Here’s the script, the screenplay. The trope, the myth. The folklore and mythology. “It’s the attackers, but it’s also the attacks,” reported Jussie Smollett to GMA, who’s black and openly gay. “It’s not that you don’t believe this is the truth; you don’t even want to see this is the truth.” [USA Today]
“It feels like if I had said it was a Muslim, or a Mexican, or someone black, I feel like the doubters would’ve supported me a lot more, and that says a lot about the place that we are in our country right now,” he said.
The 36-year-old also recounted details of the attack, which the Chicago Police Department is investigating as a “possible” hate crime, explaining he was on a food run when he heard someone trying to get his attention.
“I heard ‘Empire,’ and I don’t answer to ‘Empire.’ My name ain’t ‘Empire,’ and I didn’t answer,” he said. “I kept walking, and then I heard “(Homophobic slur) ‘Empire’ (N-word).’ So, I turned around and I said, ‘(What) the (expletive) did you just say to me?’
“And I see the attacker, masked and he said, ‘This MAGA country, (N-word).’ Punches me right in the face,” Smollett continued. “So I punched his (expletive) back. And then we started tussling and it was very icy.
“We ended up tussling by the stairs, fighting, fighting, fighting,” Smollett added. “There was a second person involved who was kicking me in my back, and then it just stopped. And they ran off.”
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