Will Smith slapping Chris Rock after he made a joke at the expense of his wife Jada Pinkett Smith has been the biggest talking point of this year’s Oscar’s
(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)Black women were the real losers from Will Smith’s bout of toxic masculinity last night, denied their rightful place in the spotlight that they’d worked years to attain. The focus should have been on them and their achievements, now it’s on a man who couldn’t control his emotions.
As black women, we have to work even harder than black men to be taken seriously, always keeping our emotions in check to avoid the label of “angry black woman”. Think how Jada Pinkett Smith would have been crucified and cancelled had she stormed the stage. He, however, gets to slap, sob on stage and still sip champagne at after parties.
