I found out because it was trending on social media and BGOL had a thread about it.
I've never given my thoughts about the original incident one way or the other because it didn't hold my interest beyond hearing about it. In fact, other than this thread, I've not discussed it on or offline. I still find it hard to believe that someone whose livelihood requires them to be up to date on current events and trends, missed something that trended for an entire week on social media. They most likely have mutual friends. No one called him and asked what what up with ole girl or asked if he liked her look or anything? I'm sorry but I still don't buy it.
That's fair.
I never saw that BGOL post, or may have seen the title and scrolled past it because of disinterest. I notice that the first mention of her having alopecia happened on post #36 and a few posts later someone put a link to an article with Jada talking about having it. I had no idea about it until a week or two after the slap occurred.
Do you really think it unusual to think that no one called him up specifically asking about Jada Pinkett's baldness?
I never really have much used my Twitter account and am only recently using Instagram with regularity. I come here and read stuff, get headlines from Apple News sent to notifications (some which I click on) and I use YouTube heavily, including a good deal of progressive news analysis.
Just now, I went and looked at Chris Rock's official pages on Twitter and IG. It looked to me like his posting is sporadic at best. Usually it's connected to an appearance, concert dates or something like him being on a magazine cover. There were a few retweets, but I don't remember seeing things where he was giving his opinion on things. There would be a bunch of postings for a week or two, usually connected to concert announcements, then nothing for months on end. This, especially prior to the slapping incident. So from that, I gather that Chris is not really much of a social media dude relative to someone like D.L. Hughley who does full commentaries on current events or even Snoop who has brief commentary where he posts funny and quirky stuff. It would not surprise me if Chris has a social media person doing his postings for him.
Last year, it was reported in a ton of publications that Kenny Rock said his brother knew nothing about Jada's condition. True? I don't know for sure. But I haven't heard anything proving the opposite.
Me personally, I don't care for Jada Pinkett-Smith. Yet when they first showed her on the Oscar red carpet, my first thought was how beautiful she looked and how striking she was with her hair super short like that. Every woman can't pull that look off. She did it magnificently. I'd have never guessed she was sensitive about how she looked or that her hair was short as a result of alopecia.
