The media loves to make excuses for Black people when some of them behave badly. Many Black commentators are not accepting any excuses on the ground that he is Black.
Why should the white liberal media engage in that crap?
If he had done the same in an African or an Afro-Caribbean country would those explanations work?
If someone were physically assaulted while announcing something live they wouldn't smile at the audience and say "oh wow <x> just slapped the shit out of me." There would be chaos and security and that would probably be the end of the event.
I watched the video and I immediately regretted it. IMO this was mostly just a trick to get people to care about whatever event that was in some way as the industry behind it needs it.
EDIT: What the hell? Down votes? I hate complaining about them but how does this not contribute to the discussion? No one even argues against any of this. I'd wonder if people were being payed to do it but it's such a slow trickle it seems legitimate.
Either I'm losing my mind or half the developed world is.
"Will Smith slapping Chris Rock across the face at the 2022 Oscars was not a planned stunt, an official confirmed Sunday night." [1]
[1] https://pagesix.com/2022/03/28/real-or-staged-oscars-2022-of...
That’s the exact opposite of how any televised live event works.
Generally organisers and security will try and resolve it off camera while presenters ad-lib briefly or the programmes takes a commercial break. But quickly they’re back on schedule.