potential situations.
I got a hotheaded friend who hasn't lived by that philosophy. He jumped on a few guys before for something or other involving his lady at whatever time. One time his ass woke up on the ground in an alley. He doesn't know I know about that lol.
I've witnessed other situations where dudes were with their women and decided to fight someone talking shit, got fucked up bad and their woman was left defenseless.
In spite of all that, I couldn't see myself in the moment, letting Will make it back to his seat after walking up and slapping me in the face. Perhaps Chris is a better man than me in that regard. I admire his restraint, and his ability to keep a clear head in the moment. I also admire how he handled things afterwards.
That is why I mentioned the stuff about if these same people even in "NORMAL" situations...
Reacted like they EXPECT these 3 folk too?
If you actually been slapped in public?
You understand.
If your husband jumped up to hit someone publicly?
You understand
This entire situation is absurd
But any reasonable person UNDERSTANDS everything that lead up to it
without justifying the violence.
Everyone wants to stand in judgment.
Every one is using this to further their OWN PERSONAL agenda
Every one is trying to lay the groundwork to defend and protect their OWN bullsh*t actions.
This stopped being about Chris will and Jada a LONG TIME AGO.
Cause plain and simple take this to its base level let me go in....
The family and friends gather at their first event since lock down
A wedding
And Chris grabs the mic to say some words
He wants to be funny no one expected him too but hey it's a wedding...
He sees his cousin Will and his crazy wife
Been a minute
He notices she is bald
Was she sick? Chris can't remember? Maybe? Ah f*ck it.
He makes a bald head joke.
No one laughs but Will does! My man!
whelp let's move on
Wait what? Why Will getting up?
Oh OK he gonna make this funny. Will is always mr nice guy he gonna help me out on the bit it's gonna be epic!
He look really mad now too
Ummm ok what we doing?
Oh shit!
It was a joke!!! All these people looking at me. Wait was Jada sick? Wtf? What I do? Why is everyone just..?
Ok hey hey everyone Will just slapped the shit outta me!
KEEP MY WIFE F*CKING NAME OUT YA MOUTH!
Um ok good I'm gone.
What happened. I ruined the wedding. It was just a joke. Will know me! C'mon you didn't have to hit me bro. I'm sorry
It was just a damn joke. Wtf WILL!!??? I didn't mean nothing.
Why everyone hugging WILL?!?!
hold on is Jada crying? Will crying? Wait does Jada have cancer something?
Wait what...don't kick Will out.
No one asked me I didn't ask either
I don't know I don't care.
That is why I mentioned the stuff about if these same people even in "NORMAL" situations...
Reacted like they EXPECT these 3 folk too?
If you actually been slapped in public?
You understand.
If your husband jumped up to hit someone publicly?
You understand
This entire situation is absurd
But any reasonable person UNDERSTANDS everything that lead up to it
without justifying the violence.
Everyone wants to stand in judgment.
Every one is using this to further their OWN PERSONAL agenda
Every one is trying to lay the groundwork to defend and protect their OWN bullsh*t actions.
This stopped being about Chris will and Jada a LONG TIME AGO.
Cause plain and simple take this to its base level let me go in....
The family and friends gather at their first event since lock down
A wedding
And Chris grabs the mic to say some words
He wants to be funny no one expected him too but hey it's a wedding...
He sees his cousin Will and his crazy wife
Been a minute
He notices she is bald
Was she sick? Chris can't remember? Maybe? Ah f*ck it.
He makes a bald head joke.
No one laughs but Will does! My man!
whelp let's move on
Wait what? Why Will getting up?
Oh OK he gonna make this funny. Will is always mr nice guy he gonna help me out on the bit it's gonna be epic!
He look really mad now too
Ummm ok what we doing?
Oh shit!
It was a joke!!! All these people looking at me. Wait was Jada sick? Wtf? What I do? Why is everyone just..?
