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About Those Oscars
The “incident” is a mirror of our society
By now anyone who reads the news is already aware of the “incident” at last night’s Oscars. Will Smith, upset about an insult Chris Rock hurled at his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, took a swing at Rock as he took the stage. This incident made the front page of almost every news outlet in America.
While most of the articles I have read about this are critical, I personally think it was a good thing. What better way to show how far our society has devolved than to have two millionaire actors have a fight on a stage in front of an audience, and then one of them claims his award?
This is what our society has become.
Role Models for Our Youth
Whether Chris Rock and Will Smith realize it or want it, they are role models for our youth. How adults in our society carry themselves, especially on the world stage, is something that affects how our children perceive what is normal behavior. Smith and Rock didn’t do our children or us any favor with their antics at the Oscars.
If Will Smith can take a swing at Chris Rock on a public stage, doesn’t that legitimize this as an appropriate response to an insult? At the school I work at, we have fights often. The kids I work with go from zero to ten immediately. No one…
