It wasn't a minor incident. Will Smith assaulted Chris Rock, who has a mental disorder where he's unable to pick up social cues, and walked away from it without any consequences. This sets a precedence: that it's okay to hit someone if they say something you don't like. Not only that, but Chris didn't build his career at the expense of black women. He's joked about absolutely everyone, including himself. He's never singled out black women and in fact worked to boost them up. Just because his humor hasn't always been clean, that doesn't mean it's bad and he certainly didn't deserve to be assaulted. He didn't even know about Jada's condition and he wouldn't have made that harmless joke if he did. A harmless joke that Will himself thought was hilarious.
The above is nonny's opinion. ^^^
Now, for a few Chris Rock tidbits...
- Chris Rock made the mockumentary Good Hair after a private screening of a black woman's (Regina Kimball's) doc "My Nappy Roots." He did not finance her project but instead made his own, with a mocking tone.
-While on Oprah's show promoting the mock-doc, he cracked a joke about Oprah looking like a "slave" in her childhood picture because her hair had typical black girl plaits and a bang
- he also felt up her hair not believing it to be all hers, and then cracked that she only had long hair because she was rich
- Chris Rock's then wife, did the "big chop" after Good Hair and Chris Rock was uncomfortable with it
- Famed black interior designer w/ alopecia Sheila Bridges was interviewed by Rock (about that very subject!) in his mock-doc, and she recently came out against his joke at Sunday's show and her hurt on her instagram
- in 2016, the year of #OscarsSoWhite, The Smiths boycotted the lack of Academy recognition of black talent by not showing up. During Rock's opening monologue, he quipped that nobody had invited Jada to the awards anyway.
- The GI Jane joke was improvised, not a part of Rock's pre-written bit
***And a BONUS Academy Award tidbit, ...that same one currently marinating over what kind of punishment to give Will Smith for slapping Rock during the telecast...
DW Griffith, who made Birth of a Nation, a film which pioneered many filming techniques and also successfully propagandized lynching and heroized the KKK, has an honorary Oscar and was a founding member of the Academy.
