Lessons in Leadership! Imagine this...at your next company celebration...the person giving remarks makes a joke that an executive doesn't like and he walks up to the stage and assaults the person and calmly walks back to his seat...and then shouts obscenities in front of everyone. What would happen? What would you do? Would you then give that person Employee of the Year Award 15 minutes later and applaud because he cries and says he is defending his family and apologizes to everyone except the person he assaulted? I have loved Will Smith from the Fresh Prince through every major film - but last night he committed a criminal act and assaulted Chris Rock on international television because he didn't like a joke - and then calmly walked back to his seat and screamed obscenities. And no one does anything about it...and thats ok?! Why wasn't he escorted out of the arena in handcuffs? Why wasn't he disqualified from receiving the award...where was the Academy leadership? And because the actor cries and says he is defending his family and trying to "be the light" and do what "God put him there to do" but doesn't apologize to the viewers, parents, children or Chris Rock...doesn't express remorse - instead justifies his actions?!?! Great leadership! All around! Where is the outrage? Then he is filmed partying afterwards with great joy -- not even demonstrating an ounce of remorse or humility afterwards!? Shameful. We need to make sure that our children know that actors are not role models...they are just actors...we pay them to entertain us. We register our opinion by choosing to pay and watch them or not. Unfortunately our society too often fawns over celebrity and kids follow the wrong "role models." Millions of young adult men who idolize Will Smith now think it is ok to assault someone if they don't like their words. I for one am done supporting anything Will Smith does unless he pays some price like anyone else would...and he expresses genuine remorse, asks for forgiveness, and somehow makes this right for the millions of parents and their children who admire him.
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