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| Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Academy Awards |
Were you watching the Oscar telecast last night?
Did you see Will Smith slap the shit out of Chris Rock because Rock made a joke about Smith's wife's lack of hair?
For God's sake! What have we come too?
For me Will Smith has always been overrated.
Will Smith is no Sidney Poitier.
Later, when Smith received the Best Actor Oscar he offered somewhat of a strained "apology" to the Academy but none to the man he assaulted on stage.
Again, are there no consequences for violence committed so openly by a famous person?
The past month I've been sick to my stomach watching the destruction and killing of a peaceful people, the Ukrainians by the sub-human soulless Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
I usually watch the news, mostly as background to me doing something else like cooking or on my computer. Now I mostly turn off the TV when pictures of the destruction and killing of innocent Ukrainians appear on TV.
The Ukrainian leader Zelensky begs for help from the allied NATA countries but receives little but lots of platitudes.
Biden stumbles his way through another read speech yet doesn't directly help Zelensky and his country stop the incessant bombing that is destroying his country.
I realize I am very fortunate to live in a country that is surrounded by two large oceans that protect us from sub-human butchers like Putin but still, it makes me sick to my stomach to see the monster Putin get away with his aggression on his peaceful neighbor. Why? Just so he can add Ukraine to his portfolio of countries that he controls?
I was born in 1941, a month before our country was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor. All my life I've lived under the threat of war as have all of us.
In grade school we were told to get under our desks if atom bombs were dropped by Russia on the United States. Even then I knew getting under my desk wasn't going to save me from that hot skin peeling atom bomb blast.
During my adult years I just missed Viet Nam. Pure luck. Lot of guys and gals my age weren't so lucky.
Then there was Afghanistan and Iraq. Again, many of our fellow young Americans died and injured.
So Will Smith walking on the stage at the Academy Awards and slapping Chris Rock for a joke? Not a good move Will Smith.
Apologize to Chris Rock and the public for your tasteless display of violence Will Smith. You're not cool.