Former CNN host Don Lemon feels that the one rationale for Stephen A. Smith’s protection of the ICE agent who shot Renee Good is that he’s making an attempt to “cozy as much as white folks.”
Lemon, who apparently has by no means watched ESPN if he thinks that cozying as much as white folks occurs there, accused Smith of calling the taking pictures “justified” as a ploy to get “cash.”
“I attempt to not criticize, particularly Black males, or simply Black folks typically, , as a result of we get a lot sh*t. The principles are completely different for us,” Lemon started. “However Stephen A. Smith goes off and talks about sh*t that he has no concept about.”
Lemon continued, “He simply will get on these like White boy, right-wing podcasts or his personal present and simply goes off about Black folks and issues that for which he has no clue.”
The previous CNN host added, “It’s simply surprising to me, this kind of cozying as much as White folks. And it’s gotta be for the cash.”
Lemon then mused about how a lot cash he may make as a black conservative journalist.
“If I grew to become a Black conservative, I’d be richhhhh!” Lemon exclaimed. “Like a gazillionaire.”
Stephen A. Smith is richly compensated, for positive. Although his eight-figure contract is owed to his sports activities hot-takes, not a lot his speaking politics.
Lemon’s criticism of Smith stems from the ESPN talker’s feedback earlier within the week when he referred to as the actions of the ICE agent who shot and killed anti-ICE protester Renee Good, “utterly justified.”
Nevertheless, Smith additionally mentioned the officer may have shot Good’s tires as an alternative of taking pictures her.
“I noticed the video on quite a few events and, seeing what transpired, from a lawful perspective because it pertains to a legislation enforcement official, don’t count on him to be prosecuted,” Smith defined. “He was utterly justified. From a humanitarian perspective, nevertheless, why did it’s a must to do this? If you happen to may transfer out the way in which, meaning you possibly can have shot the tires. Meaning you possibly can have gotten her a couple of toes away after you shot the tires; and should you have been unsuccessful in doing that, you possibly can have gotten her down the street. You didn’t have to try this. She wasn’t driving down the street, coming at you 90 miles an hour. She was parked in the midst of the road, and slightly than get out the automobile, she wrongfully tried to drive off and wrongfully disregarded legislation enforcement official — which is precisely what ICE is — and because of this, misplaced her life due to it.”
Lemon continued his scathing criticism of the ESPN talker by saying that Smith’s “inventory and commerce” had moved from sports activities to bashing black folks.
Each Good and the ICE officer who shot her, are white. So it’s unclear why he sees the problem as racial. Neither is Smith ingratiating himself together with his ESPN colleagues by defending ICE officers, because the overwhelming majority of them are liberal.
Then once more, making sense was by no means Lemon’s sturdy swimsuit.
