Don’t let anyone tell you the Jussie Smollett trial, which opened Monday is overblown, prosecutorial overreach, shouldn’t be happening or doesn’t matter.

It matters. A lot.

As does the way Smollett’s claims were treated by the media.

No matter how outlandish his story was — and it was a whopper — the mainstream media and Hollywood’s social justice warriors lapped it up as proof of America’s intractable racism and homophobia.

Yet as we soon learned, Smollett, who is black and gay, staged the attack to get a raise on his soon-to-be-cancelled TV show “Empire.”

Only Dave Chappelle expertly vivisected Smollett’s story, contrasting Hollywood’s immediate outrage with the African-American community’s silence in his 2019 Netflix special “Sticks & Stones”:

“What they didn’t understand is that we were supporting him with our silence. . . . Because we understood.......