Because of my lifelong intimacy and familiarity with vengeful violence, I feel deeply annoyed by the idea that women praise a man’s physical retaliation in a joke. I wonder, for my sake and for my kinship with other women, How can we expect this kind of energy to not eventually return to us? In addition, the answers to the joke claiming that Smith was defending his wife’s honor in a room full of white figures of the Hollywood establishment whites still in the center. Why bother really with what whites think about an exchange between three blacks? Celebrity Oscars actually have more in common with each other – wealth, privilege, influence – than with all of us watching at home. On Sunday night, CBS Los Angeles reporter Jasmine Viel interviewed celebrities at the Elton John’s AIDS Foundation slap party. He said he met retired NBA star Metta World Peace, who refused to speak because he had not fully seen the incident and wanted to keep his judgment until he did. “He’s the guy who also knows when anger can get the better of you,” Viel said, referring to World Peace’s infamous 2004 Malice at the Palace brawl between Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons last one. basketball arena. After an on-field clash between the teams, a fan threw a cup of water at World Peace as he lay on the scorer’s table. This led to a full-blown clash between basketball players and fans, followed by fines and player exclusions, and a heated debate over respect for the sport. Perhaps just as important, the story secured ratings, as the interlocutors spent too much time editing what happened on television. As Jonathan Abrams noted in the oral history of the event, “The media talked about safety, fan behavior and the weak relationship between players and spectators for weeks.” At the 2004 US Open, Serena Williams’ outraged response to four controversial explosive calls sparked a media frenzy. (I watched this match live and I remember crying and shouting in my bedroom about how unfair the calls were. Watching it now makes me just as angry as it was then.) US in 2018 Open on the claim that she was coached during the race echoed that first collapse. Of course, there are also public expressions of anger from Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West. His first appearance on the national stage happened during a telethon for Hurricane Katrina. “George W. Bush does not care about blacks,” said the famous, sullen man. His viral interviews and angry posts on social media continue to provoke controversy. A clip from an early season America’s Next Top Model, in which Tyra Banks lost her temper and shouted at contestant Tiffany Richardson, became a popular meme. In February 2014, Ray Rice hit Janay’s then fiancé in an elevator and was the subject of a public hearing for weeks. Months later, in May 2014, after the Met Gala, Solange Knowles attacked her brother-in-law, Jay-Z, in an elevator and, once again, a debate over decency and dignity then dominated the national discourse. In each of these situations, Black Anger, no matter how temporarily developed, went viral in its own time. There were hot topics in the mainstream press, the tabloids, the daily talk shows and the clips. Public Black’s anger, as justified and accurate as it is, from Malcolm X’s fiery speeches (right) to the Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver’s inflammatory political commentary, to Ye’s spontaneous social media crises, he is strong. sells newspapers, books and anything else for sale, including America’s attention.
