On My Mind: Smollett's Folly

By now nearly everyone in America and subsequently the world

has heard the sordid details of the "racially-motivated" attack on 36 year 

 old actor Jussie Smollett, one of the stars of the Fox series, "Empire".

Actor Jussie Smollett

Three weeks ago, Smollett told police he was ambushed by two

masked men as he was walking home from a Subway sandwich shop

around 2 a.m. in a predominantly black neighborhood in Chicago.

Smollett claims the masked men accosted and beat him outside

 the store and made derogatory comments to him, screaming,

"This is MAGA country!" which refers, of course, to

President Trump's campaign message to

"Make America Great Again".

The men then purportedly splashed the actor with bleach and

left him with a rope around his neck before fleeing into the night.

 An anonymous racist and homophobic letter was also

sent to the Fox studio about Smollett, which police have now

determine was sent by the actor himself.

The minute I heard this story, as reported by various media outlets,

I knew something was not quite right about it.

First of all, three weeks ago, Chicago was in the grip of one

of the worst cold spells in this young century.  Why would two

masked men be standing outside at night in the middle

of what weather forecasters were calling a "polar vortex"

waiting to attack Smollett in front of a Subway store?

While social media outlets exploded with condemnation of

the incident, police in Chicago investigating the alleged hate crime

quickly became skeptical of Smollett's version of events, and, have now

declared that the actor concocted the entire story in order

to take advantage of the "pain and anger of racism to 

promote his career."

However,  I am inclined to believe the "attack" staged by Smollett 

was not so much for a raise in pay from Fox as some contend,
 but it was an attempt to add fuel to the fire in the relentless
campaign being waged by the political Left and the media
against the supporters of President Donald Trump.

Oh, and by the way, Mr. Smollett, do you seriously believe

that in the solidly blue, Democrat stronghold of Chicago,

 the city that former Secretary of State and Senator Hillary Clinton once

declared as, "My kinda town" and where both former President Barack

and First Lady Michelle Obama once called home, 

can rightly be called, "MAGA" country? 

I also find it peculiar that only days before his State of the Union address,

in which our president boldly declared that, "America will never

be a Socialist nation" this disgruntled black man and professed homosexual,
who fits into two of the social groups of "victims" exploited by the Left
in this country for political gain, would use what Chicago Police
   Superintendent Eddie Johnson claims was a noose around

  his neck in order to make false allegations.

"How could someone look at the hatred and suffering

associated with that symbol...how can an individual who has

been embraced by the city of Chicago turn around and slap

everyone in this city by making this false claim?" Johnson said.

How indeed.  The noose around Smollett's neck is not

only a symbol of hate and suffering for many people,

 but, in this case, it serves as a bigoted indictment 
  against millions of patriotic Americans who
love their country and their freedom and who
voted for and support President Trump.

  In the aftermath of Smollett's folly,  the deafening silence on the Left 

 is particularly revealing, along with the frenzy to erase comments posted 

 on social media by the usual suspects, who tried to out do each other

 in their profound, self-righteous indignation to defend Smollett, 

 without first having a clear knowledge of all the facts.

But now we know the truth.