Rush or reticence? Patience or punishment? Clemency or condemnation? Post or postpone? Now that the dust is beginning to settle around the Jussie Smollett incident, I wanted to take this week to reflect on what has happened. I’m not talking about the specifics of the case—bizarre as they may be—but rather what has happened to us as a public and what allowed this story to become what it did.
When news surfaced that a racist/homophobic/MAGA-fueled attack had been perpetrated against Jussie Smollett, a black, gay man, many spoke out in support of the “Empire” actor (including myself and my wife).
