Well, if you're going to engage in a racial-based hate crime / hoax, then go all the way, I guess.
Judge sentences Smollett for hate crime hoax.
The "fears" of what? That racism and homophobia incidents are so vanishingly rare in America these days that you have to complete manufacture them to keep the industry alive? Because I'm pretty sure there is still plenty of both, to the point where no one needs an actor to completely fake one.
Judge sentences Smollett for hate crime hoax.
“If I did this, then it means that I stuck my fist in the fears of Black Americans in this country for over 400 years. And the fears of the LGBT community,” Smollett said, growing increasingly upset and eventually raising his fist in the air.
The "fears" of what? That racism and homophobia incidents are so vanishingly rare in America these days that you have to complete manufacture them to keep the industry alive? Because I'm pretty sure there is still plenty of both, to the point where no one needs an actor to completely fake one.