But as is often the case when a star becomes a supernova, the shine becomes so bright that an implosion is right around
That wasn’t the end of the Kevin Hart Self-Defense Tour: Days later, he hopped on the social media app Clubhouse to debate fans who were discussing Hart’s comedic merits in a room called “Is Kevin Hart Funny?” What could have been a moment of game-changing celebrity-fan engagement turned into yet another example of Hart’s inability to reckon with himself and insistence on addressing criticism in the worst ways possible. The room turned toxic; Black women were silenced.
A final thing people can learn is that politics is a traumatic experience for a lot of people. Our focus is not just on “let’s stop the bad thing,” but on helping people hack into the potential and the possibilities. We have to literally affirm communities. Politics has become so hard and divisive that we leave out the joy, we leave out envisioning the potential of what people can do when they collectively use their power. That’s what we try to do and integrate in our political work. It’s not about the politics—it’s about the people.
Our work is around power building, not elections. You see the vicious cycle of all this energy and this work right before the election happens, and then it dissipates as soon as it’s over—you can never really build any sustainable community political infrastructure. We have to be transformative, not transactional. Our engagement can’t just be around the transaction of an election. Who’s excited to see the friend who only comes around when they want something? You have to show up for communities the way they need you and when they need you.
We also learn this in Poli-Sci 101: All politics are local. But for some reason, nobody follows this. What we’ve seen is, normally you see the resources and attention on the higher-level federal elections and, sometimes, the state elections like the governor’s race. Mighty rivers are built drop by drop. Oftentimes, it’s hard to get a community excited about presidential races when they’ve lost control of the school board or the county commission. A part of our model is also supporting folks so they can continue to win and sharpen their tools. A lot of the political organizing has been left up to political parties or candidates. The problem with that is you’re going to be limited by their agenda. We believe the political agenda should be set by the people. And so the people need to have the resources, the infrastructure, and the tools to literally be able to shape the political landscape.
A few days after Kevin Hart released his latest Netflix special, Zero F**ks Given, he was back in front of the camera, this time with an Instagram video reminding the world exactly how many fucks he gave. Twenty-three times he reminded us — 23 times in 88 seconds, every one of them claiming not to care that his disjointed, bland, hour-long attempt at comedy had gotten a lukewarm response.
My love for humanity drives me. The politics to me are the means to an end, not an end in itself. I want to be a part of creating that world where every person — every child, man, and woman, or a person who does not identify with a gender — feels like they’re important, that they have value. They feel like they are respected, and they have a voice. That’s the kind of world I want to create.
Then came the specials. Seriously Funny in 2010, and Laugh at My Pain in 2011 made “alright, alright, alright” and “night night” (not to mention the bit about cursing out his teacher) part of the Black everyday discourse. Hart wasn’t just genuinely charismatic, with a magnetic smile and an infectious laugh; he was a walking meme, as quotable as any Drake hook. Next, came movies like Think Like a Man in 2012 and Ride Along in 2014, both of which weathered tepid reviews to outperform their box office expectations. The world saw Hart as an overnight success — but Black folks remembered his unrelenting and public grind, and loved him for it.
My love for humanity drives me. The politics to me are the means to an end, not an end in itself. I want to be a part of creating that world where every person — every child, man, and woman, or a person who does not identify with a gender — feels like they’re important, that they have value. They feel like they are respected, and they have a voice. That’s the kind of world I want to create.
There was a time when Hart was one of the most likable men in Hollywood. He had a relatively unanimous approval rating (more on that later) because we’d seen him grind from the beginning. We’d seen him steal a scene in The 40-Year-Old Virgin and become one of those “isn’t that the guy from…” bit players, racking up low-budget, straight-to-TV movies, hidden Netflix duds, and Soul Plane. We saw him do stand-up in dingy bars with grainy video quality and spotty audio. For the most part, we assumed Hart would just be a comedian we’d laugh at when we saw him, and eventually wonder where he’d went when his career inevitably petered off.
The incident, which trended on Twitter, was just the latest in a seemingly nonstop barrage of avoidable poor public relations decisions from one of the world’s biggest stars.
And it’s like what my grandmother said: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. We have an infrastructure in place that has been proven to work. This election cycle, out of all the years that I’ve worked in Georgia, I’ve never seen the kind of collaborative, collective work around civic engagement and getting people out to vote like I saw this year. There has also been a major demographic shift in the South, and that does change the political ideology of the state, because you have a larger pool of voters who are more aligned to progressive ideas.
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Any scrappy underdog appeal Hart still had was gone. What we saw instead were private jets, waving money in people’s faces, and a refusal to truly reckon with his wrongs. Hart was a brand, all right — a brand that was hurting people and had little interest in doing better.
Bolstering that appeal was the belief that Hart did all of it while bringing along his day-ones: the Plastic Cup Boyz, a group of comedians, writers, childhood friends, and trainers who have grown in fame as Hart has amplified their profiles. Hart’s loyalty to his homies was part of his charm, and a sign of good character that we want to see succeed. (Perversely, we value a man’s loyalty to other men over his loyalty to his partner — like his first wife, Torrei, who he came into the business with only to leave as his level of fame rose.) So by the time his buddy movies with The Rock started popping up and Jumanji in 2017 asserted Hart as an undeniable Hollywood cash cow, he’d managed to thread the needle of oversaturating every market possible (why is Hart on Inside the NBA? Who cares!) while managing to hold on to a grassroots fan base that had rocked with him since Paper Soldiers.