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Radical professor says Will Smith’s slap the product of ‘a 400-year commitment to black erasure’

April 3, 2022 | | Print Article

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The taxpayer-funded Public Broadcasting System provided a platform to attribute the Oscar slap by world-famous and “triggered” actor Will Smith as a manifestation of a four-centuries-long “black erasure” and “marginalization.”

In an appearance on the PBS News Hour, professor, film critic, and author Eisa Nefertari Ulen explained what was really behind the Smith-Chris Rock confrontation when the former stormed the stage. Anchor Stephanie Sy teed up the segment by noting that Ulen has authored an essay for The Hollywood Reporter in which she addressed the controversy in the deeper context of “black pain.”

“Why do you think it’s important to see this moment through that lens?” Sy asked about the incident between two wealthy entertainment celebrities, one of which is a movie industry superstar and the other is a very popular comedian.

Will Smith, who has an estimated net worth of $350 million, even won a Best Actor Oscar as Best Actor during the same ceremony.

“I think that any time we witness violence, we need to understand that from a place where we recognize the emotional and psychological state that’s driving this physical response to a trigger,” Ulen replied. “And Will Smith was definitely triggered that night. But I think, in the broader context of American society, we need to understand what was happening there. It’s really rooted and steeped in a 400-year commitment to black erasure, black marginalization, black silencing, and the stereotyping of black people.

“All of that was present in a visceral felt and real way in the infamous slap,” she added.

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In the aforementioned Hollywood Reporter piece (which you can review and draw own conclusions), Ulen wrote in part, that “Smith is not exonerated of personal responsibility. He has to own his inappropriate response, his foolishness. Before sanctioning him in ways that concretize the damage he’s already done to his own career, the Academy must also self-reflect and own the well-documented norms, policies and images that have damaged Black people, especially those who work in the business…”

She also opined that “We cannot excuse Will or Chris for their behavior on Oscar night. Chris’ joke was a verbal assault, a tearing down of Black women that was triggering and cruel. Will’s slap was a physical assault, a tearing down of another Black man to reclaim his heteronormative power in that very public realm…Rather than punitively discipline Will Smith for his violence, the Academy and the Hollywood machine should take this opportunity to reflect and recognize their part in fomenting it.”

A Forbes contributor who writes for the news outlet under the diversity, equity, and inclusion banner perhaps similarly claimed that the attack was result of white supremacy that somehow permeates the very liberal, if not super progressive, entertainment sector.

Although it’s been seen by some as a beef between two dudes about a hairstyle, just about everyone seems to have an opinion about what happened at the Academy Awards last Sunday evening, presumably including iconic (and himself often controversial) actor Mel Gibson, whose interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters was abruptly short-circuited by his publicist before he could weigh in.

Breitbart’s John Nolte has rejected any identity politics ramifications and instead has argued that the altercation was the result of a dynamic in Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s marriage.

“It was an uncontrolled, rage-filled overreaction on Smith’s part that had nothing to do with Rock and everything to do with a cuckold’s need to reassert his manhood in front of a world that’s either laughing at him or pitying him,” Nolte claimed.

That aside, many Twitter users aren’t giving the professor’s thesis high marks. Here is a sampling:

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27 thoughts on “Radical professor says Will Smith’s slap the product of ‘a 400-year commitment to black erasure’”

    1. I never met a stupid colonizer who didn’t confuse the word “bigotry” with “racism”. When are you idiot pale apes ever going to learn the difference. I’m not going to explain that shit to your uneducated as but, until you learn the difference… you’ll always look like dumb. Now go iron your Klan suit you stupid racist bigot!

  2. The sun came up in the east today! It must be due to white supremacy!!!!!! We need to stamp that out so one day we will wake up to the sun rising in the west!

    Let’s go Brandon and take NPR with you. What a waste of our tax dollars. Just another public dole that needs to be eliminated.

    1. Sigh, the fact that idiotic whites get to crack jokes about white supremacy proves it’s real dummy! You’re only joking about it and pretending it doesn’t exist because you’re a white supremacist and it doesn’t affect you. That’s a simple equation moron! If it doesn’t affect you… you don’t think it exists. Duh dumb ass! I can’t wait until all of your disgusting recessive genes are removed from the human gene pool.

  3. Blacks were “erasing”, murdering, raping and taking each other as slaves LONG before any NON Black ever set foot in Africa !

    1. Heck, just look at Chicago, Baltimore, Philly, Boston, NY or LA. If there’s one thing the blacks are good at, besides basketball, its killing each other, just because!

      1. Hey, racist colonizing piece of shit, look up Chattanooga, Boston, Omaha, and you’ll see white crackers like yourself killing each other every day dummy! And they kill each other just to get more oxy. Are you ignorant pieces of shit actually suggesting that EVERY MURDER is done by Black people in Chicago? Whites don’t live in Chicago? Whites don’t have GANGS in Chicago? Really white devil? That’s what you think? You never heard of Al Capone? The Mob? White “people” are the dumbest people on Earth.

