"THEY TURNED COMMENTS OFF!" Stephen A. Smith EXPOSES Cari Champion & Jemele Hill

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00:00So Carrie Champion called my boy Stephen A a liar, but days later her own story changed.

00:05First listen closely, Carrie starts denying she even called Stephen A, but Stephen A cuts her off before she even

00:10finished the sentence.

00:11Listen closely, you wanted the job for SportsCenter, you wanted to come back?

00:17That is not true Stephen A, I know you lying, that is not true, we are disagreeing right now.

00:24Then we'll disagree.

00:25Because let me tell you, I never call, neither do I my friend.

00:28It's quite clear she was about to say I never called, now watch what she says days later.

00:32There's a worldwide debate now suggesting I wanted Molly's job.

00:36There is no debate, she did not want that job back.

00:39I did not want that job back.

00:41And you guys all know, God bless that man, he can cap, and he can sell it too, you know

00:45what I mean?

00:45I went and looked back and I was like, I probably wanted to gossip.

00:48I probably wanted to be like, what happened?

00:49That's what I was saying, like, you didn't want the job back.

00:51I was like, I didn't want the job, I was calling to gossip.

00:53Wait a minute, hey Carrie, I thought you never called, now you called the gossip.

00:57Both stories can't be true, either you called or you didn't.

01:00You cannot call Stephen A a liar, then admit making the call he mentioned.

01:03First it was, I never called, I never called, I never called.

01:07Now days later, I was calling to gossip, I was calling to gossip, I was calling to gossip.

01:11You called, but only to gossip, that's not clarification, that's a contradiction with a costume change.

01:16Now the reason for the call could be debated, but the call itself, Carrie confirmed it happened.

01:21Stephen A was right about that.

01:22So before calling somebody else a liar, make sure your own story stays the same.

01:29Yeah, we got to talk about it, man, because Stephen A. Smith has been receiving a whole lot of pushback,

01:35you know, from folks because of said interview.

01:40But he's also been receiving a whole lot of support as well.

01:44But here's a little bit of the pushback before we get into some of the support.

01:49Check it out.

01:50I was writing a response, then it got to be way too long, so I figured I'd do a video

01:53response.

01:54So in this comment, you were saying that this is a favor to them, that Stephen A. Smith is going

01:59on this show as a favor to them.

02:00And I'm going to say no.

02:01At the most, I would say is that it was mutually beneficial, but I would argue that he actually benefits

02:06the most from coming on this show.

02:08You all are looking at this from a dollars and cents in a rating situation.

02:13Stephen A. Smith is on ESPN.

02:15He has a larger platform, a larger bullhorn that we all are saying that he uses irresponsibly.

02:21He has, you know, more viewers, obviously, because he's on ESPN.

02:25And he has this mega, crazy, big contract.

02:29But that, to me, is not all that's at play here.

02:32What's also at play here is cultural capital and the community rocking with you and trusting you and things like

02:38that.

02:38At this juncture, Stephen A. Smith is here because there's a disconnect, because the community is pissed at him.

02:44And he knows this.

02:45And I don't care what, how he performs and what all he says on the show.

02:49He cares.

02:51If you don't care about that, then to me, you aren't really part of the community.

02:57Stephen A. Smith cares that people are calling him up, that people are saying that he's not for black people,

03:02that he's attacking black women.

03:03He cares about that.

03:05He has black daughters.

03:06His oldest, who is gorgeous, we've seen her on the show before, on his podcast.

03:10He cares about that.

03:12And so he is here, in some ways, they are giving more to him in this situation, because black women,

03:19we're not mad at Jamil Hill.

03:20We like her.

03:22And so when you platform him in this way, you are sharing with that person the goodwill that you have

03:28with your audience.

03:30So, for example, I'm not going to watch the Stephen A. Smith show, but I'm going to watch it because

03:35it's this platform, and I trust them.

03:38And so that's the benefit he gets there.

03:41I think you all are seeing it as a favor because they get a lot of views from it, but

03:45I don't think they operate off of that.

03:47And that's something that Jamil Hill talks about in the episode, is that for him, everything's about strategy, to keep

03:55his job, to keep his spot on ESPN, and to keep making big bucks.

04:01So he capitulates to do that.

04:02Jamil Hill says, I don't do that.

04:05There are certain things I'm never going to do for a check, or I'm not going to be quiet about

04:10to maintain that.

04:12And so because of that, she has a cultural capital that he does not have.

04:15So he is...

04:19You just can't make this stuff up, man.

04:21None of that made any type of sense whatsoever.

04:26Stephen A. Smith has a bigger platform, so, you know, he's got to capitulate to keep KB.

04:32And Jamil Hill, she don't want to do that.

04:34If Jamil Hill didn't have an audience, she wouldn't be on a podcast talking.

04:39If her audience went to zero, I can guarantee you she wouldn't still be doing it.

