Are You Defending Will Smith Because He Was Right or Because He’s Not White?
On how Slap-gate at the 2022 Oscars is dividing Black folks.
6 min readMar 30, 2022
“We don’t know all the details of what happened, but we don’t condone anyone hitting anyone else unless it’s in self-defense.” — Richard Williams, to NBC News, via his son Chavoita LeSane.