Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Jamaal Bowman on Sunday evening posted and then promptly deleted tweets apparently in defense of actor Will Smith for slapping comedian Chris Rock onstage at the Oscars after a joke at Smith's wife’s expense.
After deleting her initial response, Pressley wrote in a new series of tweets that she does not condone violence in any form."#Alopecia nation stand up! Thank you #WillSmith,” Pressley, of Massachusetts, wrote in one deleted tweet. “Shout out to all the husbands who defend their wives living with alopecia in the face of daily ignorance & insults.
— Ayanna Pressley March 28, 2022 "Our bodies are not public domain," she wrote."They are not a line in a joke — especially when the transformation is not of our choosing." In a subsequently deleted tweet, Bowman called the viral Oscars incident a “teachable moment” showing not to mock a black woman’s hair.
At the Sunday evening awards ceremony, Rock acknowledged Pinkett Smith in the audience and said,"Jada, I love you. G.I. Jane 2, can't wait to see you, all right."
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