Ok hey hey everyone Will just slapped the shit outta me!
KEEP MY WIFE F*CKING NAME OUT YA MOUTH!
Um ok good I'm gone.
What happened. I ruined the wedding. It was just a joke. Will know me! C'mon you didn't have to hit me bro. I'm sorry
It was just a damn joke. Wtf WILL!!??? I didn't mean nothing.
Why everyone hugging WILL?!?!
hold on is Jada crying? Will crying? Wait does Jada have cancer something?
Wait what...don't kick Will out.
No one asked me I didn't ask either
I don't know I don't care.
I've had to uphold my woman's honor in public a very few times in my life. I'm not a hotheaded dude though and was taught (by those who taught me how to fight) and have lived by the philosophy that violence is only to be used as a last resort, which means having an arsenal of other options to defuse potential situations.
I got a hotheaded friend who hasn't lived by that philosophy. He jumped on a few guys before for something or other involving his lady at whatever time. One time his ass woke up on the ground in an alley. He doesn't know I know about that lol.
I've witnessed other situations where dudes were with their women and decided to fight someone talking shit, got fucked up bad and their woman was left defenseless.
In spite of all that, I couldn't see myself in the moment, letting Will make it back to his seat after walking up and slapping me in the face. Perhaps Chris is a better man than me in that regard. I admire his restraint, and his ability to keep a clear head in the moment. I also admire how he handled things afterwards.
I've had to uphold my woman's honor in public a very few times in my life. I'm not a hotheaded dude though and was taught (by those who taught me how to fight) and have lived by the philosophy that violence is only to be used as a last resort, which means having an arsenal of other options to defuse potential situations.
I got a hotheaded friend who hasn't lived by that philosophy. He jumped on a few guys before for something or other involving his lady at whatever time. One time his ass woke up on the ground in an alley. He doesn't know I know about that lol.
I've witnessed other situations where dudes were with their women and decided to fight someone talking shit, got fucked up bad and their woman was left defenseless.
In spite of all that, I couldn't see myself in the moment, letting Will make it back to his seat after walking up and slapping me in the face. Perhaps Chris is a better man than me in that regard. I admire his restraint, and his ability to keep a clear head in the moment. I also admire how he handled things afterwards.
I fought my friend in elementary school and we were cool by EOD.
I dont know how yall can fight your friends especially as an adult. Reeks of underlying issues like how women fight each other when one is envious of the other.
I'm sorry friend or no friend if it was me( Lord help anybody who think they could slap me and get away with it) I would have tax those pockets. Will has about $300 million that slap would cost him about $50 million and that's because of our friendship.
Homie by that logic then the transgender woman (born a dude) that is sitting three tables over can get up and slap Chappelle now. Just cause YOU think he is a comedic genius "she" thinks he is a bully.
No there aren't repercussions to everything. Will hasn't had to spend a night in jail. Hell for assaulting a man with billions of witnesses, he got to enjoy his evening. Partied afterwards, took pictures with family and friends. I WOULD HOPE he got to fcuk his wife, but knowing him and Jada he got to watch her rub one out to the ghost of Tupac. He got to sleep in his bed that night.
If a comedian is going hard on you and it affects you in some kind of way, then leave and that should be a signal to the comedian that they have had enough, not continue with a barrage of more jokes. If I go to a Joe Budden concert I can't get on stage and slap him cause of all the cussing in his music. I didn't go to a concert to be cussed at all night (as my pops would say) Joe would be like then why did you buy a ticket? Why did you come to MY concert if you didn't like the language that I used? My art isn't going to suffer cause you don't like foul language.
We all live in a society, FCUK no it is not perfect. But we can't go around putting paws on each other over hurt feelings. The impact if Will would have gone backstage talked to Chris about it, gave him a chance to apologize and realized that maybe a line was crossed. Everybody seems to have had a working relationship in the past, so they could have given Chris two minutes to come back out later and apologized directly to Jada. EVERYBODY looks great, Will and Chris are seen as a standup dudes, the world finds out that Jada has alopecia instead of the hundred that listened to her show so she gets the attention that she whores for and the ghost of Tupac isn't so relevant in that family.
