Mo’Nique’s call for a Netflix boycott over the weekend for “gender bias and color bias,” has undoubtedly sparked widespread talk on gender and racial pay disparities. On Tuesday, Jada Pinkett Smith made her stance on Mo’Nique’s statements publicly clear: Mo’Nique is shining light on a “truth.”

Pinkettt Smith took to social media to address the backlash to Mo'Nique’s call for a boycott.

“You don’t have to like Mo’Nique’s approach,” the Girls Trip actress wrote on Facebook.“You don’t have to agree with her boycott but don’t allow all of that to make you blind to the fact that non-white women and impoverished white women are underpaid, underrepresented and undervalued EVERYWHERE by EVERYONE. As a community, we should be supporting the light she is shining on this truth."

In an Instagram video published over the weekend, Oscar winner and comedic veteran Mo’Nique alleged she was offered $500,000 to do a comedy special with Netflix. She pointed out the apparent disparity in her offer compared to comedian Amy Schumer. Schumer, who became the first female comedian to sell out Madison Square Garden, was reportedly offered $11 million for her special, and Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock were both reportedly offered $20 million per special. Not to mention, Mo’Nique pointed out that Schumer reportedly went back and renegotiated for additional pay.

In a follow-up video published Tuesday, Mo'Nique compared box office profits from Almost Christmas, a 2016 movie she starred in, to Schumer’s 2017 movie Snatched. Almost Christmas reportedly domestically grossed more than $42 million, with a production budget of $17 million, as Deadline reported. Snatched
reportedly cost $42 million to produce, according to Variety, with domestic box office numbers reaching $45.9 million.

Pinkett Smith doubled down on her support for Mo’Nique in another Facebook post published Tuesday.

“Here is what’s real… if we can’t sit at the table with our white sisters and acknowledge the painful and difficult history between us then how do we create the authentic camaraderie needed to do the work together that lies ahead?…” she wrote in part.

The actress also stressed the importance of addressing racial biases and “healing that reaches beyond the surface of posing together and spilling P.C. rhetoric in one another's company…”

Do you stand with Mo’Nique? Does Jada have a point? Share your thoughts in the comments below!