04:42So, yes, she does care about keeping her audience.

04:45What are we talking about?

04:48Jamil Hill don't care about having an audience or the views.

04:53That's not how she operates.

04:54Yes, she does.

04:55Because if she wouldn't get any views, if nobody was watching, she would stop.

04:59Guarantee it.

05:02And it is not beneficial or more beneficial for Stephen A. Smith to go on their show than

05:07it is for them to have Stephen A. Smith.

05:11It's more beneficial.

05:13The situation was more beneficial for them than it was for Stephen A. Smith.

05:18They went from basically irrelevant to having a show garner almost a million views.

05:29Out of nowhere.

05:30Right?

05:31When they weren't getting even close to that before.

05:34Not even close.

05:36So, yes.

05:38It does matter.

05:39And it...

05:40Or the views does matter to Jamil Hill and Kerry Champion.

05:45But then also, it was a whole lot more beneficial for them.

05:49Stephen A. Smith's already done it.

05:51He's already there.

05:52Those are two has-beens.

05:54They're has-beens.

05:55Let's just call it what it is.

05:57They both aren't at ESPN anymore.

06:01They both aren't on cable TV anymore.

06:05Okay?

06:06Stephen A. Smith is still there.

06:07Say what you want about Stephen A. Smith.

06:09Disagree with him.

06:10I don't agree with him on everything.

06:11And I've made videos on that.

06:12But he's still on cable TV.

06:15You can still turn on ESPN and guess who you're going to see?

06:19Stephen A. Smith.

06:21Right?

06:22I was going to talk about his hairline.

06:24But, you know, I can't say much about hairlines.

06:30But, hey, you know, let's get into some more of the Stephen A. Smith's support.

06:36Check it out.

06:36We're asking you to have some nuance and we're asking for some benefit of the damn doubt.

06:40Stay who you are.

06:41What is it?

06:42What is it?

06:43What I'm saying is I don't understand.

06:44No one's asking you to change.

06:46What benefit of the doubt have you ever given Stephen A. Smith or any other black man?

06:54What benefit of the damn doubt have you ever given Stephen A. Smith or any other black man?

07:02What is this constant browbeating of black men coming from black women in elite podcast spaces

07:11that think they're the police of the black community?

07:15You can't tell Stephen A. Smith anything.

07:18He's a lot nicer to me because I'd be like, you can't tell me anything.

07:22I don't have to run nothing by you.

07:25You ain't going to run nothing by me.

07:28And all this Stephen A. Smith, you're great.

07:31We need you to.

07:33That's all manipulation.

07:36Buttering you up to do what they want you to do.

07:38They don't think Stephen A. Smith is great.

07:40They don't respect and honor him.

07:43But they realize he's a force and they can't do nothing with him.

07:46So they got to respect him.

07:47So they're trying to manipulate him.

07:49Stephen A. Smith, I hope you're not falling for this shit.

07:52I'm not.

07:53I don't.

07:53Dog, I have been.

07:54I will stand on a mountain for Stephen A.

07:56I don't know the man.

07:57But I've been a fan of his for 20 years.

07:59And I've seen him do so much.

08:01I've seen ESPN get blacker and blacker and blacker because of him.

08:06I've seen ESPN at HBCUs.

08:09All these niggas complaining in the comments.

08:11Have y'all ever done anything for HBCU to help kids go to college?

08:15Shut the fuck up there.

08:16You know why I could talk the way I talk?

08:17I wrote a letter.

08:18I spoke up for black people.

08:20And that changed my life.

08:21I'm on a podcast because I spoke up for black people.

08:23And black people telling me stop talking on the podcast.

08:26Right there, that letter I wrote.

08:27That letter, that's why it's up there.

08:28That letter changed my life.

08:30Guess what?

08:31Every black person thanked me for writing it.

08:33When they got rid of me and me over, not one black person offered me a job or a check.

08:39But guess what?

08:40That's cool.

08:40I got to feed my family.

08:42Put a mic in front of me.

08:43Now I'm feeding my family doing it this way.

08:47But it's like one of those things where we do this to each other and I'm tired of it.

08:51I'm so tired of us.

08:53Like Stephen A. is the biggest black.

08:55He's not the biggest person in media.

08:57He's not the biggest black person.

08:59He's the biggest person in sports media.

09:01We should be celebrating that he's the Michael Jordan of sports media.

09:05But we want him to be what we wanted him to be.

09:08Bro, let me tell you something.

09:09If Michael Jordan was playing today, he won't be as big as he was.

09:12Hell no.

09:13Because Michael Jordan didn't want to get into politics.

09:15He didn't want to get into it.

09:16He just wanted to play basketball.

09:18But they would have been like, no, where you stand?

09:20Democrat, Republican.

09:21Who you vote for?

09:23I live in the South.

09:24We're different down here.

09:26It's different in the South, y'all.

09:27I just want to say that it's very different down here.

