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I woke up this morning going about my daily routine. I decided to look up some WhatsApp statuses and saw that the Oscar movie award was yesterday.
After a few seconds, I saw a screenshot saying Chris rock was slapped by will smith.
My first opinion on seeing this was that, it was probably scripted.
I headed over to youtube and searched for the videos and I was shocked at what I saw.
There was no acting in any of it.
So this is my take on it.
I feel comedians need to have boundaries when cracking jokes. A lot of the time people get insulted and pretend to be happy but deep within they are really sad and boiling.
In Nigeria, a lot of comedians do this a lot and most do not know when they cross the line. Some of them cross it so much and then it becomes an insult.
Jada Pinkett has been struggling with Alopecia for a while now and stuff that pertains to beauty or bodily looks are usually sensitive.
Chris talking about Jada’s alopecia was highly disrespectful and insensitive of him and I feel he was totally wrong and should actually apologize to Jada in public.
If you looked at Jada, you will probably see the pain in her eye after the joke. She was shocked.
My take on will smith’s action
Like Will Smith said yesterday “love will make you do crazy things”
In my opinion, Will should have handled it better. I know a lot of people will say things like he embarrassed you in public and so Chris should also be embarrassed in Public.
I feel he would have done a better job at putting Chris straight without having to raise his hands.
He was obviously going to win the award and so will have the stage to talk to Chris and make him understand how foolish and stupid he was for saying something so sensitive.
I feel he was wrong for physically assaulting Chris.
I think it will only be wise for them to talk it out and render apologies.
The funny part is how he got on stage and still didn’t apologize for hitting Chris.
In the words of Denzel,
Be careful in your highest points cos that’s when the devil works the most.
Well, I guess my 2 cents don’t count...
Thank you for reading.