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DLHS Hour 2 | Stephen A. Smith says racism is not as bad as the left claims · The D.L. Hughley Show

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  Speaker 1: It is the dal Can we show your twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six edition? So Steven A. Smith says this, Does.
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  Speaker 2: You worry about racism if he ran for president?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: I know it exists.
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  Speaker 4: I know that you can't escape it, but I do
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  Speaker 4: not believe it is as prevalent as some on the
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  Speaker 4: left would like us to believe.
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  Speaker 1: Do you agree, Skim? What do you think you, Stephen A.
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  Speaker 5: Smith Man, Come on, man, that in this particular situation,
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  Speaker 5: he's way off base this administration. Yeah, you already talked
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  Speaker 5: about depicting the Obamas as apes. You already asked our
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  Speaker 5: Philadelphia affiliates. We all see they're taking down the monuments
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  Speaker 5: any reference to slavery. They taking down all the monuments.
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  Speaker 5: You see. He's moving pictures and monuments and taking Martin
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  Speaker 5: Luther King's statues out of certain rooms in the White House.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, man, the man that shot MegaR evers, they
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  Speaker 6: took racist out of his title. Yeah, and that he
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  Speaker 6: was he was proud to be a racist when he
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  Speaker 6: shot MegaR.
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  Speaker 5: If you are KKK member and not considered the racist,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what it is. I mean, that's the
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  Speaker 5: that's the description the epitome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you signed up for yea. But but I think
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  Speaker 1: Stephen A.
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  Speaker 6: Errs on their side to willfully like to well, he
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  Speaker 6: should just come out and say he's the right, he's
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  Speaker 6: a right winger.
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  Speaker 1: He's just saying it because it's these arguments are this
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  Speaker 1: in general, we.
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  Speaker 6: Show whatever strides we've made, uh, socially and from a
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  Speaker 6: civic perspective, Donald Trump has a road that's fair to say,
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  Speaker 6: who lost their women, who who lost their jobs? In
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  Speaker 6: this dead one hundred black women? Why is he going
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  Speaker 6: after you know? Why did he going after black people
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  Speaker 6: and women in the military.
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  Speaker 7: Why?
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  Speaker 6: So I'm not saying that we haven't made strides. I'm
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  Speaker 6: saying that whatever strides we made, this administration is doing
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  Speaker 6: their best to obliterate. And he seemed to have be
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  Speaker 6: very cozy with it. Jasmine Sanders, do you agree?
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  Speaker 8: I do not agree, And I think it's it's much
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  Speaker 8: like a lot of the things that Stephen A. Smith
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  Speaker 8: has said in the past year, very reckless, and I
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  Speaker 8: think it does lean very right, which is probably what
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  Speaker 8: he's trying to appeal to, because I think it's dangerous
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  Speaker 8: to try to play into the hand that they already
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  Speaker 8: try to deal out, and that is by saying you
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  Speaker 8: know that this country is not racist, and that we
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  Speaker 8: harp on that too much and it doesn't exist. And
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  Speaker 8: so when he co signs on that, I think it
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  Speaker 8: not only takes us back, but I think, you know,
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  Speaker 8: in many ways, which is what they want. It makes
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  Speaker 8: it seem as if that they are correct and saying
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  Speaker 8: that we told you, you know, racism is no longer
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  Speaker 8: an issue in this country.
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  Speaker 1: We don't do that.
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  Speaker 8: And I think it's reckless on his part to say
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  Speaker 8: such a thing.
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  Speaker 6: When he says it's not as prevalent as the left,
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  Speaker 6: what have you believe? Let's just take the word Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 6: who was associated with his administration. Look at the things
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  Speaker 6: he said in the last month, Look at the things
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  Speaker 6: people associated with this administration have said in the last
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  Speaker 6: few months. These are not convictioned fabrications of the left
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  Speaker 6: at all.
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  Speaker 5: Didn't he just appoint somebody who was a outward white
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  Speaker 5: supremacist into his cabinet?
