April 27, 2021 • 29 mins
Steve responds to Brett Favre, and the people who sent messages after his initial response to the Hall of Fame QB's comments about George Floyd, on social media.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is cut to It with Steve Smith Senior at
production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm
Steve Smith Senior and I'm John And this is a
cut to It bonus episode. Good do It, Good do It.
They's getting down to do it. Good do a good afternoon,
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Good afternoon. What's up? Hey, what's going on? Jas are
you man? I'm good? How was your weekend? Man? Weekend
was good until oh man? Yeah, the streets have been buzzing.
I'm talking about buzzing, buzzing, so, uh if if, if
you aren't aware, if you've been keeping track. Of course,
last week there was the Derek Chauvin George Floyd trial,
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and uh probably a few days ago, Brett Farve on
his podcast Bowling with Farv made a comment that, uh,
he quote, I find it hard to believe. And I'm
not defending Derek Chauvin in any way. Find it hard
to believe first of all, that he intentionally meant to
kill George Floyd. And just because of such the social
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media outroar that has come about, I want to make
sure I give what he said. He also said that
being said his actions were uncalled for. I don't care
what color the person is on the street. I don't
know what led to that video and that we saw
where his knee was on his neck, but the man
had thrown in the towel. So then you know, of course, uh,
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we have a cut to its social media account. And
so Smithie uh came back and said, what from the
I'll give straight from the horse's mouth. So I said
to Mr brat Fad, which I respect. Um, he's a
he's a he's a man that um admired. He threw
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to one of the greatest wide receivers I believe to
play in the NFL. Um uh sterling shark and should
who should be in the Hall of Fame even though
his career was cut short because of a neck injury. Um,
and just basically saying that, you know, for me, I
I really felt it was appropriate to say something about
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Brett saying something because Brett had also mentioned two or
three times and said some things that I believed to
be out of character, which he talked about how so
many people were tired of politics. He said that the
week previously, or a week a week too, or we
you know, whenever, and then the next week or two
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weeks later, you know, it's all recorded. Um what he
stated it was he doesn't believe it was intentional, that
what was happening, you know, in the trial. And I
understand you never you know, when you do something wrong,
that whatever the result is is never the intent in
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which happened. Whatever happens, I don't leave that, Brett mean
to come off come off insensitive. But it was from
from the vantage point from the vantage point of there
was a trial in which an because it was a
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trial in which your conviction and a man lost his
lost his life, whatever the circumstances are. And also the
police officer form police officer went to jail, and so
two families are now devastated. Again, I didn't say one.
I said two families, because there is a cause and effect. Now,
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what is disturbing is there's a gentleman on our Instagram,
uh Kobe or Cody. And I'll read you what he
said at on Saturday at six before you read Cody's response.
Here's here's here's what you said on social media. I
find it hard to believe and I'm not defending there's
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shoving in any way. This is that's what Brett Forbes said.
You said, I have so much respect for your career,
Hall of Fame, awards, etcetera. However, on this subject, Mr
for s T F you, which shorthand for shut up
up respectfully, real talk privileged as So that's what that's
what was sailed on. And people are saying I'm privileged,
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and we'll get to that response, and then let's just
talk about the second. This gentleman who doesn't follow us,
and he's you know, his twenty five followers, and because
he has ben kind of all the sports people are
put uh running it. So someone he some someplace or
someone he follows. He saw my response and here's what
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he said. At six am. Hey nigger, do yourself a
favor and shut the funk up and go cry a
fucking river somewhere where George Floyd can George Floyd can
swim and fucking I out of here with your black ass.
That's what he said. And it's a number of those emails.
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It's a number we got over. It's over. You're right,
she said, Bread is right. No one goes to work
intentionally harming someone. Now I like that email. That's I
like that. Damn that's she said. Okay, Well, I don't
agree to disagree. Um, you know you be quiet. Hey nigger,
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Hey nigger, Hey nigger, your clown. I'm a privilege this man.
It's so you know, it's so disappointed. Even someone says,
pull up, give me, give your give you, because I
think this is really important because people someone says you're
a clown. You you shut the funk up. You privileged
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as bitch. That's what someone said, Christopher L. Whatever his
last name is. And I'm sorry that you feel that
strongly about my statements that you're willing to list risk
your life on social media to come at me on
social media when I say privilege. Let's break breakdown, because
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here's what I think you're calling him white privilege in
our world. I'm not calling him privilege. I'm calling privilege
in this regard. If you look up the true definition
of privilege, having or enjoying one or more privileges, Well,
here's one or more privileges that we all have. George
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Floyd has no breath in his lungs anymore. So we
all have that. We all have that we can comment
on this because for George Floyd, he didn't get the
privilege of due process. He was judge, jury executioner while
he was down on the ground for non places, and
that happened other definition not subject to the usual usual
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rules or punishment or penalties because of some special circumstances.
