Why Will Smith’s Response Raise Many Questions and Thoughts?

Carriece Jefferson
3 min readMar 28, 2022

I typically don’t write about celebrity news, but when I woke up in the middle of the night to take meds, I couldn’t help but notice the floods on my timeline about the Academy Awards. Comedian Chris Rock made a joke about Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett’s hair, and long story short, Will walked on stage and slapped him. Not only did it stop there, he then uttered the words, “keep my…

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Carriece Jefferson

I’m a full-figured woman who likes writing about experiences, difficult and uncomfortable subjects that encourage others to have honest conversations.