you make a good point - it seems actors somehow live their lives in a permanent state of abstraction. They live in a fantasy land where there are no lasting consequences for things said and done. Then when the find out that they in fact live in a real world where people are flesh and blood and there is true suffering with long term if not permanent consequences they discover that sometimes negative consequences will come at them in a real way and not in the abstract

Absolutely right. A profoundly damaging part of the media’s victim/oppressor narrative is that the message of hatred and fear being reinforced in minority kids every day, eventually leads to self-loathing, anger and eventually for many, acting out violently. Millions are growing up being falsely told they everyone wants to incarcerate or kill them. The problem isn’t racism, it’s truth.

Kim Fox, a friend of the Obama administration, is the one who swept the original case under the rug. She used her office to benefit Smollett and friends. She is the real culprit here. We need to see her charged.