Amid the Black Lives Matter protests, Will Smith is also opening up about his own experience growing up as a black man. That being said, the famous actor revealed that when he was only a boy living in West Philadelphia, life was rather scary for him.
Will revealed that he would be called racial slurs by police officers and at some point, his heart would start pounding when cops were around.
That’s right! Will recalled being called the N-word by the police many times while a guest on the On One with Angela Rye podcast. ‘I grew up in [West] Philadelphia under Mayor Rizzo.
He went from chief of police to being the mayor, and he had an iron hand.’ Rizzo was the police commissioner from the year Will was born, which is 1968 to 1971 and he was.
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