Will Smith: 'Black Lives Matter' Is A Better Slogan Than 'Defund The Police'
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The actor told GQ: “I’m not saying we shouldn’t defund the police. I’m saying, just don’t say that, because then people who would help you won’t.”
Will Smith says the worldwide reckoning with racism that occurred in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death has been mostly positive ― but he thinks it could use better branding.
“The entire world was in lockdown, watched what happened to George Floyd, and stood up with one voice and said, We see it. We agree,” Smith told GQ magazine in a profile published Monday. “That’s never happened before and with that the opportunities are unlike they’ve ever been.”
Case in point: “Emancipation,” Smith’s upcoming Civil War-era epic for Apple TV. The movie, directed by Antoine Fuqua, tells the story of “Whipped Peter,” an enslaved man who was the subject of one of the most widely circulated images of slavery of its time.
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