Posted on 12/15/2013 1:40:22 PM PST by i88schwartz
STEPHEN A. SMITH: I have profound respect for the iconic figure that is Jim Brown, what he's done in the sports world, the political conscience that is attached to him. But what he said, I deem inappropriate. I thought it was wrong, and more importantly, I thought it highlighted something, Skip, that I told you many, many years ago -- I mean many shows ago. Actually, not that many shows ago.
When it comes to the African-American community, you have a plethora of individuals. For example, the black population hasn't given the Republican Party more than 15% of its vote since 1964. And anybody who is deemed a black conservative, I am not one of them -- I'm a registered Independent, just to get that out of the way -- but those that I know who are black conservatives are considered pariahs and are ostracized in our communities and it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. MORE...
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If you realize that the most Racist community in the USA is the Black Community, then it makes perfect sense.
what did jim brown say?
He said some things about Kobe Bryant since he didnt grow up in Philly, he grew up in Italy, that he was not “ Really black” because he did not grow up in the black community til later on in his life
It’s a form of tribalism: a pack instict which liberals say they’ve “moved beyond”. If you’re not one of them, you lose your minority status and your value as a human being. You’re now part of the enemy, the rivaling tribe and any action against you is justified. For now, that mostly includes slander.
I’m confused, Steven A. Smith was calm.
It’s a profound truth, but slavery has not ended.
For many years, I stated that it had. And in the conventional sense it did end. Digging deeper, there is another truth needing to be understood.
There is a segment of the African American society, that needs slavery to exist. To these people, slavery does still exist. They blame the problems in their life on the government, White people, the local Korean food mart owner, or anyone else they can, so as to not have to take ownership of their own failed lives.
This self-induced slavery starts for many African Americans as they move off toward school. The sweet little guys who were friendly with everyone, soon are told why they shouldn’t be so friendly to ‘some people.’ And then that is accepted, becomes part of their belief system, and the downward spiral bursts forth from there.
No need to study, the man will keep you down. No need to better yourself, no guys stick around to support a family anyway. No need to support yourself, because welfare has become the accepted payback for what was done to the African Americans during slavery and beyond. Besides, some guys are making a bundle out of drugs and crime.
And then when you’ve taken a pass on bettering yourself when you were a kid, you can’t support yourself in a normal sense ever. Many think sports or music will bring them the riches. It seldom does. Most folks are average, and only the above average can make it in sports or music, sometimes not even then.
So they settle on crime as a way of life. They gun each other down. They kill and are killed. They hate and don’t have the slightest idea that those they hate, generally want nothing less for them than to be successful, but they can’t do it.
The slaves of today must incorporate a work ethic into their daily lives early on, because nobody can make them successful. Only they can do it.
Of course that’s unless you are one in hundreds of millions of African Americans that get picked out of the group early on, and are gifted with the presidency despite never having done anything whatsoever to earn it on their own.
And even in this, success is elusive, because an empty vessel cannot deliver fine wine unless you really are a god, and don’t just think of yourself as one.
It’s not about skin color, its about ideology
Stephen A Smith sometimes goes on Mark Levin’s show and unlike his ESPN rants, he’s actually calm in explaining conservative concepts. Stephen stated on the show that he also listens to Limbaugh which should have gotten him fired from obama ass-kissing ESPN.
Not exactly. More that Kobe wasn’t raised in America so Kobe doesn’t think like an American.
Sounds a lot like a certain major political figure, IMO.
You didn't read it LOUD enough.
};^)
Interesting, thanks for the heads up.
My previous post was meant to be fun, just in case it seemed otherwise.
I’m glad he stood up and said what he did. He’ll take some serious crap for it.
My bad. :)
I googled him. He was born in Philly, lived in Italy with his family from the age of 6 until 13, spending summers in the US. Went to hs in the US. I’d say the guy is pretty American, just because he had a broader life experience than most people doesn’t mean he didn’t also have a “typical” American life experience.
What would one say about a person whose parents were in the military?
no Kobe Bryant fan, but this seems a silly thing to criticize him about and no, I don’t see him as comparable to Obama. As far as I know Kobe Bryant isn’t trying to destroy America.
Remember Chris Broussard who came out as Christian said he didn’t believe in gays with the Jason Collins issue? He’s another black reporter from ESPN who doesn’t play the ESPN lefty line and was also on Levin’s show.
It’s OK.
I’m not a particular fan of Jim Brown either.
The 800-word letter to Holmgren used the word “monkey” multiple times, depicting how Brown feels he is being viewed by the team president. The nine-time Pro Bowler concluded his letter with references to a purported slave owner who attempted to pit slaves against one another, a folk-type African-American dance and insinuated that he must stand up for himself while defending his manhood.
“There’s only one thing that I control in life, and that’s being a man,” concluded Brown. ”So let me end with a little humor, because as you say, one monkey don’t stop the show, and as I say “Willie Lynch missed a few of us”, and there will be no Buck Dancing.”
But for all Brown’s good deeds and athletic prowess, there appears to be a dark side to him as well. He has been frequently accused of violent crimes, primarily toward women.
An 18-year-old accused Brown of forcing her to have sex after giving her whisky, but a jury found him innocent of assault and battery in the 10-day trial in 1965. He was accused of throwing his girlfriend from a balcony in 1968, but when the 22-year-old woman refused to name Brown as her assailant, the charge of assault with intent to murder was dropped. He was fined $300 for resisting a deputy.
Brown was acquitted of assaulting a man after a traffic accident in 1969. He was fined $500 and spent a day in jail after beating up a golfing partner in 1978. He was charged with rape, sexual battery and assault in 1985, but the charges were dropped when the 33-year-old woman gave inconsistent testimony.
The next year, he was arrested for allegedly beating his fiancée after accusing her of flirting. He spent three hours in jail, but three days later the 21-year-old woman said she didn’t want to prosecute.
In October 1999, Brown was convicted in Los Angeles of smashing the window of his 25-year-old wife Monique’s car, but was acquitted of making terrorist threats against her. The judge sentenced him to three years’ probation, stripped him of his driver’s license for a year, fined him $1,700 to be paid to a battered woman’s shelter and a domestic abuse fund, and ordered him to attend special counseling for domestic batterers.
When Brown refused counseling, he was given a six-month sentence. He was released from jail in Ventura County (California) in July 2002 after serving less than four months.
http://espn.go.com/classic/biography/s/Brown_Jim.html
You got it. They hate all non-blacks and black conservatives. (Yes, white libs, they hate you, too. All you are good for is getting them handouts. Just take a walk in the hood and see how it goes.) That’s a lot of people.
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