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  • Hall of Famer Jim Brown and Kobe Bryant have gotten into a little bit of a test

  • and it all kinda started when Jim Brown

  • made comments about Kobe being born in Italy so let me read you exactly what he

  • said

  • Kobe was confused about culture because he was raised in

  • Italy not the US and that if he were to organize our athletes today

  • as he did in 1967 to discuss Mohammed Elise conscientious objection to the

  • Vietnam War

  • Kobe would not be invited so that's how we Chris for writing about what Jim

  • Brown has said yeah

  • in an interview and net so pretty serious this a

  • Kobe I now I like Jim Brown's activism

  • I the probably going a little too far in a statement soco be going to strike back

  • worries yet so kobe took to Twitter because of course anytime there's any

  • type of argument

  • a public figure has to write something on Twitter he said a global

  • african-american

  • is an inferior shade to American african-americans

  • whom that doesn't sound very mandela or doctor king sir

  • like area the serbs will be respectful yet ok Jim Brown

  • a but maybe a measure he meant it

  • somebody at least at it okay are so now this led to a larger issue

  • and of course Stephen a Smith pass the way

  • yes so Stephen a Smith a you know he's the coast to take

  • a first take he said black conservatives are considered pariahs in our

  • ostracized in our communities and it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever

  • so let's stop there i think thats uninteresting take because oftentimes we

  • will have

  • up you know clips from Fox News where they will have a token black man on

  • there is usually a token conservative black man

  • saying really hideous things about the black community right

  • and we will criticize them because oftentimes I feel like they're either

  • being used for their misled or misleading

  • so you jumpin Jack what do you think about those comments arcs a couple

  • things

  • number one I don't know that could be seen a conservative so

  • Stephen a Smith is taking this in a slightly different direction but number

  • two

  • like I said normally agree with jim brown and I really

  • the appreciate what you did with Muhammad Ali back in the day

  • you know I'm it was around but looking back at what he did

  • I and a I I don't like that distinction between

  • guys who grew up in Italy in here it is it's as a piece in kobe is not black

  • enough

  • and I i don't agree with that I don't like that okay now

  • at the same time series will be good to use like hey you know what he makes no

  • sense that was the

  • black conservatives mmm not so much

  • you know I'll tell you why the South controversial like well who are you to

  • say

  • you know you know there's a wide opinion and diversity the african-american

  • community

  • well really no shit Sherlock I'm figure that out

  • I heard I do they all had the same a bit weaker ok all good corporate governance

  • billions of course they do

  • but that's not the issue so good african-americans have different

  • opinions on taxes

  • or on foreign policy obviously they kept me

  • but the problem is right now the Republican Party

  • has one thing that's kind of a deal breaker they don't seem to like

  • african-americans

  • okayed now so for example I'm a Turkish descent

  • when I was growing up all the people I know I'm not saying I represent the

  • whole church American community

  • there I would say about taxes seventy percent Republic okay

  • and that's it was a new jersey right now I would say

  • there at least 70 percent democratic and was anecdotal

  • you go you talk to any Muslim community in america in your fine and terms are

  • largely Muslim now the people I know

  • after them don't believe in religion anyway but says they identify themselves

  • as Muslim

  • when the republican party seems to despise all Muslims it was kind of a

  • deal breaker

  • you know you might maybe love those guys were doctors and they want to lower

  • taxes

  • but they didn't want someone who said got your taxes but I despise you

  • right and I'd like to wage war against every country that has people have your

  • dissented right so when republicans a

  • what civil rights all over and over and over again

  • and then you come and tell me why will you not being fair because there's

  • actually black republicans

  • actually if you look at the polling you look at the voting there is a lot of

  • them

  • causes that huge deal breaker ship yeah it's more about it's more about the

  • policy the republicans try to pass

  • as opposed to you know we don't want black people to have differences of

  • opinion

  • and that's what up Stephen Smith seems to believe you know he continues on he

  • says

  • this is a problem that exists within our community because you are

  • because you are from our community everybody believes that everybody is

  • supposed to be identical to one another

  • and we can't display or exercise any kind of versatility

  • alright or range in our talking or thinking it's a problem

  • that we have to deal with so he does things like

  • all were not tolerant differences of opinion but again

  • if you are supporting a party that continuously tried the past policy that

  • goes against your best interest

  • yeah members under community are gonna criticize you for that you gotta look

  • out for your best interest

  • we think about all the different things that republicans upset off-the-cuff

  • about how you need to drug test minorities because they're probably

  • doing drugs if they're on welfare

  • and you want to give them any public assistance if they're doing drugs that's

  • just one example so many different things that they've said in the past

  • so that's why they get ostracized that's why they get criticized

  • can't hook it's even a smoke this bowl grade

  • and it seems to me like now I'm speculating but it seems to me you he

  • would like lower taxes

  • and whatever price it takes to get those lower taxes okay

  • so again at the gay community youth in the gay community is their wide-ranging

  • appeal of course they do

  • but they don't like it when you say they're on natural in a shouldn't have

  • the rights as straight americans have it senator father party concept to

  • understand

  • I think Stephen a Smith is being purposely dance on that

Hall of Famer Jim Brown and Kobe Bryant have gotten into a little bit of a test

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