I'm trying hard not to take sides with "Team Chris" or "Team Will," but I'm exceedingly angry at Will for doing what he did. He immediately reverted to his "lizard brain," upon a hint from his wife, and he perpetuated the trope that black men have no self control. "You can dress 'em up, but you can't take 'em out.”

I don't keep up with entertainment gossip, but I understand that Will and Jada live their "private lives" rather publicly. If you deliberately make publicity fodder of your life, then it is no longer private. It is a commodity, and you have made it everyone's business. If Rock knew of Jada's alopecia, then his joke was cruel and uncalled for. If he didn't know, then, while, perhaps, questionable, his joke was not unthinkable.

Smith could have handled his response in a dozen different ways, any of which would have made him the hero. Now, his "happy-go-lucky nice guy" image has been ruined. We know that that is, or was, his image, but we know nothing about his private behavior, so we know nothing about whether or not he is a "nice guy" in real life. What was really not nice? Smith tainted the evening for every award winner who followed his stunt. The evening became one not of celebrating art and artistry, but the subject of cheap gossip and taking sides. Yes, I'm guilty, too.