Stephen A. Smith's Bad History Goes Viral
Stephen A. Smith attends ESPN Fashion Week - Revenge of the Jocks at The Box at Lincoln Center on September 10, 2013 in New York City.
Photo by Jeff Schear/Getty Images for ESPNThe original Breitbart News clip about the quote has been shared nearly 20,000 times. A post at Glenn Beck's viral news site, The Blaze, is closing in on 22,000 shares. ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith's call for one election in which "every black person in America vote Republican" is making the rounds, the way that only a black pundit's denunciation of the Democrats can.
If there's a problem with Smith's analysis, which he made this week at the Impact Symposium in Tennessee, it's that his history veers from the mostly-true to the entirely-garbage. Smith even admitted that he might be botching his rationale for a black voter protest; "I'm open to correction," he said as he tried to explain the 1964 passage of the Civil Rights Act.