I don’t have any particular love for Stephen A. Smith. I think he’s a loudmouth who loves to hear himself talk. And he just happened to come up in an era where society rewards loudmouth, sometimes unhinged opinion yapping. He’s certainly done well for himself in that arena. So, I guess, good for him. He just always tends to lean where that proverbial wind is blowing.
Having said all of that, I came across a reel yesterday that did stop me and I listened. From his show “Straight Shooter” on SiriusXM, Smith says:
I just wanted to address this subject. And that’s essentially involving the President Donald Trump posting a video depicting, former President Barack Obama and former First Lady, Michelle Obama, as apes. I’m gonna say that again. Depicting the first black president in United States history and the first black first lady in United States history as apes. Monkeys. In the year 2026, that has happened.
Now before I go into it, let me say this. The White House says that it wasn’t the president’s fault. Even though the video has been removed from the president‘s Truth Social account, the guy in the White House, using his administration to tell you he had nothing to do with a post that has his fingerprints, and his smell, and his stench, written all over it. That’s who we’re talking about here. And that same man must be universally condemned for having his platform associated with such an insulting, classless, despicable post that was on his platform for 12 hours. Anybody who doesn’t speak against him on this is complicit. You’re telling us what you think about Black people, plain and simple. There is no way around this. This requires universal condemnation.
Doesn’t mean he’s gonna leave office, but it could mean that we need others in office during the midterm that aren’t necessarily on the right so more checks and balances can take place, and perhaps (dare I say he’ll be a bit more guarded from doing nonsense like this) because again, I believe believe he is guilty of this. Do I have proof? No. But I’ve told y’all on many occasions: If it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it ain’t a damn mongoose. It’s what it is. His behavior, his tendencies, his rhetoric, his petulance, his belligerence all fall in line with what we’re talking about right now. Do you want to be associated with that or not?
That’s a pretty unequivocal statement. I agree with everything he said. But before I/we can applaud him, let’s just see if this hot take sticks for over, say, a week. That proverbial wind has been whipping to and fro pretty hard recently.
