The Big, Bad, Dangerous Black Man
The racist narrative behind the Jussie Smollett and Liam Neeson controversies.
6 min readFeb 13, 2019
(The Root originally published this essay, which I wrote in the aftermath of the recent Jussie Smollett and Liam Neeson controversies, on February 11, 2019.)
As the survivor of a violent crime, I can attest that the aftermath is, in some ways, the…
