The truth does not run, it walks.
It's rarely known in an instant, or in 140 characters. Truth needs time to emerge, and patience from all of us to let that happen. The outrageous case of Jussie Smollett is just the latest proof of something we humans know well but keep forgetting.
Smollett, a black and openly gay actor on the TV show "Empire," reported that he was the victim of an ugly hate crime three weeks ago. Now Chicago police say he made it up. They charged him Thursday with disorderly conduct for falsely describing an attack by two men who yelled racist and homophobic slurs and tied a rope around his neck. Police say he paid the men to stage the attack, to draw attention to himself because he wasn't happy about his salary on the hit series.