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  Speaker 1: As they rate tried that point, and that is that
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  Speaker 1: that's the right. That's a vaprigation of the of the left.
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  Speaker 8: And it's more than just kind of right, and it's
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  Speaker 8: always directed at more than just black people. It's Muslims,
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  Speaker 8: it's Asians, it is not lily white. And you can
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  Speaker 8: go through all the way back to twenty sixteen and
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  Speaker 8: pinpoint and even further back than that the things that
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  Speaker 8: he has said and done from a racist perspective.
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  Speaker 6: Explain is didn't he only let would let white South
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  Speaker 6: Africans in yep?
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  Speaker 1: He said they would be a murdered. Didn't need that.
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  Speaker 6: Else what he can't see over his forehead, that's what
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  Speaker 6: I think. I think that it must take a long
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  Speaker 6: time for a reasonable thought to get through all that forehead.
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  Speaker 1: That's what. Because you can't make it, you can't say
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  Speaker 1: things like that. Why is he I'm not saying we
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  Speaker 1: haven't made a lot of progress.
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  Speaker 6: What I am saying is that a lot of that
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  Speaker 6: progress has been rolled back, right, Explain a lot of
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  Speaker 6: that specifically because of this administration.
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  Speaker 5: Why is he saying he would run as a Democrat
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  Speaker 5: but eighty nine of everything he talks about be the
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  Speaker 5: hard right side. What is that he helped menderstand.
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  Speaker 6: He knows well, first off, he'd have a better chance
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  Speaker 6: with us than them. I mean, Tim scob tried to
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  Speaker 6: run and he's a loyal soldier, He's a full time soldier.
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  Speaker 6: He tried to run, and he even tried to pretend
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  Speaker 6: he liked chicks to get the nominations.
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  Speaker 1: Tim Scott wanted to win, so Bady kissed the girl.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, wait a minute, he married one, didn't he Wooie.
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  Speaker 6: It's like now that dude he wanted to be president
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  Speaker 6: so bad. I think he knocked off a chick. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: It is the deal. You can show your twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six edition. So Steven A. Smith says this, Does.
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  Speaker 2: He worry about racism if he ran for president?
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  Speaker 1: No, I know it exists.
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  Speaker 4: I know that you can't escape it, but I do
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  Speaker 4: not believe it is as prevalent as some on the left.
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  Speaker 1: Would like us to believe. Do you agree we're going
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  Speaker 1: right to the phones.
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  Speaker 3: I think that Stephen A. Smith has a political agendas
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  Speaker 3: like so perservation. He actually he has to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that the people support him and the people that actually
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  Speaker 3: back him and fund him are not going to stop.
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  Speaker 3: And it's kind of sad because you know, he can
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  Speaker 3: go in on opinions that are subjective about sports, where
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  Speaker 3: you can talk the loudest and you can you know,
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  Speaker 3: win about argument, but just embracing the truth. And he
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  Speaker 3: has a platform that is worldwide, but you cannot speak
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  Speaker 3: the truth where it counts to the most people that
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  Speaker 3: listen because of some kind of social shackles that you wear.
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  Speaker 3: And don't get me wrong, being you know him, being
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  Speaker 3: like he is does make him controversial, which is good
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  Speaker 3: for ratings in his field. But the sad part about
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  Speaker 3: it is when there's something that is just a straight
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  Speaker 3: up truth that you need to just weigh in on,
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  Speaker 3: he can't say it to the public. He may feel
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  Speaker 3: it all day long, but from his platform it hits
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  Speaker 3: his self preservation in his political agenda will not let
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  Speaker 3: him identify the truth public and I find that sad,
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  Speaker 3: but that's just how it is a lot of times
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  Speaker 3: in media, who cares.
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  Speaker 9: What Steven has to say.
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  Speaker 10: He's like Anthony m Muti sitting up on national television
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  Speaker 10: saying that Trump is not racist and he.
