Why Kevin Hart is Wrong and We Need to Look At Ourselves

There’s been a lot of anger over the last couple of days about Kevin Hart’s previous tweets and comments about LGBTQ and more recent anti-Indigenous actions. While I initially didn’t agree with or understand the fury with which he was being attacked (like some others on twitter) I realized that there are several main reasons this is a problem, both with Hart and myself.

Kevin Hart is not only wrong, but he needs to understand he should admit to being wrong and say, “I’m sorry” without having to be harassed into it. The main problems are: he never apologized for those tweets as far as I have found, based off recent responses he doesn’t seem to understand why he is wrong and, it’s not my place, as a straight female, to deny what the LGBTQ community feels with these tweets or what Indigenous people feel by his behavior. Both communities’ reactions are equally valid.

Homophobic Tweets and…The Apology?

His old tweets that were brought up, show him using homophobic slurs to insult people’s behavior or appearance. There’s even one equating a man looking like a “gay billboard for AIDS”. He also said he would feel he did something “wrong”…