Actress Janet Hubert is much admired as the lovely, intelligent, and sassy Aunt Viv from the pilot of "The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air" to her untimely departure from the show in 1993 caused by the star Will Smith,alleging that she was a "difficult actress to work with". However, because of that 23 year departure,she had made a point to harshly ridicule with Will Smith's wife ,actress Jada Pinkett Smith on boycotting the Oscars this year due to the lack of recognition and nomination of African-American, Latino and female directors, film crews,black film studios who have in the past made film outside the norm of catering the minority audiences and the actors and actresses who played extraordinary roles in film and TV that are not stereotypical or racist minded roles by Hollywood standard. Ms.Hubert used her personal vendetta to attack Mrs.Pinkett-Smith because of her husband's past action towards her which lead to her firing from the now-syndicated groundbreaking 90's show. VH-1,MTV,and BET are currently airing all of the show's episodes starting from the premiere in September of 1990-May of 1993 and until Ms. Hubert apologizes to Ms. Smith for her comments and she is currently back on the Hollywood or BlackStar scene, this petition calls for those channels to exclude all episodes featuring Ms. Hubert. People of color need to stand with others when there's a call to action and Ms.Hubert and Ms.Goldberg have proven to their community that not involved no more.
Dear Executives at BET,MTV,and VH1,and NBC
We,the African-American viewers,strongly feel that while Actress Janet Hubert was right in her comments regarding the Oscars boycott,we also feel that she was very vindictive, petty and offensive in her view when she targeted her former co-star Will Smith's wife,Jada due to in part of a still-growing animosity thowards the actor, Will Smith when she was dismissed from the show groundbreaking 90's TV series "the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air " in which she famously played fan-favorite mother and aunt to Will's ficitional character,Aunt Vivian Banks. The viewing audiences of her show wants you (the executives of these stations) want you to pull all episodes featuring Ms.Hubert off the air until she has issued an formal apology to Ms.Smith and others and to her publi.When she does this, we will repetition the executives to reissue the episodes back onto the air. Ms.Hubert was offensive and demending to Ms.Smith. We also want Mr.Williard Smith to issue an apology to Ms.Hubert for falsely accusing Ms.Hubert for what he called at the time "very diffcult and outrageous"during the time of her pregnancy in 1993 on the air on NBC during the "Today" show. He caused Ms. Hubert to be ungainful employed to a higher paying acting roles on television and on film that she deserved and she was blackballed. She did not deserve this but she and Mr.Smith need to held accountable for their actions and resolve their past issues and set a date for a reunion for the cast and crew of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" to be broadcasted on NBC this fall. Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Young Urban Viewers of America
