ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith recently addressed the death of Sandra Bland, a Texas woman who was reportedly found dead in her jail cell after being placed into police custody for allegedly assaulting an officer during a traffic stop, according to VladTV.
Taking to Twitter yesterday (July 21), Smith questioned why the #BlackLivesMatter movement was not speaking out when Black-on-Black crimes were taking place.
“Where is all the noise about #BlackLivesMatter when black folks are killing black folks?,” Smith tweeted.
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The television personality also defended Democratic presidential candidate and former Gov. Martin O’Malley for saying “all lives matter,” for which he was booed off stage for this past Saturday at the Netroots Nation Conference.
“There’s nothing wrong when a presidential candidate says ‘All lives Matter!,” Smith wrote on Twitter.
In response, Talib Kweli tweeted, “Unless all lives are not treated like they matter,” adding: “so I guess you show up at funerals and yell out ‘what’s the big deal? Everyone dies!’”
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Taking to Twitter, Killer Mike also weighed in on Smith’s comments, saying, “If ‘all lives mattered’ classism, racism, sexism, homophobia and other isms that we allow to exist wud not.”
Stephen A. Smith, Talib Kweli and Killer Mike’s tweets can be viewed below:
Where is all the noise about #BlackLivesMatter when black folks are killing black folks?
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) July 21, 2015
There's nothing wrong when a presidential candidate says "All lives Matter"!
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) July 21, 2015
I'm a black man. Of course I know #BlackLivesMatter. You can't boo a presidential candidate just b/c he says "all lives matter".
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) July 21, 2015
(No man. No. Don't do this.) RT @stephenasmith: Where is all the noise about #BlackLivesMatter when black folks are killing black folks?
— Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) July 21, 2015
@stephenasmith also #BlackLivesMatter is a direct response to police brutality of POC. We should not say it because poor ppl commit crimes?
— Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) July 21, 2015
@stephenasmith 90% of blacks who kill other blacks get arrested & go to jail. Cops who kill unarmed … http://t.co/autB7ocaU1
— Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) July 21, 2015
(Unless all lives are not treated like they matter) RT @stephenasmith: There's nothing wrong when a candidate says "All lives Matter"!
— Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) July 21, 2015
@stephenasmith so I guess you show up at funerals and yell out "what's the big deal? Everyone dies!"
— Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) July 21, 2015
I Wud love to provide answer face to face RT @idgafsun: " @stephenasmith Where is all the (cont) http://t.co/lDjN6XyQ9H
— Killer Mike (@KillerMike) July 21, 2015
If "all lives mattered" classism, racism, sexism, homophobia and other isms that we allow to exist wud not.
— Killer Mike (@KillerMike) July 22, 2015
Stephen A. Smith also discussed the criticism Martin O’Malley had received on his “Stephen A. Smith Show” on SiriusXM radio, which you can listen to below:
For additional Talib Kweli coverage, watch the following DX Daily:
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