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Several years before disgraced singer and actor Jussie Smollett was convicted of faking a racist, homophobic hate crime against himself, he made a music video featuring elements and themes that appear to mirror his misbegotten caper on a freezing Chicago street in the middle of the night in January 2019.
What's the background?
You know the basics of Smollett's hate hoax: He claimed two white men wearing ski masks confronted him as he was leaving a Subway restaurant around 2 a.m. in subfreezing conditions and yelled "aren't you that f***ot 'Empire' n*****?" before beating him up, putting a rope around his neck, pouring bleach on him, and hollering, "This is MAGA country!" — a reference to former President Donald Trump's red "Make America Great Again" hats.
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It didn't add up, and Smollett's flimsy house of cards was soon tumbling down as the investigation deepened.
A look at Smollett's 2017 music video, "F.U.W."
But before Smollett became a true household name in 2019, he was enjoying success as a cast member of "Empire" and as a singer. And like most of those in the entertainment industry, Smollett also was decidedly anti-Trump.
He called Trump "the mogul of hate" on SiriusXM in March 2016, adding, "That is what I will call him forever. What he has done is capitalized on the fear of this nation."
In that vein, one of Smollett's creations was a music video released just after Trump took office in 2017 titled "F.U.W." — which stands for "f***ed-up world."
Image source: YouTube screenshot
It includes images such as a noose swinging over a black man, separate water fountains for "white" people and "colored" people, and a man in a wheelchair rolling over and crushing a Trump mask.
Image source: YouTube screenshot
"That mask is a representation of this false idea of patriotism. And that mask is a representation of this idea of white male privilege," Smollett said at the time. "It’s so much bigger than him. It’s what he represents, and it’s because of that representation, that’s why he’s the president of the United States currently." He added that "it's our opportunity to take those masks off and shatter them, so that’s what I did."
The clip also shows other images of Smollett apparently encouraging violence, encouraging a child to punch in front of a mirror and someone about to throw a Molotov cocktail.
Image source: YouTube screenshot
Image source: YouTube screenshot
Striking similarities
The similarities between the swinging noose in the video and the rope Smollett claimed was placed around his neck in his staged attack are hard to ignore, as are the clip's imagined widespread racism and oppression under Trump when considered alongside fake exclamations like "This is MAGA country!" in the middle of one of the most left-wing cites in America.
Conservative journalist Andy Ngo seemed to be making that case Monday.
Content warning: language in video
Flashback: Convicted hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett had previously starred in a leftist political music video where there is a fake Donald Trump, white racists and a noose.pic.twitter.com/e5ImcffPPm
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Twitter commenters also were seeing parallels between Smollett's video and Smollett's hate hoax:
"You can see how it served as inspiration for his Hate Crime Hoax," one user noticed.
"Seems even his work is based on [a] false narrative too," another commenter wrote.
"Jussie has clearly got some serious mental health issues. How sick does someone need to be to make this video full of made up s**t & not one of his friends or family members get him psychological help?" another user asked.
"Wow, he really wanted attention. Poor dude, was indoctrinated all these years. SAD way to do it. Instead of making a difference, destroyed himself," another commenter said.
"They need a bad guy to gin up the hate. Part of the victim culture is there needs to be a cause to go to war," another user wrote. "Since Trump didn't provide any lynch mobs, Jussie had to invent them."
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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