Steppin A. Fetch damn sure wasn't raised in my community. I don't fukk with the notion of "the black community" anyway. It's an intellectually dishonest term that serves to spark broad, shallow, offensive generalizations. Blacks as individuals take offense to white people discussing "the black community" as a monolith, so why the fukk are we fine when a black person commits the same insidious faux pas?
I'm an 80s New York nikka; take it a step narrower - I'm a Harlem nikka; take it another step narrower - my family is half-West Indian black; another step narrower - we were raised in our own particular circumstances, with our own particular values. There were other blacks in my buildings who had completely different everything from us, from background to culture to values to rituals. Steppin A. Fetch ain't speaking on shyt, he's just recycling the same old tropes to be "provocative" and generate buzz and money.
But let's take it further than that. You ever seen a dude on Sports Center discuss climate? European History? Quantum Physics? 1950s Literature? Of course not - they have no background in those subjects, they have no expertise to offer. But people are willing to cheapen subjects as complex and important as race, sociology, and ethics by reasoning that because that roach-cricket looking c00nin' O'Brien ass lame fukk has dark skin he should be waxing pseudo-philosophical on all of those issues? You ever see sports personalities confidently venture into realms of politics, race, society, etc, unless it's to denigrate blacks? It's quite rare - even a fireable offense in most cases.
Steppin A. Smith is not remotely qualified to discuss "black issues." He's just some nikka with a sad hairline and a stereotypically jive ass, loud minstrel voice. He doesn't have a PhD in sociology or Afam Studies; he wasn't a social columnist with years of attending pertinent conferences under his belt, analyzing data, studying the most current and thorough articles and books on these subjects. He has no bonafides, no qualifications to discuss race and society, but he's allowed to - shyt, encouraged to - because he tends to say things thaat reinforce popular, foul notions of black people in general, and black athletes specifically.
shyt, he's barely qualified to discuss sports. Keep it funky - he rode the bench at a shytty ass basketball school, was a hack columnist who got fired from his paper for placing his pursuit of personal celebrity over quality writing and reporting, a media who went begging for a job at Fox, promising to be a token black conservative attack dog, and now he's Skip Bayless' stooge. Dude's basketball analysis is just eh, and his knowledge of other sports is fukking comically lacking.
Why exactly is it that as a black man you expect me to think so little of myself, my family, my friends, the history of blacks in America, and the issues of race and society, that I wouldn't call out nikkas who c00n for personal gain?
Steppin A. Fetch can get fukked in the ass with a horse's cock for all I care. He's a fukking Grade A c00n.
I want to add that the reason I never gave half a fukk about the Million Man March is the same reason Steppin' A. gets on my nerves. Given the history of this country, I have no patience at all for all this bullshyt about atonement and accountability and "we have to do better." Black people in America been working against a stacked deck since forever, but we always being asked to apologize, own up, and do better. That shyt is the okey doke. No one else is called on to do that shyt as a group, and after a while it wears thin.
and "needed to be said." It's been 10 years since the "it needed to be said" Cosby movement. And what comes out of it besides niqqas like you head nodding? There are no plans in place coming from these clowns. Their aim is to have people like you and white folks nod their heads in agreement with there "we have to do better" solutions while pointing out symptoms to a sickness they pour ZERO insight to.
every time this dude talks about Lebron he gets the urge to say the N word.
