Jack Kemp

This is a great, profound article.

"Kevin Hart is out as the host of the 2019 Oscars just a few days after he was in. That's how it goes, these days. The internet giveth and the internet taketh away.

Hart - an accomplished, veteran comedian - was forced to step down after refusing to apologize for "homophobi" tweets from some seven years ago. The celebrity class is largely silent. Everyone knows they're on record saying something that their own outrage mobs would find untenable. No one wants to get caught in the tempest of their own making.

But Hart's displacement isn't just about being forced to bow to a merciless culture of rage. It also serves as a reminder that there is a giant gap between Hollywood fantasy of black America and the reality of black America. We may be paying a lot of lip service to actors and artists of color these days with nominations, indignant acceptance speeches and clever hashtags but the push by white Hollywood to present itself as more 'woke' than ever is just another form of white privilege.

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