Stephen A. Smith has strongly pushed back on his critics after he refused to condemn Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones after a photo from The Washington Post surfaced of a 14-year-old Jones witnessing the integration of North Little Rock High School in 1957 from the steps of the school with others harassing the black students trying to enter.
During his Know Mercy podcast, Smith said he can only be called a “sellout” and a racial epithet “so much before you feel compelled to respond”.
“Y’all wanna attack everybody! Why don’t we listen to one another?” Smith asked. “I’m not friends with Candace Owens, I never met her a day in my life. But if you disagree with something she said, tell us what it is and why rather than saying ‘She a sellout!’ That’s easy, why? Let’s educate ourselves. Why would you think that? Why? Argue her facts.
“You want to criticize me and what my positions are, I’m good with that. Y’all tell me why. If you’re right, I’ll say so. You know how hard it is for me to listen to people that have worked in this industry for years with the stuff I know about them, listening to them and their drivel, talking nonsense about me?
“They ain’t do a damn thing to help our community! I put my career on the line everyday fighting for us. And we’re gonna go out like that? Because I don’t agree with y’all position on a still photo from 66 years ago. Really? We better wake up y’all.”
