Jada Pinkett Smith Talks Tupac, Race, Genocide -- is Right on the Money Like Always

Our love for Jada Pinkett Smith only grows by leaps and bounds, and guys, her latest FB post about her lost friends Tupac and Maxine is no exception. 


From Jada's Facebook: 

I'm having an extremely reflective Saturday. 

In this picture I'm flanked by two extremely close friends of mine...Tupac and Maxine. They both died tragically not too far apart from one another. I flipped through more pictures of my youth only to come across at least 6 other friends who had been taken from this world...violently. I can't even count acquaintances. There was a time all that loss felt like the norm; today it felt unnatural, strange, downright wrong. Half of my life was surviving a war zone...genocide. I'm grateful for what I have survived. GratefuI that I can spend an evening with Fallon playing a pie in the face game. Grateful I didn't become a statistic like I often thought I would. Grateful that my own children don't have to confront the loss and violence in their neighborhood in the way their parents had to. But, I also feel helpless, a bit depressed that there are so many of us who still do. And it feels like it's only gotten and getting worse.

I'm hurting today.

Amazing, right? It's people like Jada who are going to change the world, mark those words down in a book of remembrance somewhere.

Don't let Jada's words fall on deaf ears -- this is an important, despite being brief, message that she's sharing.