But you're missing my greater point...if that tranny did that that's the repercussion of dave constantly going at them...thats a chance he takes. Again I'm not saying it's right just that it is what is..
Again, Will is not Arnold. Will needs the support of powerful white men to exist as a powerful movie star. He has damaged himself in that circle. As I said, he will be working with Tyler Perry from now on. He knew how to sizzle and snap his fingers in the fresh prince and he will be a good side kick for Madea.
Thank you. Some of y'all don't seem to understand how Hollywood works. Whether you believe Will was in the right or not, he is now considered toxic by the corporate suites who matter. He can kiss his 8 figure paydays goodbye. When keeping it real goes very wrong.
LOL,That will not work for Will Smith. He’s not 50 Cents. His appeal is being a cross over super star but he has tainted himself. He will never be called for a mega role anymore. He’s now going to be in Soul Plane and Madea movies.
BIG FACTS to both of yall. After this incident, his spot in high profile films like summer action blockbusters or prestigious late fall/early winter oscar bait dramas is over. He gon have to fall back and do lower profile projects like Hitch and Focus. Or he can go the independent film route and do A24 movies or something. Man is about to go from commanding a salary of $25 million a film to potentially doing projects where he would make 300K-800k at most (since indie films have significantly lower budgets and its more about the art with them)
And as for that I Am Legend sequel, I GAURENTEE that Will is gon have more of a background role and MBJ is gonna be the actual star of the film, and I felt that BEFORE this incident. Shit for all we know Will might leave the project completely and have MBJ the only star in it. Will allegedly was trying to get a Marvel spot in an upcoming project but that shit DEAD now.
is there a difference? I'll give you a example...you go to a comedy club to see chappelle work out some material...your there for him. theres a stand up whose on first and you don't know this person..they go thru their bits and and during it he singles you out about some flaw or issue he sees just randomly...everyone is laffing but you becuz you came out to see chappelle who doesn't do that....you paid to be entertained by a genius comic not some nobody whose talking shit about you on a microphone.
There is no difference it's wrong to put your hands on people on stage doing a job. You said he's a stand up comedian.......THIS IS HIS JOB....he's not a nobody he's a entertainer doing his job that I paid money to see. I don't take myself that seriously I would laugh it off because he's a comedian. The comic is not walking up to me like he wanna do something or no shit like that. Again I just can't comprehend as a man being that sensitive
The point is theres other types of stand up comedy not just comics who like busting on people just because. Again its a dicey thing to do considering a comic doesn't know what a random persons been thru and whats going on in their life. I'm pretty sure at this point Will didn't know what he would do until he actually did it.
I'm not saying comics can't do it...and I'm not saying someone jumping up on stage and bitch slappin them is condoned...I'm saying there repercussions for EVERYTHING. You know this.
I agree but all this doesn't matter because that was Chris Rock, he gave us the term cracka ass cracka and hosted the Oscars twice. You have no right to put your hands on someone on a award show on live television. Will Smith's repercussions need to be so harsh that no one will ever be able to afford going on stage and slapping a black man on a live international stage....Chris Rock should be a billionaire off this.
I just want people trying to compare that joke to an attack on black hair to stop. They are not related. Stop saying it’s an attack on black women it’s not.
Will Smith recently retired from the academy for his offense of slapping comedian Chris Rock. Akademiks reviews a letter by Tupac Shakur read by Jada Pinkett-Smith on his 50th birthday
lmbao Ak was killing me talking about how the bitch posted a birthday message at midnight for Tupac birthday and ain’t post shit on Will birthday. Please we gotta save Will, this man is broken. I knew it was bad but not this bad.
come on fam; awful comparison
