What I mean is, everyone is willfully ignoring the elephant in the room, the obvious reason this case stood out in the first place and why it concluded this way.
He's rich, he's famous, he had a high-paid lawyer, he cut a deal, he walked.
Just like it always happens in this country when rich folk are arrested.
And the hate groups scream "it ain't fair! No justice!" when they really mean, "how dare they treat this black man like a white man?"
(Course, in most cases with these folk, "black man" will be substituted for the N-word.)
Hate to say it, but it's true. Rich white folk get away with things far worse than what Mr. Smollett did, and anyone who cries that it isn't fair should realize that life ISN'T fair. The whole reason this causes such an outcry is because he's black, plain and simple. I knew it, you knew it, EVERYONE knows it, forgive me for stating the obvious.
Deny it all you want. I'd love to claim bigotry plays no part in the system, or that PC is never an issue in these cases, but I may as well wish for the moon.