Dear Jussie Smollett,

I would like to start off with how absolutely disgusted I am about this whole situation that you have caused from what it seems like to just get some publicity for your career.

I, like many others in the LGBTQ+ community, believe every word you said about your attack.

We believed you when you said you were attacked. We believed you when you said they were yelling homophobic and racist slurs at you. We believed you when you said your attackers poured bleach on you. We believed you when you said your attackers put a noose around you. We believed you. Personally, I believed you so much that I wrote about my feelings toward that whole situation in my article "This Is The Truth About Being Gay in 2019" talking about attacks like your alleged one in our community.

Hate crime and hate attacks like these happen all of the time in the LGBTQ+, African American, and many other communities all over the United States and the world. We are attacked and harassed for our sexuality. We are attacked and harassed for the color of our skin. You should know that Jussie, as a gay black man living in the United States so why would you take advantage of that situation. I'm so disappointed.

From now on, you have made it hard for people in our community who are actually experiencing hate attacks and hate crimes. People won't believe us. They will think we are just trying to get attention and publicity with the climate that we are living in the United States in 2019. So many cases and stories will be brushed off because of you. You have created an absolute mess for so many vulnerable communities around this country for your own personal gain. Just because you aren't satisfied with your career and salary on your TV show doesn't mean you have create a hoax attack for a publicity stunt. That is so ignorant and absolutely disgusted.

I just don't get it. I still can't believe that you would do something like this. I can't believe I and many other people all over the country fell for something like this. I hope you get whatever is coming for you because you deserved it.