Taj Jackson, Michael Jackson’s nephew, has slammed Chris Rock for a joke he made during his Netflix comedy special, and complimented Will Smith for the notorious Oscars slap.
Chris Rock: Selective Outrage, a no-holds-barred comedy programme, premiered on Netflix on Sunday, and features the 58-year-old comic discussing the slap, his thoughts on ‘being a victim,’ and taking aim at Meghan Markle.
Chris compared Jackson to R Kelly, the notorious musician who was convicted of six of 13 charges brought against him in Chicago last September, including three counts of coercing kids into sexual behaviour and three counts of creating sex recordings involving a juvenile.
The 56-year-old, who is presently serving a 30-year jail sentence in New York on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for child sex offences last month.
Jackson was cleared of child molestation allegations in 2005 and died in 2009 following a cardiac attack caused by a propofol overdose.
Addressing the joke about his late uncle, Taj fumed on Twitter: ‘Chris Rock has used my family as punching bags for his entire career.
‘Yet I am supposed to feel bad for him getting slapped and humiliated on the Oscars.
‘After seeing a new clip of him attacking my dead uncle in the first minutes of his “Retaliation-I’m still relevant ”special, I have 3 things to say.
‘1. What did my family ever do to you to warrant these decades of harassment and your constant bullying disguise as jokes?
‘2. Just because you were bullied early on in life doesn’t give you the excuse to bully others now.
‘3. Thank you Will Smith.’
In the special, Chris says: ‘The thing I have a problem with is the selective outrage. You know what I’m talking about.
‘One person does something, they get cancelled. Somebody else does the exact same thing, nothing.
‘You know what I’m talking about, like the kind of people that play Michael Jackson songs, but won’t play R Kelly.
‘Same crime, one of them just got better songs.’
Elsewhere, Chris addressed the infamous slap and explains how the special’s title was inspired by Will, 54, and made fun of the actor’s wife Jada, 51, who revealed in 2020 that she had a ‘entanglement’ with singer August Alsina while she and Will were on a break, a revelation the pair later discussed on her Red Table Talk show.
‘Will Smith practices selective outrage. Everybody that really knows knows I had nothing to do with that s***. I didn’t have any entanglements,’ Chris told the audience who were in hysterics throughout the whole bit.
He continued: ‘His wife was f****** her son’s friend. Now, I normally would not talk about this s***, but for some reason, these n***** put that s*** on the internet. I have no idea why two people that talented would do something that low-down.
‘We all been cheated on. Everybody in here has been cheated on. None of us have ever been interviewed by the person that cheated on us on television. None of us. … Why the f*** would you do that s***? She hurt him way more than he hurt me, okay?’
Chris claimed ‘everybody in the world’ called Will ‘a b****’ after the ‘entanglement’ revelation and said he tried to get in touch with him but the actor didn’t pick up.
He quipped: ‘Everybody. And who’s he hit? Me, a n**** he knows he can beat. That is some b****-a** s***.’
Chris Rock: Selective Outrage is available to watch on Netflix now.
Source My Celebrity Life.