I have some privilege. We all, what's the example that
we talked about. We talked about this the fact. Here's
the privilege I have because of who I am. I
do get the privilege of seeing both sides of the fence,
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being both sides of the fence of a black man
who has a name. So when I get pulled over, hey,
that's Steve. We know he's not doing anything illegal. So
I have gotten that privilege. I've also got the privilege
of being stopped in Monroe by a police officer who
called me boy, who told me get from around here.
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So I've had the privilege of seeing both sides of
the coin. I've had the privilege being pulled over with
my child in the back seat and the police officer says,
who's that. I had to look back like, who is
he talking to? Whose sounds like that's my child? What's
his name? You don't if you run his prince, they
ain't in a database, but you know, so I've experience
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and seeing some of that. But I also think that
in this subject that we're talking about with Bret, Brett
farb does not having the understanding or ever has to
deal with being pulled over and dealing with what George
Floyd may have experienced. And guess what, unless I do something,
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I don't have that either. And that's the facts. But
I'm not gonna act like because you guys don't like
because I'm picking on your favorite player. He's one of
my favorite players too, But in being one of my
favorite players, I personally try to stay out of this
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game because I don't always experience some of what other
people experience. But I have watched the trial and I
did think a Hall of Famer who has such a
huge platform probably should not talk about something that he
doesn't experience in his little bubble in Mississippi. Let's be honest,
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Brett is from Mississippi. I'm from l A. There's things
that I know I have never experienced in l A
that Bret has and vice versa. But again, I'm not
gonna act like the odds of him being stereotyped his
in his bubble are severely ri and and and where
I know you were going was the way that you
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mentioned privilege was not that Brett has white privilege. I didn't.
Although that term has exist, that's not what But go ahead,
privilege doesn't equate the wealth because now everyone's firing back
on you and say, oh, you're rich. Doesn't say this.
Let me say this to all the dumbass people listening
to this. Hey, stupid asses, google me and look at
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my wife. I'm not racist. My wife is. You don't know.
You have to, but I want to because I think
that I think the ignorance of my wife is Caucasian.
My kids are mixed. I am not black panther, uh,
you know, all of whatever. But I'm just I'm just
saying because some people think they're like, oh, you're racist
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because you said because I use the words privilege, are
using this right At his core is advantage and in
this and this this and then we all have it
or be in front of the doubt and we all
have it. In this regard, everyone that is allowed to
speak has a privilege. Everyone who is allowed to speak
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has this privilege. That George Floyd does not have a
voice a heartbeat, and the other part of it, people
are like, you want you to be quiet? Respect, his
respect his Just a week before, he said that this,
this shot, this, that these two things shouldn't co exist
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while speaking on his own sports podcast. Right, so just
a week before. So now you have the privilege of
changing your mind. I don't. This isn't even like I'm
not I'm not targeting Bread. I just made I just
thought I'll say something that a lot of guys who
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text me feel in the same way. Bro, did you
hear what Brett Farbe said? Bro, there's two weeks in
a row. Bret Farber says them out of pocket stuff,
and I felt, Hey, Brett fellow alumni in the NFL,
he's Bread Farbs the Hall of Famer, he's this, he's that,
the laundry list of things. But that doesn't mean not.
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I tried, respectfully to just say this out your wheelhouse, bro, sir,
just like there's things out of my wheelhouse I will
never speak about. You know why, Because I know this
out of my wheelhouse. I have the privilege of knowing
what's out of my wheelhouse. So all the people that
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slide into the d N and it's more to dismantled
a lot of that stuff that people have said because
it's thousands and thousands of comments, and now it's been
on it's been on USA today, and it's been all
these people got something that all these people have something
to say, Oh, when you assaulted a teammate, when you
did this for that who different problems. I've addressed it all.
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I've been suspended, I've had a I've had a lawsuit
in which I've settled. But guess what, people, there was
never a CNN court played out about what happened with me,
So you can bring it up and guess what, I'm glad.
