Jussie Smollett’s outburst during his sentencing hearing yesterday was a fitting finale to a bizarre national melodrama. The actor was asked if he had any questions after receiving a jail sentence of five months. He responded by emphatically declaring that he is not suicidal, reiterating his claims of innocence, and raising his fist in the air as a final act of defiance as he was escorted out of the courtroom.
The entire scene was a reminder of the bad acting and plot twists that the American public has endured over the past three years. The "Empire" actor started this show as a sympathetic victim of a vicious hate crime that was condemned by everyone from Al Sharpton to Donlad Trump. He ended it as a poster boy for privilege and ethnic Munchausen syndrome – the condition that incentivizes narcissists to fake racial attacks and embellish claims of racial trauma to draw attention to themselves.
The Smollett saga also represents something much more important – the moral decay and cultural irrelevance of the black leadership class composed of liberal elected officials, activists, academics, journalists, cultural critics, athletes, and entertainers. On the surface, members of this “Afristocracy” look like the “Talented Tenth” described by W.E.B. DuBois, but the major difference is that this group of elites have self-preservation, not social progress, as their primary motivating factor.
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/squires-jussie-smolletts-case-shows-how-far-the-afristocracy-will-go-to-protect-its-own---------
'Afristocracy'
Perfect.
