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'Empire' star Jussie Smollett attacked in possible hate crime
By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...tertainment/jussie-smollett-attack/index.html

“Empire" actor Jussie Smollett was attacked in the early morning hours on Tuesday in what Chicago police are calling a possible hate crime.

Smollett was attacked by two people "yelling out racial and homophobic slurs" and "poured an unknown chemical substance on the victim," police said.

According to police, one of Smollett's alleged attackers also put a rope around his neck. Both fled the scene.

Smollett took himself to Northwestern Hospital and "is in good condition," police told CNN.

Later Tuesday, CNN's Don Lemon spoke to Smollett and a mutual friend who was at the hospital with the actor. Smollett confirmed the incident took place.

He was shaken and angry that an attack like this could happen. Smollett told CNN he fought back at the attackers.

"Given the severity of the allegations, we are taking this investigation very seriously and treating it as a possible hate crime," the police statement said.

Smollett has starred on Fox's "Empire" since 2015. He plays Jamal, a successful singer in the musical Lyon family. Like his character, Smollett identifies as gay.

"We are deeply saddened and outraged to learn that a member of our 'Empire' family, Jussie Smollett, was viciously attacked last night," a representative of 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment said in a statement to CNN. "We send our love to Jussie, who is resilient and strong, and we will work with law enforcement to bring these perpetrators to justice. The entire studio, network and production stands united in the face of any despicable act of violence and hate -- and especially against one of our own."

A representative for GLAAD told CNN the organization has reached out Smollett to offer assistance and support.

"Jussie is a true champion for LGBTQ people and is beloved by the community and allies around the world," a GLAAD spokesperson said in a statement.

Anyone with information is asked to call Area Central Detectives at 312-747-8382
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greengrilledcheese said:
These niggers are legitimately stupid.

His brother Jake posts this:
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Jake Smollett on Instagram: “#repost @ayeprahl_badu”

8,226 Likes, 809 Comments - Jake Smollett (@jakesmollett) on Instagram: “#repost @ayeprahl_badu”
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Mirror of the images if you don't do IG:
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Uncanny.
 
greengrilledcheese said:
These niggers are legitimately stupid.

His brother Jake posts this:
www.instagram.com

Jake Smollett on Instagram: “#repost @ayeprahl_badu”

8,226 Likes, 809 Comments - Jake Smollett (@jakesmollett) on Instagram: “#repost @ayeprahl_badu”
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Jussie has probably been lying to and manipulating his family for years. They've been brainwashed.

Is this the same brother that Jussie tried to pin his drunken driving arrest on?
 
Flexo said:
Saw someone who hopped on the early bandwagon post this with "this just gets weirder and weirder"
thegrio.com

New evidence in Jussie Smollett's case suggest that he may not be lying

Reports confirm that texts between Smollett & the Osundairo brothers prove that the $3500 check was for fitness training, and not payment for the attack.
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How come you idiots didn't find it weird when there were two white guys out at 2am on the coldest night of the year?


"This just proves how dangerous cars are in this country!"

"Well now this is just weird."
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"...suggest he may not be lying."

WTF. What a milquetoast attempt to defend him, while saying absolutely nothing. "Jeffrey Dahmer's lawyer says client is not a homosexual, which suggests he may not be lying."

It carries the emotive power to manipulate, though. What a dishonest, shit piece of writing. That's another phrase that needs to go into my book: "People who say these things need to be shot."
 
SirQuicksand said:
I just have to ask what went through the poor bastard's mind when he thought this was a good idea. Was he actually that desperate for more attention?
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The profession attracts stupid shameless people. A normal person in an acting role would notice how dumb a lot of their lines are (or the story, or their outfit), and would struggle with embarassment for having to say the same lines over and over again in a room full of people recording their every move, with absolutely no idea how they're going to be received when audiences see it. It is easier to not let on that you're embarassed or underconfident if you're too stupid/shameless to feel that to begin with. Some people who act have to go through an intellectual process to deal with these issues but I would say it is the minority. Narcissism is a natural fit for the job. He is just a remarkably stupid person who lucked the fuck out by landing a television show, if he had been a tiny bit grateful he would never have done something this ridiculous.
 