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I'm glad your little fat fingers can take great I
didn't kill anybody. And again, I still have not said
anything towards Brett was out of pocket. I felt what
Brett said was insensitive and ultimately he's he's doing his opinion.
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But your opinion is not void without criticism, much like
anyone else's. And and going back to what you said,
like bro, you, I appreciate you explaining your position and
what a lot of people say about you, but the
fact of the matter is whatever you did or you
didn't do, you face consequences for that. You know. One
of the things that's most upsetting about how people are
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quick to call out things if they don't like what
you said, right, and all these people talk, you know,
it's it's tough to sit there and look at the
social media and all these people, Uh, well you got
thirty or forty people in our in our d m
way more than that with derogatory remark oh you need
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to your this and calling me all this everything. And
people are using I said, white privilege actually excuse as
arming that and gives them validation to basically just come
at me and say of what they probably already thought
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before you even made a comment, correct, and they're just
saying things. I'm like, who said that? Again, privilege is
not exclusive to people who played in the National Football League.
Privilege is when not a particular certain groups of people
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based on economic situation is based on privilege of it. Yeah,
it can't be of erace, but it also has to
do with especially if we're talking about an individual that
lost their life by someone else's action, the privilege of
the person that lost their life doesn't have the privilege
to voice their paying about what they experienced that cost
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them their lives. Yea, and it again, this is not
me really coming at Brett far about race is coming coming,
it's going. I'm bringing it up to Brett Farb in
this subject of the way you're talking about a breath.
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Farb would be like me trying to say that I
understand what a woman deals with in birth. Brett Farb
knows as much about being a black man as much
as I know what a woman deals with physically a
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birthing a child. I've watched it four times now. Even
with my eyes, I cannot grasp the pain that my wife,
who had our last child because the epidure didn't take natural,
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the same way that Brett Farb doesn't no exactly what
George Floyd was feeling or what Chauvin was feeling when
he realized that George Floyd was no longer locked. And
to make the comments again, it's it's not to come
at break, but it's to come at the situation. And
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I think what he spoke, it's not like I'm just
picking U out of the thing there. So that's gonna
go to where he spoke. After twelve jurors had already
concluded that he was guilt and all charges. Let's he didn't.
It wasn't after the twelve it's after it. After it
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played itself out to due process and the detail of
and breaking down that other former police officers said of
a doctor said, yes, George Floyd had drugs in the system,
but that was not the cause for him dying. It
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was the lack that it was the fact that he
had lack of oxygen to him caused by the knee
on his throat, and so and everything you just said
on top of all those people who were there that
were part of the due process of of of this
trial were either at the scene or their access to
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things and information coming from the scene. So for for me,
I think the comments are really kind of kind of
two things. One that it comes off and we've talked
about this, it comes off almost very insensitive and apologetic
to to the officer who we just talked about was
on video killing someone. And then the second thing is
that it almost dehumanizes George Floyd, and a lot of
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these comments that we've seen in conversations that is dehumanizing,
as if because he is an alleged criminal or an
alleged drug ad or whatever else you can find on
a person to seem to make it seem like he
got what he deserves. I got a big problem with that.
Here's here's here's the thing. George Floyd had a criminal background.
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George Floyd was arrested for whatever. So does that mean
that he deserves he deserves to die? Because I've been
caught speeding? Does that mean I deserved to the punishment
doesn't fit the crime, doesn't My kids have talked back
to me, Does that mean that they deserve to die?
Or how do you or how do you think these
comments make the family of George Floyd Field or the
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family of Derek like you said, like saying so for
some people try to simplify this, and I get it,
but here we also don't think of the depth of
what the situation is. That the part that is really
simplified to me is you didn't like what I said,
you didn't like the way, or you believe that I
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don't have the I don't I should not have No, no, no, no, no,
let me use the word. I shouldn't have the privilege
to be able to talk to another athletes, especially when
the color of my skin already lowers my ranking right
because you don't want to know the interesting thing about
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all of that, every one of the people in there
are of a Caucasian race, and a lot of them
are calling me a nigga nigger with a hard art. Yep, nigga,
I'm slum, I'm black. Then you know what you know
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it's sad is those people probably five years ago was
probably saying it a different way. I'll let that catch
that pass because it was transaction at that point. You
were doing something for them, and there's such a But
here's the other part. Now this niggad and got out
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of pocket and he's speaking about things that he shouldn't.
So now go back out to the yard and for monarchy.
