Will Smith Inspires Philadelphia Population To Turn Guns On Alien Invaders, Robots, Kevin Kline

While this week’s Northeast TImes editorial attracts most of the attention, the letters to the editor pages are, as usual, a ball of fun as well.

Take, for example, this letter by John J. Furlong of Trevose:

I’d like to know when black people are going to start to understand when they are being exploited.

I had to laugh out loud when I saw the news about Will Smith coming to Philadelphia to protest violence.
The creep made millions promoting violence. Seems like only yesterday that I had to follow SEPTA buses around the city with life-sized posters of Smith with two assault type guns promoting one of his very low IQ and excessively violent movies.

Even the comedy show where he arrives in California shows the reason to be a pack of goons giving him a beating in Philadelphia. It’s the mainstream of black comedy and movies. Gotta get something in about how tough the hood is; or reference a drive-by shooting in some way; or glorify the drug dealer.

Wake up and smell the gunpowder, folks. Why didn’t you invite another one of your heroes, O.J. Simpson, to be the keynote speaker? Smith, the hypocrite, should have been laughed out of town.

Look, just because a few guys who were up to no good started makin’ trouble in Will Smith’s neighborhood — and he got in one little fight and his mom got scared — doesn’t mean you have to go be an asshole to him or anything, John.

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