If anyone is still not convinced that many Donald Trump supporters and their accompanying “Make America Great Again” MAGA hats aren’t a racist, cultural, and social threat to the nation, just ask actor Jussie Smollett.
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Jussie, who plays “Jamal Lyon” on the Fox Television Music-Drama EMPIRE, was attacked and brutally beaten in Chicago early Tuesday by a bunch of Trump-loving homophobes. The assault was so severe, Jussie needed to be hospitalized.
According to show producers, EMPIRE has been on location and filming in Chicago this week. The 35-year-old actor/singer, who is openly gay, recently received a sinister note at the Fox Studios in Chicago with cut out letters spelling, “You will die Black f*g,” and the acronym MAGA printed in the upper left corner of the envelope.
Initially, Smollett thought nothing of the racist and homophobic warning. However, the threat was real.
At around 2am early Tuesday morning in Chicago, Jussie was leaving a Subway restaurant when 2 white men wearing ski masks approached him on the street.
“Aren’t you that f*ggot ‘Empire’ n*gger?” one of the men yelled before placing a noose around the actor’s neck. The men then took turns viciously beating him and, although he fought back, they battered him badly enough to fracture a rib.
The men then poured bleach on him and left him bleeding on the sidewalk. However, before escaping, Smollett said the men yelled, “This is MAGA country” as a reference of their allegiance toward Donald Trump and his hatred movement.
Jussie was able to peel himself off the sidewalk and make it to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was admitted overnight.
Understandably, the Chicago Police Department is investigating the incident as a hate crime. Fox Television has since hired a team of security officers to protect the EMPIRE actors at all times.
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“We are deeply saddened and outraged to learn that a member of our EMPIRE family, Jussie Smollett, was viciously attacked last night. We send our love to Jussie, who is resilient and strong, and we will work with law enforcement to bring these perpetrators to justice. The entire studio, network and production stands united in the face of any despicable act of violence and hate — and especially against one of our own.” – 20th Century Fox
The attack comes on the heels of an incident in Washington, DC early last week, when a group of white teen boys from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky caused a commotion for wearing MAGA hats. Since then, actress Alyssa Milano has been criticized for publicly verbalizing what many African-Americans and other minorities across the country have already been pondering privately: MAGA hats are the new KKK hoods.
This is sick. I heard about this last night and all I could think about is them pouring bleach on him and screaming MAGA. But the part that really pisses me off is how the media is calling it a possible hate attack. What is ‘possible’ about it? They poured bleach on him and called him a racist and sexual slur. How is this not clear to anybody? See what box Trump opened.