The Sovereignty of Jada Pinkett Smith
The actress captured the hearts of the culture's most celebrated men as a self-actualized and self-governing Black woman and she's being punished for it.
Show me a self-actualized and self-governing woman at any point in history, and I will direct your eyes to a fire. You will smell the scent of flesh-burning flames dancing at her feet. The human experience has shown us time and time again being a free woman—especially a free Black woman—is dangerous, risky business.
Very few celebrity women know this better than Jada Koren Pinkett Smith.
But how did Jada go from one of the most celebrated women in the culture to its most reviled?