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Slack.com slash DHQ. Last week, after Jesse Smollett was sentenced to prison for perpetrating

a ludicrous racehooks in Chicago, the actress' brother made one last impassioned and implausible

plea for his brother's innocence. There is absolutely no evidence linking Jesse to staging

his own hate crime besides the testimony of two brothers, claimed Jokey Smollett. Now,

of course, there was lots of evidence. There was the testimony of the attackers who were

not white-racist gay basher, but in fact Nigerian homosexuals. There were records of Smollett

having paid the brothers. There were records of the Nigerian brothers purchasing the tools

for the hoax. There was security camera footage, and there was of course the sheer implausibility

of white Trump supporters even recognizing the little-known actor while prowling the

streets of Chicago, claiming it was MAGA country, and attempting to lynch Smollett while

he somehow held on to his subway sandwich. Lots and lots and lots of evidence, and yet,

Jesse is having the last laugh now that he has been released from prison after just

a few days. And he convinced an appeals court judge to free him by, you guessed it, playing

at the race card. Smollett's lawyer argued, quote, there is no room in our court system

for politics. Regardless of what you think about this case, the real question is, should

black men be walked into jail for a class for felony? Yes. The answer to that question,

of course, is yes. Men of all races should be walked into jail for felonies. But that

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