Conservatives are not pleased about actor Will Smith’s recent comments about our nation’s “gun culture” and “systemic racism.”
Will Smith made those comments in a recent interview about “Kids, His Career, Ferguson, and Failure.”
The interview, published last Thursday by Esquire, Smith spoke of his role as an actor speaking out against a corrupt system:
It’s been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were “them” and we were “us.” I also know that when I was seventeen years old, I had a $20,000 car, which made it certain that I got pulled over all the time.
Going on he added that:
I understand the difficulty and the pain, and there’s no easy way out right now. The change that has to happen is about to be so brutal and so painful. It’s not unlike the sixties. I think there’s actually a deeper issue at play that America is going to have to face. What we’re really talking about in this issue is people walking around the street with guns that can make a decision whether or not they’re going to kill someone, right? And that’s even more difficult, because there’s really no way back from that. This is a gun culture. And it’s painful for me, because I cannot figure out how to be helpful. I’ve always been telling my sons, We have to separate fault from responsibility—whose fault it is that black men are in this situation, whose fault it is doesn’t matter. It’s our responsibility to make it go right. It’s our responsibility. It’s a lot of people’s fault, systemic racism, and it’s a lot of people’s fault that the black community is in the situation that we’re in, but it’s our responsibility to clean up the mess.
The Young Conservatives website lashed out at Smith, making the usual if you outlaw guns only outlaws will have them:
The people Smith claims are walking around with guns who arbitrarily make the “decision whether or not they’re going to kill someone” are usually criminals who came into possession with their guns illegally.
They go on to say that blacks make up a “disproportionate number” of the people “guilty of violent crime,” adding that Smith won’t admit that fact because he “wants no part of the black backlash” that comes from “speaking this kind of truth.”
And the only reason it’s “painful” for him is because he refuses to say who’s responsible and what needs to be done to the people wreaking havoc in the streets. That means actually enforcing the laws that seek to punish those who engage in gun violence and criminality as opposed to increasing the number of laws that restrict access to- and use of- guns by law-abiding citizens. But Smith will never say that because the disproportionate number of the people who’re guilty of violent crime involving guns are black and he wants no part of the black backlash that comes from speaking this kind of truth.
The comments below the article are filled with the usual jibberish one might expect from an ultra-conservative site, but our favorite comment comes from a Breitbart user, who wrote:
Yeah, this “gun culture” really worries me too. In fact, I think it’s long past time that we all rally together and INSIST on really protecting our president!! We must immediately enforce a gun-free zone around him. After all, right now there are all those deadly weapons in the hands of the Secret Service, any one of which could kill him. Insist on presidential protection today – a gun free zone around Obama!!
What’s more, the White House needs to directly reflect the principles of the occupants – that means that the fence around the White House must be torn down, and all borders removed around it, because, after all, it is the people’s house and people of all races, colors, nationalities, genders, etc., should be able to enter it at will and have all the rights of any other person. Diversity and multiculturalism is essential to show the world how we view others. Obama tells us so, after all.
And I just don’t understand all the uproar over that guy who jumped the White House fence a couple of weeks ago. Why all the hullaballoo?? He was only an undocumented visitor — once he got in, the least they could do was give him a room, free healthcare, and access to welfare, SS, and Medicare. It’s only fair after all.
Come on people, insist on properly protecting our president and supporting his principles in these matters!!!
Furthermore, since the President assures us that there is no risk of Ebola and none to those flying back and forth, why doesn’t he take a commercial flight to Monrovia Liberia along with his pen and phone to show us just how sincere he is and how safe it really is? While he’s at it, he can visit and get a photo op with our troops he’s stationed there, I’m sure that would help their moral.
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