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  Speaker 7: Fired him first.
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  Speaker 10: This first administration stephen A is to sell out like
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  Speaker 10: Snoop around Nelly, Rick Ross. All of them will take
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  Speaker 10: a dollar to make statements like that, like Candace on
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  Speaker 10: and then when they get in trouble be looking for
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  Speaker 10: someone to bail amount. He can keep sticking his neck
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  Speaker 10: out like he does.
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  Speaker 1: And wait till Trump chops it on.
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  Speaker 9: Stephen A is way off on this as usual. I mean,
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  Speaker 9: she needs to be a man and just stand up
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  Speaker 9: to stay what's real?
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  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 9: How we as Black Americans don't trust him as a
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  Speaker 9: serious presidential candidate if he cannot even call a single thing.
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  Speaker 9: I mean it's obvious Dosney's last. But eight years every
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  Speaker 9: such Trump rad racism has been on the rise by
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  Speaker 9: thanks from the FBI. I mean, paid crimes are at
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  Speaker 9: the all time high, and all the stuff that this
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  Speaker 9: administration is doing. I mean, it's odd, just man, that
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  Speaker 9: racism is alive and Will I mean we just have
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  Speaker 9: to deal with it the best of care. But it's
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  Speaker 9: a love and will just tell the truth. That's the
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  Speaker 9: only way we're going to be able to overcome it.
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  Speaker 9: You got to you gotta tell the truth. Call a
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  Speaker 9: thing a thing that didn't deal with it.
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  Speaker 11: D l is one hundred percent correct. But we have
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  Speaker 11: made strides. However, if there was not still an abundance
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  Speaker 11: of racism in this country, there would have been more outrage,
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  Speaker 11: the same kind of outrage as when the two white
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  Speaker 11: folks in Minneapolis were weren't murdered by ice. The same
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  Speaker 11: outrage would have been a long time ago when they
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  Speaker 11: were killing black and brown people, shooting black and brown
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  Speaker 11: people in the faith and all of that. If there
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  Speaker 11: was less racism, there would be more outrage. Why was
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  Speaker 11: there no outrage untilled those two individuals died. That's when
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  Speaker 11: everybody knew their name. But nobody knows the name. I
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  Speaker 11: can't even remember the name of the young man that
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  Speaker 11: was killed just two weeks fire to when Ms. Cood
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  Speaker 11: was killed in her car. So yeah, we've got a
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  Speaker 11: long way to go. And the fact that people are
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  Speaker 11: still supporting this president and that he gets away with
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  Speaker 11: as much stuff as he gets away with, that is
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  Speaker 11: an abundance of racism right there.
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  Speaker 1: It is the DL. You will show you a twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixth edition. So Steven A. Smith says, this.
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  Speaker 2: Does you worry about racism if he ran for president?
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  Speaker 1: No? I know it exists.
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  Speaker 4: I know that you can't escape it, But I do
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  Speaker 4: not believe it is as prevalent as some on the left.
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  Speaker 1: Would like us to believe.
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  Speaker 4: I do believe a vast majority of Americans judge you
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  Speaker 4: on the content of your individual character rather than.
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  Speaker 1: The color of your skin.
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  Speaker 4: I think a lot of people in America especially in
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  Speaker 4: this day and age, now more so than ever before.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about race.
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  Speaker 4: It's about the fact that they don't give a damn
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  Speaker 4: about it because they got their own problems. That's entirely
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  Speaker 4: different than believing they are superior to you and they
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  Speaker 4: want to hold you back from sending. That's not what's
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  Speaker 4: going on to the degree that it was decades ago.
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  Speaker 1: Do you agree we're going right to the bones.
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  Speaker 12: The only point that stephen A. Smith has is the
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  Speaker 12: point at which his forehead and his hairline don't stop.
