Posted on 02/24/2015 2:11:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I’ve always admired Will Smith and respected him as a natural acting and comedic talent. But I value his view on guns about as much as his opinion on quantum physics. In all probability, he knows bupkus about either.
Isn’t Fresh Prince more of a counter to today’s Two & A Half Men or The New Normal or any other family hour perverted takes on “family”?
Friends was about single yuppies in the big city (but not the promiscuous skanks in Sex In The City).
Seinfeld was about disfunctional single adults. None of them were positive role models. Their faults were comedic.
Amazing how a gang of rednecks can sit around and drink beer, shoot targets and not kill each other.
I don’t think I’ve ever even seen this guy in a movie. Wait: that sci-fi movie about the Martians blowing up Washington, D.C.; I did see that. Stupid movie, but I did kind of enjoy seeing D.C. get its due.
Personally, I'll save my respect for someone who doesn't claim to take responsibility but leave the door open to blame someone else for their problems.
Honestly, I somewhat agree with him. He’s being a realist, albeit somewhat politically correct.
He’s an influence on black America, even if he didn’t believe cops were the problem he couldn’t say it. He’s being careful with his words. Regardless, he states two facts:
- We do have a gun culture (knowing it is mortally abused in the black community, he knows it). Although I didn’t read that he thinks it is a fundamentally bad thing.
- It doesn’t matter how things emerged, there’s the responsibility to fix it from within.
At least he’s focused on doing something positive, for this I can support him. He’s a black man that grew up on the streets in the ‘80s. I have no doubt that his environment influenced his juvenile years (attitude) and lingers with him, even if he’s grown up. However, now he is a responsible father that is preaching responsibility.
His perspective could be much worse (ie Sharpton), it’s actually quite conservative in comparison.
Its a little disingenuous to pretend that in 64, all of America instantly shed racism, and opened their arms to their black bretheren, and that for reasons we whites never fully understood, the blacks suddenly went nuts.
A lot was done, but pretending that racism didn’t have some effects on today is a bit over the top. Of course the black culture is to blame for an awful lot of what they have become. In the 80s and the Cosby era, a lot of the racism was dying fast, and was on its way out.
Smith has it right. Yeah, a lot of things have been the cause of the state of Black America. But he told his boys not to dwell on the cause, but to dwell on what they can to to take responsibility for whatever state they find themselves in.
That’s a solid message. Your take on this is exactly why blacks often look at conservatism and decide nothing they can do will get them accepted. By any objective standard, he said a very solid fatherly and good citizen thing to his kids.
Amazing how a gang of rednecks can sit around and drink beer, shoot targets and not kill each other.
To the left of things no doubt. But he at least sounds correct in telling his kids that it’s up to them.
His kids are freaky-weird though, so...
The black culture’s fascination with guns is what’s to blame for all the black deaths in America. And that’s the truth.
Will Smith net worth $240 millions and counting.
I wish I were treated as poorly as he is.....
He has a freaky wife and 2 weird kids.
Will Smith is an idiotic turd. “Gun Culture” is not responsible for drive-by shootings or any other deaths in the “black community”. Rather it’s black culture that is solely responsible for that.
Again, what an idiot. Just one more actor whose movies I don’t watch anymore. I’d rather spend my money on more ammo anyways.
About what Mitt Romney is supposedly worth, which is strange, since VC founders are usually billionaires.
His own recording career may have been free of such gun violence but so is his critique of American culture. He attacks the ‘gun culture’ without attacking those who glamorize gun crime for entertainment and profit in the black community.
I remember early rap from the 70’s and 80’s that was blue as hell. Had to hear it in the barracks.
Thats exactly why I don't take them seriously.
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