Will Smith, Chris Rock and Ketanji Brown Jackson: It’s All Related and It’s Layered
Let’s also talk about Lupita, Denzel, Tyler, Bradley…and Jada
10 min readMar 29, 2022
“What is joke to you is death to me.”
— my late, great Jamaican grandfather
I wouldn’t be surprised if “the slap that was heard around the world” became the subject of the next Red Table Talk: Jada, Will and Chris, sitting around a table, unpacking what happened that warm March evening when Will Smith very ceremoniously knocked the Chris Rock upside the head. For the under-the-rock-dwellers, here’s what I’m talking about for the sake of context: