My Only Real Takeaway From the Will Smith Debacle Before I Never Talk About It Again: Black People Are Never Allowed to Mess Up

One final piece of commentary before I hope we can all turn our attention back to the issues that actually matter.

Will Smith accepts the Actor in a Leading Role award for ‘King Richard’ onstage during the 94th Annual Academy Awards (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

Will Smith is kinda seen as a genius in the realm of Black filmmakers. 

Not because of his stellar acting and performance skills, or the fact that I grew up watching him in some of the most iconic fi…