{"id":64619,"date":"2020-09-11T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stephen-a-smith-espn-going-all-in-on-tales-of-white-privilege\/"},"modified":"2020-09-11T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T01:05:00","slug":"stephen-a-smith-espn-going-all-in-on-tales-of-white-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stephen-a-smith-espn-going-all-in-on-tales-of-white-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stephen A. Smith, ESPN going all in on tales of \u2018white privilege\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c5a0b68f29\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c5a0b68f29\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stephen-a-smith-espn-going-all-in-on-tales-of-white-privilege\/#Kay_has_timeline_out_of_whack\" >Kay has timeline out of whack<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Stephen A. Smith, ESPN going all in on tales of \u2018white privilege\u2019<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        Given that I\u2019m assigned to cover sports as delivered by TV, two recent developments have become dominant, repetitive <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a>s:<\/p>\n<p>1) If you don\u2019t have a bet or bets on the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s, you\u2019re out of touch with sports, especially how they plan to sustain viewership and TV billions by suckering the young and vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>How would MLB now welcome Pete Rose to the Hall of Fame? \u201cCome on in, Pete! Gambling on baseball is good!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2) The United States is nearly unredeemable as a racist nation and must im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely change!<\/p>\n<p>As for 1), I think it\u2019s too late. Outside of an occasional bet on a big horse race, my sports betting days ended in the 1980s with the realization that it was a waste of time, thought and money.<\/p>\n<p>As for 2), I don\u2019t know what to do or how I can change for the better. I pay my taxes, I don\u2019t litter, I\u2019m an embracing father and grandfather, I took 10 years to pay off my college loan, I began at the bottom and I perform charity work, including for Habitat for Humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I have never oppressed a minority.<\/p>\n<p>I do not, however, suffer people who would continue to point American blacks to the rear for a living \u2014 genuine oppressors. Thus, I decry the lyrics of rap music that sexually degrades women, celebrates gun violence and, now, by tacit decree, references black men with the N-word.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16278595\"><img alt=\" Wanda Sykes\" data- data- height=\"235\" width=\"290\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Wanda Sykes at the 2018 U.S. Open.<\/span><span>Larry Marano<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was raised \u2014 and I raised my kids \u2014 to consider that word as the worst of slurs. I don\u2019t see an excusable context, let alone a rhythmic upside to it. And I\u2019m flabbergasted that our sports and their networks have increasingly chosen to attach themselves to such artistry while simultaneously encouraging white viewers to take stock of themselves as racists.<\/p>\n<p>And I wouldn\u2019t exploit our national anthem or flag for any purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, for all that I\u2019m condemned as a racist.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday on ESPN, Serena Williams and Sloane Stephens, two black women, were engaged in a tight, entertaining match at the U.S. Open. Suddenly, ESPN did what it so often does. It decided we didn\u2019t really care about what we\u2019d tuned in to watch, thus it squeezed the match to a postage stamp and hacked the screen into thirds.<\/p>\n<p>Why? This was the time for Chris Fowler and Chris Evert to conduct a remote interview with black comedian and actress Wanda Sykes, whose show, \u201cBlack-ish\u201d appears \u2014 what a coincidence! \u2014 on ESPN\u2019s Disney sibling network, ABC. The session was long, awkward, needless, totally forced and insulting.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, it included the now obligatory lecture on racial and social justice, as if those who chose to watch a match between two black women were predominated by white supremacists.<\/p>\n<p>This week, ESPN\u2019s Man For All Reasons, Stephen A. Smith, was again self-ensnared by his rotten guesswork.<\/p>\n<p>First, he claimed that the Nets\u2019 hiring of Steve Nash, sans NBA head coaching portfolio, was an example of \u201cwhite privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was quickly and decisively debunked even by frightened, race-pandering media. On TNT, Charles Barkley and Ernie Johnson gave four examples \u2014 Derek Fisher, Jason Kidd, Isiah Thomas and Doc Rivers \u2014 to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>But the next day, Smith was left to chase his own tail and tale. He figured he could holler his way out:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mentioned white privilege, yesterday. I have a message to those who feel that I was wrong, that I need to apologize, that I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about, etcetera. I don\u2019t give a damn what y\u2019all feel. Y\u2019all can all kick rocks. I don\u2019t give a damn. I\u2019m not budging from my position one inch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy point about white privilege, tell me the black man that would happen for? No r\u00e9sum\u00e9 whatsoever as a coach, at all. And you get a job of this magnitude. I\u2019m not talking about Derek Fisher, with the sorry New York Knicks at the time. I\u2019m not talking about Jason Kidd, his first era when they were building the Brooklyn Nets squad, I\u2019m not talking about Doc Rivers in Orlando. I\u2019m not talking about those opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m talking about championship ready, and it would be a shock if you don\u2019t win 50 games and you\u2019re not contending for a crown. Black folks with no r\u00e9sum\u00e9 getting a job like that? I have been covering the NBA for 25 years \u2026 brothers do not get those opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, he realizes he was wrong \u2014 dead wrong \u2014 but he has the <em>privilege<\/em> to be wrong, then tell everyone else to go to hell. And this purveyor of social justice and wisdom remains ESPN\u2019s No. 1 man.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know how to peacefully protest the plight of black Americans or join the activities of Black Lives Matter con artists by destroying all achievements in sight, nor by ignoring the escalating daily slaughter of urban blacks by urban blacks, but I\u2019m willing to learn.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Smith, Stephen A. Smith will help me.<\/p>\n<p>And for those who can still stand it, Sunday\u2019s NFL telecasts will be packed with audio and visual reminders that white viewers, no matter their accomplishments and how they succeeded or failed, are all born and raised racists.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Kay_has_timeline_out_of_whack\"><\/span>Kay has timeline out of whack<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Yankeeography: On Tuesday during Yankees-Blue Jays on YES, Michael Kay noted a clubhouse scuffle between the Yanks\u2019 Goose Gossage and Cliff Johnson in which Gossage hurt his thumb. That, said Kay, \u201copened the door for Dave Righetti to become the Yanks\u2019 closer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson last played for the Yankees in 1979. Righetti became the closer in 1984.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>Monday\u2019s disqualification of U.S. Open top men\u2019s seed Novak Djokovic after, in a moment of frustration, he hit a ball \u2014 not the least bit hard \u2014 that accidentally struck a lineswoman in the throat was curious. Though rules are rules, the punishment seemed to exceed the crime.<\/p>\n<p>But there was an upside: TV money wasn\u2019t the decisive factor.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>NBC still tries to sell the FedEx Cup as golf\u2019s \u201cFifth Major\u201d when it\u2019s a pure money-grab \u2014 $15 million to the winner, and even eighth place gets $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>But with no gallery to absorb the noise, Sunday\u2019s coverage included the nostalgic musical sound of a Mister Softee truck rolling by.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid I\u2019d grow excited by the sound of the ice cream truck headed down our street, and would ask my dad for 15 cents. \u201cNo,\u201d he\u2019d say, \u201cthey play that music when they\u2019re out of ice cream.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>How do today\u2019s big leaguers hit .200? The Wilson Ramos Method! 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