Your Honor, the defendant could not have paid the Nigerians for the faked attack because he was paying them for "fitness"

Defense would like to bring the court's attention to Exhibit D. Let the record show that the check says "fitness dick in my ass"

The defense rests.


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We're seriously getting into "Black folks can't lie, that's a scientific fact" territory here.
 
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Cartoonist faces backlash after adding Jussie Smollett to the list of 'Famous African-American Storytellers'

After criticism, the San Diego Union-Tribune removed a cartoon about Jussie Smollett by Steve Breen, the paper's longtime editorial cartoonist, from its website
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On the eve of James Baldwin's words taking Hollywood's center stage this past weekend, a controversial cartoon depicting Baldwin was pulled by a Southern California newspaper.

On Friday evening, the San Diego Union-Tribune announced that it was removing a work by Steve Breen, the paper's longtime editorial cartoonist, from its website.


Jeff Light, the paper's publisher and editor in chief, also apologized for the cartoon, which in his words "drew an ironic parallel between two august figures - James Baldwin and Toni Morrison - and Jussie Smollett," the "Empire" actor accused of staging a hate crime last month and lying to Chicago police about it.

The cartoon, published Friday, depicted successive portraits of Baldwin, Morrison and Smollett beneath the caption, "Famous African-American Storytellers."


"I consider the cartoon offensive and not in line with our values as a company," Light wrote. Matthew T. Hall, the paper's editorial and opinion director, also apologized for the cartoon.

What happened? A timeline of the Jussie Smollett case
The San Diego newspaper was formerly owned by Tribune Publishing, then-named Tronc, which owns the Chicago Tribune. It was sold, along with the Los Angeles Times, to Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong in June.

"I ultimately agree with the decision to pull the cartoon because enough thoughtful people have told me they find it offensive," Breen, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, told The Washington Post. "I'm frustrated with myself because I feel with a few tweaks, the cartoon could have been salvaged, but I'm not exactly sure what those would be.

"Maybe with the wording. Maybe with James Baldwin and Toni Morrison saying something to Jussie Smollett. I'm not sure - maybe nothing could have made it inoffensive." Breen said he was attempting to satirize Smollett through the incongruity of the cartoon's roster.


"The problem is, I was trying to contrast Jussie Smollett with James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, and people read it as a comparison," says Breen, who notes that going forward, he will more carefully vet his cartoons involving race.

On the Andrews McMeel Syndication website that carries Breen, some commenters called the cartoon's grouping of names a "disrespectful" and an "intellectually dishonest comparison" that appeared to "trivialize the greatness of two people."

Chicago top cop: Police have 'a lot more evidence' against Jussie Smollett than has been disclosed so far
One reader said: "Your cartoon clearly positioned Baldwin and Morrison as if they were part of a police line-up with Smollett. At first - and at even second glance, with little knowledge of these literary geniuses or of Smollett's story, they all look guilty of 'storytelling.' " Another reader, though, wrote: "I saw the cartoon as contrast and not comparison right away. Although I can see how it could be taken offensively I didn't get that vibe from Steve Breen's work. An explanation not an apology would have sufficed."

Morrison has received the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for literature, the Coretta Scott King Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her writing, including the "Beloved" trilogy, "Song of Solomon" and "The Bluest Eye."


Baldwin's many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and France's La Legion D'Honneur. The late author-activist's fifth novel, "If Beale Street Could Talk," was adapted into Barry Jenkins's 2018 film that received an Academy Award on Sunday and three Spirit Awards on Saturday.
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The comic:
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Absolutely savage, especially considering his book-turned-movie just won a fucking Oscar. Glad it got archived and Streisand'ed further by these hurt babies.
 
World's Most Oblivious Pulitzer Prize Winner said:
"I ultimately agree with the decision to pull the cartoon because enough thoughtful people have told me they find it offensive," Breen, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, told The Washington Post. "I'm frustrated with myself because I feel with a few tweaks, the cartoon could have been salvaged, but I'm not exactly sure what those would be."
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People often dislike the truth.
 
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