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.
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!’”
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:
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:
Mr. Smith been speaking the truth.
Black on black crime is an important but different discussion an it doesn’t justify what is done by police with the consent of society at large. Practice peace
Man Talib haaates white folks every time he is on tv/radio, so angry all the time.
nah you phukin bitch i was just at a talib concert and im white as hell and he gave me dap. he hates racist white people not real white people ya square so quit talking out of your ass, k?
Since when did you consider Stephen Smith to be white?
I say the same outrage should be displayed when innocent black lives get taken away by blacks in the black community as when cops do it. It’s like we’ve become numb to blacks killing blacks. Let 10 people die in Chicago this weekend and the black community just acts like it’s the norm. Why is that? Make a stink the same way if a cop kills a black person.
Don’t make the the awareness exclusive.
Well, are you going to make the same stink when a white person kills another white person like you will when a terrorist does it? Just asking because the percentages of white-on-white crime and black-on-black crime and Hispanic-on-Hispanic crime, etc. are all pretty much synonymous. This is about people who are supposed to be in authority and upholding the law abusing power against minorities, but I guess if they start beating Becky and Todd from the burbs and killing them, then we’ll get some action around this bitch from dummies parroting those well, what about black on black crime fools.
@silent_partner, white on white crime is nowhere near the rate of black on black crime, bruh. i can pull up FBI statistics if you want. and just because the media doesn’t report 24/7 on white people getting killed by cops doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. and the cops get off scott free. as long as there is so much black on black crime, the cops WILL continue to exercise more caution when dealing with black people. doesn’t that seem like common sense?
Stephen Smith is an uncle tom
So telling black people that their actions aren’t up to par and that they could be doing better instead of blaming everything on white people 24/7 Is equivalent to siding with the oppressor now? No, my friend, people who tell black people they are powerless to change anything, but white people have all the power, which is what most black people believe nowadays, THAT is siding with the oppressor. Smith is letting black people know they should be responsible for themselves, he is offering actual solutions instead of playing the blame game 24/7. Funny how stupid people twist that into being an uncle Tom.
@Gnucca ay cuz look, we done seen the white man chase a black unarmed man and shoot him and then plant evidence on the scene to make it look like it was self defence. We seen the white man choke a black man even when he crying out for breath. Fact is, white police look at us as target practice, yes we kil each other but so does every race but when the evidence of race killings is so overwhelming you can’t turn a blind eye. Stop brown nosing the white folk nigga
They don’t look at you as target practice. Grow up. They don’t shoot when they don’t feel threatened, and they feel threatened because on average blacks have a higher violent crime rate. It’s not just looking minorities for recreation, that is such a shallow outlook.
@gnucca_pleez,
I guess 85% of white murders committed by other white people from a much larger population is nowhere near the black on black murder rate, lol. So go get those statistics for us because I know them, otherwise the Discovery Channel wouldn’t have a whole channel devoted mainly to white people killing other white people. Therefore, your point on bringing up something unrelated to authority figures abusing their power to kill minorities is? You might want to claim ignorance because otherwise you don’t have a point since 85% of white murders being committed by other whites is “nowhere near the black on black crime rate” in your bizarro alternate world.
Oh, and that’s over like a 30 year sample, not a cherry picked year or 2. Black on black murders were 93% in that same time frame. That’s a real big difference, that whole 7%, especially when there are way more white murders due to there being way more white people in this country than black people, but keep that Sambo talking point alive. They depend on dummies like you shifting the dialogue off the topic at hand, the police targeting minorities, because I know I’ve never done anything illegal in my life but I’ve had a gun pointed at me in my own home, told why am I out this late just for standing outside talking to some other black men who weren’t “thuggin,” had an old gf of mine who was with me taken out of the car for a simple traffic violation and asked all kinds of inappropriate sexual questions because we were an interracial couple, had a gun pointed at me on another occasion before the cop ever said a word to me because I was pulled over in the old days when you had to use a map to look for directions, and that’s just the top few in my life where there are many more I could give. Hey, but you keep telling us about how it’s all about black on black crime instead, partner. I’ll keep calling them out for their bullshit.
I was saying there are far more black murderers than white ones.both groups predominantly kill within the same race.
Fucka talib. Killer mike u my dude but come on now
All lives matter
gnucca_pleeze,
Well, besides that not being true, that’s not what you said. When I first posted, I said stick to the topic at hand and not black on black crime since white on white crime is just about identical in percentages for a larger sample size, so if I get a diatribe from my news every time a white person gets killed by a terrorist, why shouldn’t minorities get upset when these terrorists on our streets are killing minorities in the streets like dogs, my G? Please answer that because that’s what we’re talking about, because I don’t know any black thugs in the hood killing each other who get their defense funds paid for or get Fox News commentators talking about they weren’t in the wrong when they’re on video beating and killing people. If you know of those instances, let me know. I think most of the thugs in the hood who they’re always bringing up either end up dead themselves or go to prison when they get caught, while these shitheads are getting promotions and told they did nothing wrong by the white media.
Stephen A. Smith > Talib & ‘Killer’ Mike
This bastard instigating like a virgin starved for pussy every time he’s in the news acting like the racism hall monitor and shit LOL ;D
Plus, where is all the support from naggers for another race when a nagger kills a white person? Or a latino? Or an asian? HUH???
Fuck outta here herb LOL @ these spectacle wearing afrocentric nerds ;D
@gnucca_pleeze,
I guess I would have been justified to have my head blown off in my own home when they came in because we “look more violent,” or I would have been justified in having my head blown off in my car because I was stopped somewhere looking for directions because black people are more “violent.” It’s a good thing I didn’t raise my voice too high to justify them shooting me because then I’d have idiots like you telling everybody after I was dead if I had just stayed in my place, I wouldn’t have gotten my head blown off. Thank you. I just wonder what record the white media would have pulled up on me to justify me getting killed since I’ve never been close to being arrested for anything though….but I’m sure they would have thought of something irrelevant for people like you to eat up and victim blame like neighbors heard me and one of my exes yelling at each other 10 years ago, so they knew I was a “thug” or some other lame shit. It’s nice to know that had the cop yelling at me and calling me n*** what you out this late for (and that was a black cop, so this is not a race thing, but rather a pigs out of control thing) or the ones in my home never giving me a reason for why they were there pointing guns at me and my wife, but then trying to smooth it over with some lame mistaken identity explanation later had shot me would have been justified by people like you. It’s not how it’s supposed to work, and we don’t have to take it. This is why dummies always end up victims of serial killers and the dude next door they didn’t know was a killer because they stereotype. It’s also why those percentages of someone in your own race group probably killing you before someone from the opposite one is relevant to this since you seem to believe in those fairy tales about the menacing, more prone to violence black man that somebody put in your head as numbers don’t lie. That’s ignorance at its finest.