{"id":27322,"date":"2021-06-21T17:51:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T17:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=27322"},"modified":"2021-06-21T19:09:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T19:09:12","slug":"kevin-hart-red-table-talk","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/kevin-hart-red-table-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Hart Still Doesn\u2019t Get It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kevin Hart (Photo: Axelle\/Bauer-Griffin\/FilmMagic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s a weird thing to admit, but I think about Kevin Hart<\/a> a lot. It\u2019s not really a choice. His name seems to pop up in my inbox at least once a week, almost always in a news item about some project of his that\u2019s been picked up by a network or studio. And every one of those headlines feels a little bit like a slap in the face.<\/p>\n

Most recently, Hart appeared on the latest episode of Jada Pinkett Smith\u2019s Facebook Watch chat show, Red Table Talk<\/em><\/a>. Smith\u2019s husband Will, took over hosting duties for the special Father\u2019s Day<\/a> edition, and he and Hart had a candid one-on-one conversation<\/a> about fame and fatherhood. Most notably, they discussed how Hart\u2019s own public scandals have impacted his relationship with his children. He opened up about cheating on his wife, Eniko Parrish, and also revisited the scandal that lead to his stepping down as host of the 2019 Oscars<\/a>. Which is the reason why the 41-year-old comedian is, regrettably, such a frequent squatter in my head.<\/p>\n

To recap: after it was announced, in December 2018, that Hart would host the following year\u2019s Academy Awards ceremony, critics pointed out his well-documented history<\/a> of homophobic tweets and jokes stretching back to at least 2009. In one particularly upsetting tweet which has since been deleted, Hart \u201cjoked\u201d about bludgeoning his young son with a dollhouse should he ever show interest in playing with it.<\/p>\n

Though he ultimately chose not to host the Oscars, Hart was surprisingly defiant in the face of the backlash. He initially refused to apologize for jokes he\u2019d made in the past, insisting that he\u2019d already done so. Hart quickly backtracked and issued a couple perfunctory apologies to the LGBTQ community on Twitter and on his SiriusXM radio show.<\/p>\n

Through it all, though, it was hard not to recognize a note of resentment in Hart\u2019s public statements. He consistently resisted discussing the situation, insisting that he had \u201cevolved\u201d since making the offensive jokes and that there was nothing more to say about the matter. He even seemed to imply that the problem was not with him, but with the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n

\u201cStop looking for reasons to be negative…Stop searching for reasons to be angry,\u201d he wrote in a defiant Instgram post<\/a>. On his radio show he addressed the LGBTQ public directly: \u201cIf you don\u2019t want to accept people for their change, then where are you trying to get to the equal part?\u201d<\/p>\n

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