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Will Smith Says Racism Isn’t Getting Worse, “It’s Getting Filmed”

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Last week&comma; &num;WillSmith visited &num;TheTonightShow where &num;JimmyFallon asked the &num;SuicideSquad actor to chime in on current race relations&period; &&num;8220&semi;Hearing people say that race relations are worse than they’ve ever been&comma; it doesn’t feel like that to me&comma;” the actor says&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Racism isn’t getting worse&comma; it’s getting filmed&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Perhaps&comma; Smith is onto something considering the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were caught on camera last month&period; Their deaths sparked outrage since they happened within 24 hours of each other&period; On the flip side&comma; the killings have continued a much needed conversation about racism in America since a lot of people really don&&num;8217&semi;t get it&excl; Smith likened this dilemma to marriage counseling in which neither party understands what is wrong until it&&num;8217&semi;s all out in the open&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It feels to me like what happens in marriage counseling&colon; once everything gets out on the table&comma; the truth&comma; once everybody’s said everything they’ve been harboring&comma; there’s a really dark time when you’re just looking at your partner like&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Oh my god&comma; that’s what you think&quest;'&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Smith continued&comma; &&num;8220&semi;But there’s a dark before the dawn&period; When everything gets out&comma; it’s a good thing&period; It just sucks bad when the truth is out&period; But I think everybody can see it now&period; And I think it’s just a little darkness before the cleansing that we’ll have as we move forward&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Do you agree with Will Smith&comma; Roommates&quest; With any reconciliation&comma; sometimes things can get worse before they get better&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>TSR STAFF&colon; Talia O&period; &commat;theclosetratchet on Instagram &amp&semi; &commat;tallyohhh on Twitter&excl;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Source&colon; http&colon;&sol;&sol;hiphopdx&period;com&sol;news&sol;id&period;39832&sol;title&period;will-smith-on-race-relations-in-america-it-isnt-getting-worse-its-getting-filmed<&sol;p>&NewLine; 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