The right practically orgasmed over Morgan Freeman's advice, but they didn't realise it applies to them too.

Morgan Freeman's solution has been made outdated by agitators.

It’s a vast exaggeration to say right wingers think it’s “woke” whenever there’s a black person in a movie. African-American actors like Freeman, Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, and many others are beloved across the political spectrum and wouldn’t be successful without the huge support of conservative moviegoers. The 9-figure U.S. receipts from Denzel Washington’s Equalizer are not exclusively derived from people choosing (D) at the ballot box. But I don’t think it’s unreasonable when those same fans roll their eyes a little at Hollywood passing that role to an obese gay woman who cannot credibly perform the action / fight scenes. I agree the effort by anyone to connect the Will Smith assault with race is preposterous. I also think your overall take is reasonable and I believe that Americans, by and large, think the same as you.

The Will Smith incident had nothing to do with race, it had everything to do with his wife having a pack of hot dogs in her mouth.

This is very true.

I don't entirely agree with Freeman that we need to stop talking about race, but if racists stopped being racists, then, yes, we all could and probably should stop talking about it. Until then, however, we have to talk about racism, just like we have to talk about *any* existing problem, like cancer, global warming and poverty.

> The Will Smith incident is the perfect example. It has nothing to do with race

I think it has a lot to do with race. Will Smith would have have slapped Ricky Gervais in the face like that, and if he had the audience would not have accepted it so easily ... I suspect.

I could go on about this but I won't because some comments will be twisted into being racist themselves. It was just a nasty thing done to an innocent person by a nasty person who should not have the respect or money of the public, and he never will have a penny of mine.