Stephen A. Smith
speaker
417 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6 Sep
Stephen A. Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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and and in some people's eyes, costing yourself the president.
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I'm gonna figure out often say the what what the hell is wrong with with with looking at yourself as black first before you're anything else, black before you're American, black before, you know, you're anything else.
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What what's wrong with that?
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When white people say I'm white first, what does that mean?
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Let's stick with black people in this regard.
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When you talk about the slave trade and you say we were enslaved and then traded all over the world, who are those people?
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Black people.
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What I'm trying to say.
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I'm simply saying if you if you are if you identify with that from an historical perspective, this is my and these are my ancestors.
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This is what we endured.
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This is where I come from.
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And that's what I identify with first.
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Because to some degree,
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I'm still feeling some remnants of that even in today's society.
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I'm saying if you identify yourself as black before you identify yourself as American, what you're doing is saying, coming out of the womb, I'm no, I'm gonna be at a disadvantage because I'm in America and I'm gonna have to scratch and claw and have an uphill climb.
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Now, that doesn't mean you give up.
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That doesn't mean you use it as a crutch.
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It doesn't mean that you sit up there and use that as a reason to be lackadaisical and have a defeatist attitude and don't work your way and maneuver your way through that terrain in order to get
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to that point, but it does mean you at least acknowledging that yo, there are historical insidious acts that are associated with this particular nation that I live in.
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And as a result, I recognize the fact that I'm going to have to march forward and it's going to be a uphill climb for me to get to where I'm going.
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