ESPN Host Stephen A. Smith Is Fed Up with
Silence About Black-on-Black Gun Crime
PJ Media,
by
Gwendolyn Sims
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/3/2023 4:54:38 AM
The outspoken host of ESPN’s “First Take” and “The Stephen A. Smith Show” podcast is fed up with black-on-black crime and the silence that surrounds it. This week Smith said during his eponymous podcast that he “had no choice” but to talk about it. Lamenting the high number of shootings in Chicago over the long Memorial Day Weekend, Smith had a question for the black community: “When are we going to look at ourselves when it comes to black people being killed in the streets of America?”Smith is right to be angry. Over the long holiday weekend, fifty-three Americans were indeed shot in Chicago alone.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PChristopher 6/3/2023 5:02:27 AM (No. 1483457)
Finally someone said it!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 6/3/2023 5:49:01 AM (No. 1483461)
I will broaden it - Stephen A. Smith should be fed up with the silence about crime, period.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mifla 6/3/2023 6:20:15 AM (No. 1483467)
Why take responsibility when you can be a victim? It is so much easier.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/3/2023 6:52:33 AM (No. 1483481)
The only reason Smith may get away with saying this is because he is black. If a white person from ESPN had said this he would be gone ---like Howard Cosell.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 6/3/2023 6:54:42 AM (No. 1483483)
The usual sturm und drang from the usual suspects. It is all mere words, useless palavering and bloviating, without a single suggestion as to what to do or how to stop the violence. "Gun violence," is the usual semantic dodge, as if the guns magically incarnate themselves and begin to pump lead into victims without human involvement. It is NOT "gun violence," you see; it is negro violence. It is the violence of the unrestrained id and ego of the black sub-class that inhabits the underworld of black slums and the pusillanimous white response to it that encourages and facilitates more and more of the same. I want to see and hear talking heads like Smith demand investigation, prosecution and punishment for the ACTUAL PERPETRATORS of the violence instead of the usual pabulum of "gun control," which is code for restricting the means of self-defense of law-abiding people of ALL skin tones and ethnicities. I shall not hold my breath while that awaits. It is so obvious that these "thought leaders" don't really care about who is being shot, because they refuse to name the shooters. About 90% of all such violence is perpetrated by black shooters, but that never, ever leads to the next step of taking those black shooters our of society by means of the criminal justice system. Oh, no; all we hear abut on that score is the terrible injustice of incarcerating all those wonderful, innocent black perps in the name of "racial equity." I for one am happy to stand aside in my all white neighborhood where the last time anybody shot anybody is so far removed that we have no memory of it. Let the shooters continue shooting their same-skinned neighbors. It is a self-correcting problem.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Krause 6/3/2023 7:13:53 AM (No. 1483496)
Isn't the answer to 'defund the police?'
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
philsner 6/3/2023 7:29:55 AM (No. 1483510)
White people caused it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 6/3/2023 7:35:03 AM (No. 1483514)
#5, you are so right. And they never show the grieving mothers, terrified sisters, confused brothers.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ControlFreak 6/3/2023 8:42:24 AM (No. 1483566)
It might mean something to me if Stephen A. weren’t ALWAYS yelling about everything. I cannot tolerate the man. When he comes on ESPN, I grab the remote.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
czechlist 6/3/2023 9:43:11 AM (No. 1483623)
Went on line and read my local news reports this morning and I didn't have to scroll to see the perp's photos as the names identified the usual suspects.
Of course the race grifters and guilt ridden (?) whites will blame poverty for the crimes.
Q: Are there no poor other than b lacks?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Namma 6/3/2023 9:53:59 AM (No. 1483632)
I thought black lives matter!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 6/3/2023 10:07:20 AM (No. 1483641)
The hard fact that well over half of all violent crime is done by a 3% racial subset of the population shows an extremely serious problem in that racial subset.
All blacks make up about 12% of the population. Black males make up, therefore, around 6% of the population. Apparently black males under about 10-15 years old are rarely perpetrators of violent crimes, and police friends and a federal prosecutor friend tell me that after about age 50-55 criminals greatly decrease their propensity of violence. So, we have black males between about 16 and 45 who are doing about 2/3 of all violent crime, known by police officers as "standard description number 1" because police officers know this from just working the job. When the overwhelming majority of the time the description of the perp that comes on the radio is "black male, age 25 to 30" day after day, you can't help but notice.
But to notice this and TALK about it publicly "is racist". Actually, no it is FACTUAL and some group of the perpetually offended not liking it does nothing to change the FACTS.
Blacks have a very, very serious cultural violence problem, and the victims of this vicious "culture" are mostly black, also. Whites have tried for a century to control this by policing and jailing the violent offenders. This has resulted in about 50% of black males having prison records, according to some media reports. And yet, 20 to 50 "people" are shot in Chicago every weekend - the overwhelming majority blacks shot by other blacks.
But, it is racist to notice.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/3/2023 10:39:12 AM (No. 1483670)
HE'll be Cancelled in 3...2...1...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Grateful 6/3/2023 10:53:15 AM (No. 1483691)
Stephen who?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
jalo1951 6/3/2023 11:26:18 AM (No. 1483719)
The biggest threat to a black person is another black person and we all know it. Also most of these shoplifting and other such episodes are black people. Like it or not black people are their own worst enemy. Only they can change it.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 6/3/2023 11:45:48 AM (No. 1483739)
Nothing will happen until every black person in America realizes that THEY are the problem.
As Jesse Jackson once said from the pulpit of his church: “Nobody’s gonna save us from us, but us.”
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To say nothing of Black on White and Black on Asian crime.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/4/2023 12:26:31 AM (No. 1484197)
I agree with #5, but I also must caution against 'painting with too broad a brush'.
In my neck of the woods there are a lot of black people, and most of them are decent, hardworking folks, the kind I want to have for neighbors.
From what I can see, the problem is in those areas and groups where traditional American culture has been displaced by Urban Thug Culture. This culture is largely -but not completely, black- but there are a great many black people who are NOT in it.
Please do not smear the good people with the tar brush that is properly applied to the Thugs!
I note that the Leftist Media refuses to recognize the Thug problem.
What the Media labels 'Gun Violence' is usually Black Thug violence.
What the Media calls 'Anti-Asian Hate Crime' is usually Black Thugs beating up Asians.
The ONLY time that the Media mentions 'Black' is when a white cop shoots a black perp, and the Media words the incident in such a way that they try to make the white cop to be 'RAAAAACCCCIIISSSST'.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
tootall 6/4/2023 10:24:06 AM (No. 1484359)
It's happening!
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