Jamie Foxx Says Tourette’s Activist Saying N-Word During BAFTAS ‘Meant’ It

ByMF Jones

Wild moment at the BAFTAS last night as Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson yelled the N-word while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. Here’s the clip:

BAFTAs host Alan Cumming thanked the audience for their “understanding” after a series of audible outbursts from Davidson, who is the inspiration for BAFTA-winning “I Swear.”

One person who isn’t having it however is Jamie Foxx, who reckons Davidson “meant that sh*t” due to the specific timing of the word while black actors were on stage.

It’s a tricky one, really. Obviously the tics are uncontrollable, but what Foxx and others online are suggesting is that by screaming the word at a pair of black people on stage, there must be some underlying intent that supersedes any medical condition.

Still, I think it’s a little unfair of Jamie Foxx to have a pop at Davidson for this. There are a bunch of Tourette’s sufferers on TikTok right now (black and otherwise) that are speaking out about their experiences and defending Davidson over the incident.

This clip from “I Swear” also does a good job at showing why you really cannot blame a person with Tourette’s for what comes out of their mouths:

At the same time, you can understand why Jamie Foxx and others are so incensed by this. After all, why should Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo have to go through that on live TV? Maybe something the BAFTAS should have thought about before having Davidson attend.

“I Swear” was nominated for six awards and won three on the night, and the person who it was based on was involuntarily cussing people out all night. Can’t get better publicity than that, I suppose.

For the ICE agent who got called the N-word after asking a trans woman: “are you a man?”, click HERE. No winners there.

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