You missed the whole point. Black folks have been on a crusade for equality in America since it's inception.. it's not about "carrying ourselves a certain way in front of white people" it's about us asking to be respected as a race while constantly disrespecting each other for the world to see. Just going by the rates, the black community is extremely violent and a large part of that is due to what the kids grow up seeing. I live in the Memphis metro and all the kids listen to is music where black men gloat about killing other black men and on TV we see the glorification of violence. That **** has done a number on the psyche of the black community. Violence is literally normalized so for Will to do that on that stage to another black man knowing who's watching, not just white folks, was just fxcked up. The same cats championing Will for that weak shxt are the same dudes defending Ja Morant in the NBA threads. People pay attention to how we treat one another, if we're always publicly putting each other down and enacting violence on one another. How can we then turnaround and ask other groups of folks to treat us with a higher standard of respect than we treat ourselves? And to your point about therapy, most great comedians are fxcked in the head and will tell you comedy is their therapy, it's always been this way. That was a strange criticism.Forget Will and Jada, that man ended with “my momma told me not to fight in front of white people” as his walk off joke as if we suppose to still(or should have ever) act or carry our selves a certain way around them.
But yet, he joked about watching a movie so he can see someone(a black man) be whipped. Hell, I’m trippin another slave movie was made. “Perfect timing” for Will though, smh. Possible slick punishment and reward in Hollywoodland.
Y’all saw comedy I guess. I saw a man that was clearly still hurt, and understandably so. He is a comedian and that is his therapy. The Ali line, Will being bigger, all came off as jokes. Them other parts I mentioned were pretty much, “let me whip him massa”.