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<\/a><\/p>\nBy Stacy M. Brown<\/strong> Stephen A. Smith has once again aimed at the very people whose shoulders he stands upon. With all the fervor of a man auditioning for validation from the same establishment that despises his skin, Smith unleashed his latest tirade \u2014 not against Donald Trump or Russell Vought or Stephen Miller, the architects of a modern-day apartheid disguised as governance \u2014 but against a Black woman who dares to speak truth to power. During an episode of his SiriusXM show, Smith took issue with Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett\u2019s unapologetic criticism of Trump, asking whether her style of confrontation \u201chelps her district.\u201d His words echoed with the same hollow judgment that America has always hurled at outspoken Black women \u2014 to be quieter, gentler, and deferential while white men burn the country to ash.<\/p>\n The outrage was swift. Rep. Crockett never mentioned Smith by name. She didn\u2019t need to. Her retweets of Tamika Mallory and others said it all. \u201cIt\u2019s no longer a difference of opinion,\u201d Mallory wrote. \u201cStephen A. Smith\u2019s actions are intentional. In this climate, especially, it\u2019s dangerous. Just wondering if you all plan to do him like you did the NFL about Colin? Or are we still watching his commentary on the wake-up?\u201d<\/p>\n Across social media, Black America had seen enough. Don Salmon wrote, \u201cStephen A. Smith is a foot soldier for white supremacists. He\u2019s a propaganda mouthpiece. I have never seen the man use his platform to condemn Trump for abusing Black women, but he has a problem with Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, who is not afraid to call out Trump. He\u2019s not a political scientist or expert in politics. He should stick to sports \u2014 he\u2019s done a terrible job with it anyway.\u201d Jason Todd added, \u201cStephen A. Smith\u2019s alter ego, \u2018Step-N-Fetch-It A. Smith,\u2019 emerges once again, this time to criticize Jasmine Crockett.\u201d Another user, The Notorious JTB, wrote, \u201cStephen A. Smith went after Jasmine Crockett and got dragged into the dirt for it. Loud doesn\u2019t mean smart. He\u2019s finally learning that coming for powerful Black women never ends well.\u201d<\/p>\n And it didn\u2019t end there. Tiffany Cross and Angela Rye, speaking on the Native Land Pod, said Smith has \u201clittle d*** energy\u201d for his obsession with tearing down Black women. Former Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum said Smith needs to \u201cdeal with his Black woman issues,\u201d calling it self-hate. Bakari Sellers added, \u201cI\u2019ve never seen a clip of him where he actually praises a Black woman.\u201d Even Bishop Talbert Swan had smoke for Smith. \u201cStephen A. Smith has NEVER had smoke for Trump, MAGA, Jan 6 insurrectionists, white Christian nationalists, rogue white police officers, racist judges, teachers, politicians \u2014 but Black women?\u201d Swan asked.<\/p>\n Smith\u2019s defenders claim he\u2019s just expressing an opinion, that his critics are trying to \u201ccancel\u201d him. But his own words on The Hill\u2019s reporting expose the deeper rot. \u201cI will never succumb to somebody intimidating and trying to rally folks against me to quell what I have to say,\u201d he said. \u201cBump that. I ain\u2019t built that way.\u201d What he didn\u2019t say \u2014 what he never says \u2014 is anything that risks offending the architects of America\u2019s new Jim Crow. He had no such courage when Trump called Haiti and African nations \u201cs***hole countries.\u201d None when police bullets tore through unarmed Black men and women. None when Russell Vought drafted Project 2025 \u2014 a blueprint for stripping Black and poor Americans of healthcare, food, and human dignity. He was silent when white nationalists marched through Charlottesville and when insurrectionists smeared feces on the walls of the U.S. Capitol. But let a Black woman raise her voice, and suddenly Stephen A. Smith finds his thunder.<\/p>\n The irony is biblical. This is the same man who called LeBron James \u201cselfish\u201d for defending his community, who questioned Serena Williams\u2019s integrity, and who mocked Colin Kaepernick\u2019s sacrifice. As one post noted, \u201cStephen A. Smith has spent the last year monetizing tearing down the best of the Black community. LeBron, a pillar of excellence, has devoted his life to tearing him down. Now he\u2019s moved on to Jasmine Crockett, another pillar of excellence? He\u2019s a pathetic little man.\u201d For most in Black America, this is moral treason. The House Negro, Malcolm X warned, \u201cloves his master more than he loves himself.\u201d Smith has perfected that performance for the modern age \u2014 a loud voice shouting in the service of power, pretending to speak for us while kneeling at the feet of those who despise us.<\/p>\n And so, Crockett, Mallory, Rye, and Cross did what our mothers and grandmothers have always done \u2014 they answered back, not with silence or submission, but with a clarity that cuts through centuries of contempt. What Stephen A. Smith represents is not strength. It is surrender. It is the echo of the plantation, dressed up in a tailored suit and broadcast from a million-dollar studio. The saddest thing is that he believes the applause he earns from white America is respect, when in truth, it is mockery. The revolution that men like him fear has already begun. It is being led by women like Jasmine Crockett, who do not whisper, who do not bow, who will not apologize for being loud in a world built to silence them.<\/p>\n
Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent<\/p>\n