The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · 1:11:30
Michael Myers did not kill a Black person on screen until 2002 and was therefore jokingly radicalized by the O.J. trial.
Van Lathan: The argument excludes Nurse Alves because her death is offscreen and imagines 1990s court-TV and late-night coverage changing Michael’s politics.
Van Lathan: Later films’ Black victims are presented as the invented evidence for the transformation.