Here is something that everyone needs to understand and should agree with.
You can be on Team Will or Team Rock. You can believe Rock crossed the line with the joke, and Will was justified in slapping him. You can also feel strongly that the joke wasn’t that bad and violence is never the answer.
What we all should agree on is Will’s decision to take that action in the manner that he did only made things worse for himself and every other person who won an OSCAR that night. Questlove, another black man, had to accept his OSCAR after the SLAP. This was Smith’s crowning achievement as an actor, finally winning an OSCAR, and no one is talking about that. If anything, they are talking about if the OSCAR should be taken from him.
In the heat of the moment, we never know how we will react to things, but even if Smith thinks he was justified does it make him feel good that someone like Questlove and other got pushed to the back burner because of his actions? Does it make him feel good any time his OSCAR win is mentioned? Will the slap be as well? Is that what Jada wanted? If so, he needs to reevaluate once again if this marriage is healthy for him or toxic.
Newly surfaced video seemingly shows Jada Pinkett Smith laughing after her husband, Will Smith, slapped comedian Chris Rock at Sunday’s Academy Awards.
In the footage, Smith can be seen storming off the stage and sitting back in his seat after assaulting Rock.
“Wow, Will Smith just smacked the s–t out of me!” Rock then remarks, with the video appearing to show Pinkett Smith’s head tilting forward with laughter.
Smith walked on stage and slapped Rock after objecting to a joke the comedian made about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head.
Rock compared the actress — who suffers from alopecia and shaved her head last summer — to Demi Moore’s bald character from the film “G.I. Jane.” Pinkett Smith was seen in the audience looking unimpressed by the quip.
Once again, remember when you are speaking about this, think about the other people it affected, and then decide if it was worth it to do it publicly or would have been better handled privately. Even if you think Will Smith had a right to be upset and ready to throw hands, was it really worth it in the long run?
I think you know the answer to that.
Flip the page for a new angle of Jada laughing at the slap.