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  Speaker 12: The only point that he has, and the word he
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  Speaker 12: likes to use, is the point that he continues to
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  Speaker 12: bloviate doesn't stop. The point he continues to run his
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  Speaker 12: mouth doesn't stop. Stephen A. Continues to show his ignorance
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  Speaker 12: and how out of touch he inss with not only
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  Speaker 12: the American people, but especially the African American people of
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  Speaker 12: this country.
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  Speaker 13: We know that stephen Ah Smith is delusional and has
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  Speaker 13: clearly been living under a rock. There are countless studies
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  Speaker 13: out there that show not only does racism still exist,
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  Speaker 13: but systematic racism still exist. I need him to understand redlining.
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  Speaker 13: I need him to understand unfair lending. I need him
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  Speaker 13: to explain all of the things that people are coming
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  Speaker 13: fact people are still experiencing, to say, it's not nineteen
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  Speaker 13: sixty five, We're still experiencing this in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 12: He's it idious.
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  Speaker 2: Stephen A.
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  Speaker 7: Smith is fuller, and I'm gonna tell you why. He
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  Speaker 7: has always used emotional exploitation to get his point across,
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  Speaker 7: which means when you don't like what he says, he
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  Speaker 7: just yells and screams. Secondly, he knows if he says
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  Speaker 7: that he's appealing to them because he's not threatening. Thirdly,
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  Speaker 7: you look at the history of the white demographic and
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  Speaker 7: the historic uncomfortableness with us being aware of the past.
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  Speaker 7: Somebody need tell Stephen nice tribal, we've seen this movie before.
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  Speaker 14: In a way, you could say that Stephen A Is
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  Speaker 14: right that it's not as bad as.
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  Speaker 1: What the Lift makes it out to be.
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  Speaker 14: It's actually worse.
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  Speaker 9: It's actually worse. That I feel like that because I
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  Speaker 9: grew up in the.
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  Speaker 14: South, like in South Carolina, like where the Stone over
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  Speaker 14: Million happened. Racism here is like they say, it's like
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  Speaker 14: not in your face, it's subtlety.
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  Speaker 1: It's the little subtlety which.
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  Speaker 14: Is worse In a way than the point blank, in
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  Speaker 14: your face type of racism that people claim doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 14: The only reason that people are making this an issue
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  Speaker 14: now is because it is so in their face. Now,
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  Speaker 14: it's so in your face. It's blatant, it's loud, it's like,
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  Speaker 14: there's no it's stands or buts about it. Right, there's
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  Speaker 14: no mistake that is racism. But you know, I grew
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  Speaker 14: up in a place where you could have brushed off
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  Speaker 14: a lot of this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You could have.
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  Speaker 14: Brushed off a lot of racist things that happened to you,
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  Speaker 14: that were said to you that we're done to you.
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  Speaker 14: So I guess he right.
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  Speaker 7: It ain't as bad.
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  Speaker 1: It's worse, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Today he has earned it.
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  Speaker 15: And I just moved into a safe white neighborhood. But
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  Speaker 15: now my kids got white friends, and I can't say
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  Speaker 15: the that I normally say around my kids because they
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  Speaker 15: got white friends. I mean, I don't say the N
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  Speaker 15: word a lot, but my friends they used the N
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  Speaker 15: word like Frank's red hot.
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  Speaker 1: They put that on everything.
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  Speaker 15: So I'm taking my daughter her little white friend to
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  Speaker 15: get some ice cream, and my phone rings on Bluetooth.
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  Speaker 15: It's one of my army buddies. The first thing got
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  Speaker 15: his mouth is I'm like, hey, hold on, bro chill out,
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  Speaker 15: chill out. I got a little work doing the car.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, oh, are you kidnapping?
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  Speaker 2: Now, I'm like, no, bro, no.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, I'm looking back in the rearview mirror.
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  Speaker 15: She looking at me, smilingess like she in't on the joke.
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  Speaker 1: She says, don't worry. My daddy says it all the times.
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  Speaker 13: I'm like