7.21.2015 – News – Mark Tapson
ESPN commentor Stephen A. Smith slammed the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter and his show Tuesday, as Politistick reports.
Smith, a man who has never been afraid to go against the grain of the black Democrat narrative, was commenting upon the controversy about Martin O’Malley being shouted down by Black Lives Matter protesters who were outraged that the Democrat presidential candidate asserted that “all lives matter.” That wasn’t an acceptable stance to the protesters.
Smith expressed his irritation on Twitter, calling out the Black Lives Matter movement for their hypocritical silence regarding black-on-black crimes in Democrat Party-controlled cities:
On The Stephen A. Smith Show, he began, “Let me preface my comments by saying I am fully aware of the fact that no one white can say what I’m about to say. But damn it, I’m going to say it!”
Democrat presidential candidate Martin O’Malley apologized on Saturday. Ladies and gentlemen, guess why he apologized? Because during a discussion in front of an abundance of African-Americans, he said ‘all lives matter’ as opposed to ‘black lives matter.’
I’ve got two points to make. What the hell is he supposed to say? The next thing you know, we’re going to make him say that only black lives matter? All lives do matter!
At a Vanderbilt University symposium in March of this year, Smith raised some eyebrows by advising blacks to vote Republican at least once in their lives:
What I dream is that for one election, just one, every black person in America vote Republican. Because from what I’ve read, and I’m open to correction, but from what I’ve read, Barry Goldwater is going against Lyndon B. Johnson. He’s your Republican candidate. He is completely against the Civil Rights Movement. Lyndon B. Johnson was in favor of it.
What happens is, he wins office, Barry Goldwater loses office, but there was a senate, a Republican senate, that pushed the votes to the president’s desk. It was the Democrats who were against Civil Rights legislation. So because President Lyndon B. Johnson was a Democrat, black America assumed the Democrats were for it.
Smith added,
Black folks in America are telling one party, “We don’t give a damn about you.” They’re telling the other party “You’ve got our vote.” Therefore, you have labeled yourself “disenfranchised” because one party knows they’ve got you under their thumb. The other party knows they’ll never get you and nobody comes to address your interest.