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Stephen A. Smith, Idiot, Is Now Just Mad at People Who Defend Chip Kelly
By Jim Adair
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Stephen A. Smith, the spearhead of the “Chip Kelly is racist even thought I’m not saying the word ‘racist'” movement, is stuck. After repeatedly saying that people in the locker room feel that Chip is a racist, he was face-to-face with quotes from Eagles players saying that Chip isn’t a racist. So where does he go from here?
First, he says that Chip may not be worth the trouble because he hasn’t won a Super Bowl … in two seasons. Sure. That’s not even in the same time zone as the most absurd thing Stephen A. has said, so let’s just move past it. What comes next is the problem.
Stephen A. has re-iterated over and over again that he doesn’t know Chip Kelly. You don’t know Chip Kelly either. Stephen A. said black players think he’s a racist. Black players said they don’t think that. Essentially, Stephen A. had no idea what he was talking about. So where does his issue lie now? With YOU:
“I have no problem with the black players on the Philadelphia Eagles taking their position. You communicate with Chip Kelly directly. You know him and you know, you want to sit there and poo-poo the notion of racist or racism and all of that stuff, you go right ahead. I’m here to tell you they’re probably right. Most of America, who don’t happen to be this color or share my pigmentation, let me say to the Chip Kelly defenders, you all are getting on my damn nerves. I’m losing my patience with people.
Let me be clear. This is the problem. You got people out here, they want to put black folks in a box. They want to say, ‘Oh, you are calling him racist.’ No, they didn’t. He said they have a problem dealing with the brothers. They very well could have been saying, ‘Look, we ain’t white, we ain’t Hispanic, we ain’t Native American, we ain’t Jewish.’ We are black men and there is a certain kind of way if you come at us it is going to be an affront to us. We are not going to absorb it the way someone white, Jewish, Asian, Latino may absorb it. We are not saying you are a racist. We aren’t invoking the ‘R word.’ What we are saying is, ‘We aren’t comfortable with you because the manner in which you communicate with us is different than how we watch you communicating with other people.”
Sure, but that “r word” line was toed without grace or delicacy. It was pulled back and let go like a slingshot of stupidity. And Stephen A., a man who admitted he did not know Chip Kelly and was just reacting to what he heard, now has a problem with you, a person who does not know Chip Kelly, reacting to what you heard. Stephen A. swerved to avoid hitting a wall and instead went right off of a cliff that he’s gone over many times before.
[h/t to Brietbart for the transcription, but for real, don’t go there]
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.