Let’s dive into the conversation about emasculated Afrocentric men who play small and either make clowns or emotionless scholars of themselves so that they can survive in a white patriarchal world.

Let’s dive into the conversation about emasculated Afrocentric men who have too often turned their self-loathing about being unable to stand up for their women, while they were whipped, raped, or staring at the possibility of a literal or figurative lynching, women whom they have historically been unable to defend.

Let’s dive into the conversation about emasculated Afrocentric men who choose relationships with Caucasian women over Afrocentric women at whom they sneer, and whom they insultingly call loud with bad attitudes, because Afrocentric women have had to develop the strength to tend to and protect their wounded boys and men in a deliberately racist world designed to brutally subjugate and disempower them.

Let’s talk about all that and hear Sister Tiffany Haddish say: “When I saw a Black man stand up for his wife. That meant so much to me,”…“As a woman, who has been unprotected, for someone to say like, ‘Keep my wife’s name out your mouth, leave my wife alone,’ that’s what your husband is supposed to do, right? Protect you. And that meant the world to me. And maybe the world might not like how it went down, but for me, it was the most beautiful thing I ever seen because it made me believe that there are still men out there that love and care about their women, their wives.”

Was the slap beautiful? No. The hope of support was the very beautiful thing.

Let’s dive into the conversation about Afrocentric women who refuse to be infantilized and stereotyped, and who have begun to call our men out to stand for us as women, as we have stood for them.

Having been unable to defend his own mother from his self-loathing father, and having digested Queen Oracene’s pain as she called out King Richard for his failure to acknowledge her significance as a cornerstone in building the Williams family legacy, Will Smith’s well of pain at being the shrinking Afrocentric male who clowns or who over intellectualizes to survive overflowed as he saw yet another broken Afrocentric man insult his queen, and especially about that beautiful crown of hair which has been another source of Afrocentric female pain.

Hopefully someone will prominently position that slap in its proper place so that it will have the incisive impact that it needs to have to effect change.

Look at that slap as the whips with which Jesus created space in the temple for inclusion. Own and use anger as it was meant to be used, to create change – without sin (Ephesians 4:26).