09:29We get along with our white folks because they know we got guns, too.

09:33That's real.

09:34And they know you knock on my property and my door, I could blow your head up the same way

09:37you could do it in mine.

09:38And we have respect and reverence and it's cool.

09:41I just hate that.

09:42And Stephen A. is right.

09:43You can't disagree with black women as a black man in society or they will chastise you and call you

09:48all types of names outside of your name.

09:50So he's right.

09:51I just, I'm going to ride with Stephen A. because I've seen it.

09:54And there's one thing, I think he listens to us.

09:57Because I saw him do something recently where he did a video where he said, I just did a deal

10:02to bring all HBCU games to national television.

10:07So who you think I'm going to hire?

10:09Black?

10:10You think I'm going to hire white people at the HBCU?

10:12I'm hiring a number of black people.

10:13Guess who's going to be looking for jobs?

10:15Those same black people who's talking about them.

10:18That's what my problem is.

10:19You will talk about me and then right behind that say, help me, brother.

10:22Brother, don't talk about me.

10:24I'm going to help you anyway, but don't talk about me.

10:26Show me that you, you got to understand the game I'm playing.

10:29So I agree with him.

10:30Yeah.

10:31Yeah, no, I mean, it takes a big heart to shape small minds.

10:34You know what I'm saying?

10:35I love it.

10:36You know, and a lot of times.

10:38It's not like a southern pimp right there.

10:39It takes a big heart to shape minds.

10:40Where do you get that from, bro?

10:42Where do you get that from?

10:42That's real, though.

10:43You know, and, you know, we're in our position for a reason.

10:47I'm not.

10:48It takes a big heart to change small minds.

10:54I like that.

10:55I like that.

10:56And, yeah, listen, I agree with him.

10:58Because it's like, bro, why are you taking a dump on Stephen A. Smith when he's arguably the biggest figure

11:06in sports media?

11:07And he's black!

11:09You know, according to, you know, folks like the Jemele Hills of the world and the Kerry Champions, you know,

11:15black people are so destitute and, you know, the white man this and the white man that.

11:20And yet you have a black man as arguably the biggest personality in sports media.

11:28The biggest.

11:29A guy who just signed a contract, reportedly, of $100 million to get on television and talk about sports.

11:38He's getting paid, allegedly, $100 million to do so.

11:44And that's the guy you want to try to take a dump on?

11:46Really?

11:48Really?

11:52But, as he said, man, as this guy said, you know, on the Ray Daniels podcast, it'll never be enough

12:03for some folks.

12:04It's never enough.

12:06The same people that were talking trash about you will be the same people begging for a handout.

12:11It's the same thing that just happened with the Kerry Champion and the Jemele Hills situation.

12:15They were talking trash about him.

12:18And then once he came on the podcast, you know, they were all nice.

12:23But then as soon as he left again, they were talking trash about him again.

12:26And it's like, bro, he just brought so much viewership to your podcast.

12:30You made more off one video than you've made probably the past six months combined.

12:40You know what I'm saying?

12:41And you want to take a dump on that, man?

12:43It's crazy.

12:44But once again, it'll never be enough for some folks.

12:46And if they can't control what it is that you say and what you do, they don't like you.

12:52They don't like you.

12:53You can't disagree at all.

12:55And when he said that Michael Jordan wouldn't be as big as he was if he were to be playing

13:00today, I agree.

13:03Because Michael Jordan was somebody who didn't want to get into politics.

13:07Who didn't want to dive into that realm.

13:09Like he said, he just wanted to hoop.

13:11He just wanted to play basketball.

13:13And there would be a lot of people, the Cary champions and the Jemele Hills of the world specifically, most

13:19certainly would be some of the people who would have an issue with that.

13:23Oh, well, you better speak out against these Republicans.

13:26You better support these Democrats.

13:28You better do that.

13:31MJ would be sitting there like, bro, I just want to hoop.

13:35That's what I'm hearing.

13:35That's what y'all pay me to do is to play basketball.

13:39I just want to play basketball.

13:42I'm good at it.

13:44This is what y'all come to the stadium, to the arenas and pay these exorbit prices for these tickets.

13:50Y'all pay to see me hoop.

13:52That's what I want to do.

13:53I don't want to have these discussions.

13:55I don't want to talk about that.

13:56I don't want to talk about this.

13:57I don't want to do some type of sit-down interview with them because they in some politics.

14:02I don't want to sit down with the Obamas and do an interview.

14:05I don't.

14:05I just want to hoop.

14:08And people like the Cary champions and the Jemele Hills of the world would crucify that man because he said

14:16something like that.

14:17I just want to play basketball.

14:20And it's crazy.

14:22It's crazy.

14:24But anyway, y'all get into the comments.

14:27Let me know your thoughts and your opinions.

14:29If you agree, if you disagree, why or why not?

14:31Let me know.

14:32Peace and love.

14:33I'm out.

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