  4. Noooooo…Will Smith’s slap is the product of a mentally imbalanced, pu**y whipped, entitled, black and elite privileged, coward.

    1. That was absolutely brilliant !!!!
      I have been getting ” censored ” a bit here , so hopefully my response makes it through…

    2. Since they claim to have an open marriage, and I suppose he doesn’t mind her sleeping with other men, I have to wonder why “hair” matters so much to him. BTW. Cerros–very well said!

      1. It mattered to her dummy! What you can’t imagine is that a Black man loves his Black woman and is willing to slap a punk like you for her if need be. Whites KILL Black men just for LOOKING at white women. So, if you don’t like it whitey, we learned it from watching you! You have no one to blame but yourself.

  5. BULLCHIT – IT WAS BLACK-VIOLENCE ON ANOTHER BLACK MAN ! HAPPENS EVERYDAY IN EVERY DEM RUN CITY IN OUR COUNTRY !! QUIT TRYING TO BLAME WHITEY FOR YOUR LACK OF CONTROL BLACKS !! F.J.B.

  6. Did this idiot not see Smith laugh at the joke? He was not immeiately angered. It was not until he though his wife was angry at him for not responding that he acted. whenshe rolled her eyes it was becasue he laughed! No panckes for him sunday morning. What do do! Guess I better slap my buddy Chris for show. No problem. I’m will Smith!

  7. Typical angry leftist loon. Everybody and every thing is to blame EXCEPT the person actually committing the act. And of course she can’t pass up the chance to drag “racism” into an exchange between two uber-wealthy celebrities’ who both happen to be Black.

    1. Whites are NEVER to blame? Nothing is their fault? All the genocide, slavery, land theft, 100 years of Jim Crow laws! Writing laws that forced Black people to live in certain neighborhoods, writing laws that prevented Black people and white trash to play checkers. Writing laws saying Black people can’t own land or guns, writing laws that say Black people can’t get jobs or married… etc. None of that is on whitey huh? Ok Mr. Lack Of Responsibility! The irony of not taking ANY responsibility for NOT correcting ANY of the past while claiming Black people don’t take responsibility! You should be a comedian and take this racist act on the road!

  8. What was really behind the Smith assault? It wasn’t “black erasure, black marginalization, black silencing, and the stereotyping of black people” (from the article). It was the result of the maliciousness, callousness, spite, and stupidity of one person – Will Smith. As Slo Joe would say “Come on man”. Smith is worth $350 million. Where is the prejudice in that number? It ain’t nowhere (another Slo Joe moment – sorry).

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  10. First: The fact that Eisa Nefertari Ulen is a “professor” tells you everything one needs to know about modern education. Second: The United States is only 246 years old so 400 year garbage doesn’t work. Third: Blacks have been free in many 13 Colonies and were ambassadors since 1860. Blacks have been free in the United States for more than half its founding. Slavery was 7,000 years old afflicting every race and creed. Blacks enslaved Spain for 800 years and they weren’t nice. Blaming the United States? Really? With a straight face? Only a Communist with alternative motives would make such disingenuous conclusion. Fourth: America needs anti-communist legislation to clean out our lands from this wretched filth. Fifth: Africa, China, India lead the world in slavery 2022.
    GET THE MEMO!

  11. These 2 PBS idiots exemplify a real problem that black Americans face: refusal to take responsibility for their behavior, as, its almost always someone elses fault when a black American behaves badly.

  13. 75% of black babies are born out of wedlock. Many, live with absent fathers. Regrettably, Blacks disproportionately lead in most of society’s negatives. Black leaders & Fake News people, are too busy blaming white supremacy & avoiding self accountability.

  14. Good lord these professors must spend hours up at night trying to find convoluted ways to claim any form of racism in everything. Hmm an innocent joke, which Smith laughed at until his toxic wife got mad, then he jumped up to be a rude obnoxious man, and slapped said comedian. Yea sure black erasure, doesn’t exist. This woman is insane and totally out of touch.

  17. Simply incredible yet insane logic on display!! “400 years of BLACK erasure”??? It was a BLACK man who SLAPPED a BLACK man because the BLACK man told a HARMLESS joke about the BLACK man’s BLACK wife! AND then the BLACK man who SLAPPED the BLACK man won a one time highly regarded AWARD given to the BEST ACTOR of ANY COLOR for his portrayal of a BLACK man who guided his two BLACK daughters to the highest level of their sports! AND to top it all off all this happened in an industry and sport that have previously been WHITE dominated! I have a pretty good High School Education and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration plus over 35 years in Management so I have a fairly decent idea about the term “ERASURE”! NONE of what I’ve seen in the last 50 years could be construed or even MISINTERPRETED as being ERASURE of blacks!! QUITE THE CONTRARY!!!

    1. Exactly. 3 actors who have achieved fame and wealth but are still being held back by the white man? Exactly how have I prevented them from having better lives? I would truly like to know.

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