I hope that Jussie Smollett gets the help he so desperately needs. Transgender folk - both old and young are victims of hate crimes
daily. For every step forward for the LGBT community as a whole in this country, we are shoved back two because of the hatred that still lingers. On top of that, there's legitimate racism in Chicago and in this country. Faking a hate crime just to get exposure, to get a higher salary, is despicable and it will have the opposite affect.
Actor Jussie Smollett, who was hospitalized late last month after an apparent racist, homophobic hate crime, has turned himself into the police and faces felony charges for allegedly orchestrating his own assault.
Smollett was arrested by the Chicago Police Department on Wednesday night, less than a month after he told police he’d been assaulted by two men who shouted slurs at him, doused him with bleach, beat him, and left a rope hanging around his neck like a noose. The men yelled “this is MAGA country” as they fled the scene, Smollett told detectives, who announced that they were treating the attack as “a possible hate crime.”
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