Immediately after史密斯将被拍打克里斯摇滚during the Oscars ceremony on Sunday, March 27, social media pundits rightly predicted that hot takes would flood in.
在湾区，喜剧演员W. Kamau Bellcaptured the mood with characteristic pith and the perfect GIF.
Every Monday morning news show, every Black radio station producer, every thinkpiece writer, every Black content maker, every NYT op-Ed writer, every morning zoo crew, everybody with a Substack right now…pic.twitter.com/cdhsb9owxn.
— W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell)March 28, 2022
The unscripted slap followed a joke Rock made about the shaved head of Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who, as has been widely reported, suffers from alopecia, which disproportionately affects Black women.
该事件挑起了一系列来自黑湾区艺术家，艺术领导，名人和评论者的回应。有些人问它为奥斯卡本身意味着什么，而其他人则以毒性阳刚地中的表达为例。还有其他人在反弹的反对中，担心它将如何发挥尊重政治，断言白色至上的文化使用礼貌规范来进一步压迫黑人。
Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry, among the executive producers of the short documentary“The Queen of Basketball,”which won an Oscar that night, and San Francisco Arts Commission Director of Cultural AffairsRalph Remingtonwere some of those who expressed concern that the slap would taint what should have been a career high for Smith, who, after more than three decades as a Hollywood star, won his first Academy Award for his performance in“King Richard.”
Like everybody..I’m still in shock about the whole thing- but in all the unnecessary drama, at least we got the line of the night from Denzel…”In your highest moments, be careful, that’s when the devil comes for you!”
— Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30)March 28, 2022
West Philly takes its second Oscar of the evening. However it's tainted by his physical onstage assault of Chris Rock. Such a shame.＃奥卡斯pic.twitter.com/pa2xis2emd.
— Ralph Remington (@RALPHREMINGTON)March 28, 2022
For Oakland playwright, poet, novelist and activistJewelle Gomez，该事件融入了漫长而可怕的毒性男性气质传统 - 特别是一种毒性的阳刚地，即使它旨在保护他们的表达，责备妇女的表达。
Indeed, during Smith’s acceptance speech he said, “Love makes you do crazy things,” a cliche that did not sit well with many viewers.
Michael D. Tubbs, the former mayor of Stockton, noted that Smith’s celebrity means that many viewers, especially younger ones, will probably interpret the actor’s behavior as worthy of emulation.
I wish I could sue＃威尔史密斯为有毒的男子气概打孔和蹩脚的创伤story of taking care of his women & the crying!pic.twitter.com/ZRFkDylAbZ
— Jewelle Gomez (@VampyreVamp)March 28, 2022
The ability to entertain doesn't make someone a role model or a leader. We'd do better if we would remind ourselves that. Model yourselves after behavior not talent.
- Michael Tubbs（@michaeldtubbs）March 28, 2022
对于许多观察者来说，扣篮和被打击的事实是黑人的意思，这意味着对他们的人口统计可能有可怕的影响。
Bell predicted, humorously, that the pearl-clutching Academy would revert to its longstanding embarrassing practice of nominating only white actors in all categories. San Francisco actor and San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company co-founder Rodney Earl Jackson Jr. noted that white America’s fair-weather fondness for Black artists instantly evaporates the moment that love can no longer be simple. And Hakeem Jefferson, an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University, posted a thread about how the incident plays into his own research on respectability politics.
Next year they’re going back to＃奥卡斯SoWhite.
— W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell)March 28, 2022
Everybody loves Black Culture…until it gets “complicated”
- Rodney E Jackson Jr.（@rodneyjacksonj）March 28, 2022
这是一个我知道一些关于的话题。尊重的是，白色凝视，特权良好的行为和表演，并坚持认为，如果黑人只是表现得更好，社会会更好地对待我们。在其核心，它也是一种维多利亚风格的道德。
- Hakeem Jefferson（@hakeemjefferson）March 28, 2022
这些只是一个开始。期待热量凝结在凉爽，平静，收集的思想思路。
I know we’re all still processing, but the way casual violence was normalized tonight by a collective national audience will have consequences that we can’t even fathom in the moment.＃oscars2022
- Janai Nelson（@Jnelsonldf）March 28, 2022