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The next night, Jussie played a concert that had been scheduled before the attack. Between songs, he took the microphone and launched into a weird, half-sung-word-poetry kind of speech, telling the crowd that he had been “one hundred percent factual and consistent on every level.” You know, the sort of thing you say when you’re totally innocent and have nothing to hide. Smollett also noted that people had been saying “some stuff” about him that was “absolutely not true.”

Then, on Valentine’s Day, the pair of crazy white racists everyone had been looking for turned up at the police department of their own volition. At last there was a breakthrough! Only those two gentlemen weren’t crazy, they weren’t fans of Donald Trump, and they had not attacked Jussie Smollett. Not in any real sense, anyway.

Oh, and they weren’t white.

The men who came forward were two brothers from Nigeria named Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo. Each one was just over six feet tall and pretty well built. One was an amateur boxer. Soon police would learn that they worked on the show Empire as extras and had allegedly sold illegal drugs to Jussie, arranging the sales via text message. According to police, Smollett had offered them $3,500 to stage the attack and paid them with a check for said amount, upon which he had affixed his signature and the date. In the memo line, he had written “personal training sessions.” Police also discovered footage of the brothers buying bleach, a clothesline, black face masks, and red baseball caps.

Now, I don’t think I’m cut out for the staged-hate-crime business. But if I were, I really don’t think I would pay my “attackers” with a personal check. (I also probably wouldn’t hire two black guys to stage an antiblack hate crime. But, hey, that’s just me.) But Jussie did. Thanks to that small piece of evidence—with the signature, the weird memo line, and the matching date—public opinion finally started to shift away from Smollett. On February 20, he was charged with disorderly conduct and filing a false police report. He turned himself in, stood before a judge, and paid $10,000 bail to the city of Chicago.

Of course, Twitter was filled with repentant Hollywood stars and Democrat politicians apologizing for rushing to judgment.

Yeah, right… Presidential hopefuls and social justice warriors were off to find the next fauxtrage.

Some of them twisted themselves into pretzels trying to moonwalk back their initial reactions. Here’s what Kamala Harris had to say:

I’m very, um, concerned about obviously, the initial, um, allegation that he made about what might have happened.

Clear as a bell, Kamala.

It’s a little different from the succinct “THIS IS A MODERN DAY LYNCHING” she had first posted.

“Strange that no one in Hollywood or the Main Stream Media seems to want #JusticeForJussie anymore. Wonder what changed?” I tweeted.

Predictably, the left had nothing to say. As the facts kept coming, it kept getting quieter (funny how that tends to happen).

In some sick way, the Smollett attack—when people believed it—was the best thing that had ever happened to liberals. For two years, they had been telling the world that Donald Trump had made our country more racist, more divisive, and more dangerous for minorities, and they’d been saying it without a shred of evidence. It was one of those things that—I don’t know—just felt true, man. But that attack, with its gratuitous violence and horrible B-movie dialogue, gave them all the evidence they needed. It was like Christmas all over again, a gift too good to be true.

You see, in the prevailing view of the left, this whole country is a sick, evil white supremacist plot gone wrong. The left likes to think we didn’t like Barack Obama because of his race. In fact, we didn’t like him because of his economic stance, globalist views, and gun-grabbing, big-government, liberal policies—the list is never ending—but race wasn’t our issue with Barry.

They believe our founding fathers were nothing but murderous colonizers who eliminated the Native Americans, enslaved African Americans, and set up the country so that all ethnic and racial minorities would be oppressed for eternity. Anyone who’s proud to be an American is racist. From the leftist historian Howard Zinn up to AOC, people on the left believe that history has been a battle between good people and evil people, oppressors and oppressed, colonizers and victims. This is a binary system. There is no gray area between the two types of people. No nuances. You can be either an oppressor or an oppressed. And if you’re a white man, you’re almost always the former.

Here’s the thing: Democrats have built an entire platform around victimhood and oppression. Radical liberals believe that the more labels you have—lesbian, bi, trans, gay, black, Hispanic, etc.—the more “woke” points you have. And the more you’ve suffered and been oppressed, the more you are worth in the eyes of the modern Democrat Party. More important, you cannot gain an understanding of what it’s like to be black, transgender, or gay by talking to people, reading, or doing your own research on the subject. In fact, it’s racist of you even to try.

So when a minority or a person of color says he or she feels as though something has happened to him or her—whether it’s a microaggression or a full-on act of racial hatred such as the one Smollett described—you are required by the wacky bylaws of leftism to believe that person. If you don’t, you’re a racist.

Jussie took advantage of that flaw in reasoning, and liberals hit the jackpot with all the victim boxes that he checked. How could they pass on the chance? You can imagine Hollywood already planning a movie, Harvard offering him a professorship, and Time magazine putting him on its cover!

If something doesn’t change very soon, it won’t be long before someone tries to do it again. You can’t decide how smart or worthy of praise people are based on how much they’ve suffered or been oppressed by the system (or how much their ancestors or people who are like them have suffered and been oppressed) and not expect there to be consequences.

I’ve always said that if you took all the labels that liberals hold in such high esteem and combined them into one person, you would have the ultimate Democrat candidate for president—a nonbinary minority who identifies as a dolphin, maybe. And although nobody has managed to check all those boxes, our friend Jussie Smollett came pretty damn close. He was OppressionTron 2.0: a gay, black, sensitive man who worked in Hollywood and supported Kamala Harris, the first black female candidate for president. Plus he was an activist with a huge social media platform!

Jackpot! His woke score was off the charts.

Because of their obsession with identity politics, liberals were on Jussie’s side from the beginning. Nothing could have swayed them from their defense of him. And even as some peeled off and joined the real world as the Smollett saga continued, he still had a few strident defenders—far too many, in my opinion, even for these polarized times. DeRay Mckesson, a supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement and the host of a podcast for Crooked Media, seemed only to be concerned about what the Chicago police were doing wrong.

In the eyes of radical liberals like Mckesson, cops are nothing but evil people who only murder young black teenagers. Anytime cops enter the picture, they’re immediately labeled the bad guys. No amount of research or evidence to the contrary can change their minds.

Another ride-or-die supporter of Smollett, apparently, was Cook County state’s attorney and Hillary pal Kim Foxx. As documents would later reveal, Foxx worked out a backroom deal that would set Jussie free, absolving him of blame and allowing him to avoid the years of jail time he might face if the case ever went to trial. All he would have to do was forfeit his $10,000 bail to the city of Chicago—essentially a bribe for his freedom, if you ask me. That deal went into action on March 26, 2019, when Smollett strode into a courthouse in Chicago and stepped up to the microphone, reiterating that he was still not changing his story.