But to be honest, I'd rather have to shut up
and dribble based on some of these dems because just
the way they're saying and we're saying the performative nature
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but madness. But these some of these dems shows exactly
why we're at the place we're at in our in
our country, because when they don't like what they hear,
they turned me down and they start with the insults.
But if I come out with the insults, then yeah,
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I was gonna say you're you're there, you'd be the villain.
This so wolf the point of me saying what I
said on our social media to bread far is this one.
I don't stand down. Two I won't change because if
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you really, yes, I got in two fights, I know
the rest of the world has not. I've been the
only person I've ever got in the fist fights, so
I'll fall on that fighting sword. But also too, while
you're looking up my dirt, why don't you go ahead
and look up all the good stuff that that we
do in the communities that you're scared to go into,
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the in the communities that we've earned the trust and
trying to change the narrative in which why when you
see a black man with tattoos, you don't clutch your
purse because, to be honest, you ain't got enough cash
in that little ass person. I got my money the clip,
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so I'm not gonna take your little tar j purse.
I'm actually if you drop something, I may, ma'am, because
I've I've had that experience where people clutch their purse
that I want to take something. To be honest, ain't
much in there that I I ain't already got or
I can't buy for myself. I've had people closed elevator
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doors before I've I've been pulled over and then and
then profiled right like I've been like the DM we
get I've I've gotten, I've gotten the N word called
it me during football games. And what I find and
I'm in the but but what I find is when
people start to hurl the racial slurs, they've already had
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that made up in their mind. All you did was
give them probably something that goes against the grain of
their PRECONCESI what what what you've done is you've basically
you've given them the written permission to really say how
they really feel, what's in their heart of who they are,
and they've already got a and more often than not,
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it is people who have nothing else left in their tank,
Like that's that's all they got. If you hurl the
IN word at me, that lets me know, we probably
can't have a good faith conversation right now. We can't.
We can't have any type of dialogue that means that's
all that you got in your tank. Your your vocabulary
is probably already somewhat slim, so you can't. Sometimes it's
just here's also think I think they're lazy, and it's
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a good it's a quick word they can use. Hopefully
they can get a response, right, all these people all
Brett was right. You can't say Brett was right. It's
dead ass wrong. When another man loses their life, individual, good,
bad or in different there's not never a justified CAUs
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And just because that wasn't your intent doesn't negate the result.
So so Chauvin, what that wasn't his and tent, but
somebody dies, somebody. Even the last part that Brett said,
I don't know what led to that video that we
saw where his knee is on his neck, but that
man had thrown the towel hold on that last part,
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the man had thrown in the towel are you talking
about are usually talking about George George Floyd who who died?
That that implies that George had had a fight. There
was no fair fight. This man was already detained his hand,
he was handcuffed again. But here's the thing, because he
wasn't gonna fight. You know, they always treat you like
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this when you have a fake twenty mhm. Right, But
when a guy shoots up a grocery store and all
he has is a bloody knee, that's that's right. Or
someone here in North Carolina, in South Carolina, they drove
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from one state, shot up a church full of folks
and they stopped and got, wow, it's amazing. And I'm
again you can say what you think I am. I'm
not a racist. Do I believe Brett Farb is privileged? Absolutely?
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Do I think Steve Smith Senior's privileged? Absolutely? And also
think everybody listening and the people who d m us,
y'all a privileged to because we all have the privilege
that some of the other people don't have that are
in cemeteries. They don't have the privilege to speak their
truth or speak how they feel. So yeah, we're all
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a privilege. Like you guys said, I'm a privileged nigger,
I'm a privileged clown. I'm a privileged bitch. I'm a
privilege all of that. And I take that privilege very seriously,
in which why the same clown that you now DM
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go to our website and look at what we are
doing in the community here in Charlotte, understanding and and
know what I represent. What I represent is my mother
is Florence Young, my dad is Stephen Smith. Grew up
in Los Angeles, California. We didn't have a lot of money.
God gave me the opportunity to play football. But God
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also gave me the privilege to serve my community. So
my question to you is, as you waste your time
calling me racial slurs, make sure you go serve your
community too, without a tax right off, make sure you
invest in the next George Floyd or the next showing
that we don't have the same consequences and the same
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results happening over and over. Instead of being a part
of the name calling, let's be part of the healing
for this country and for these people. So we look
at each other not because of the color of skin,
but we look at each other for who we are
as as as another gentleman. You guys don't like to
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folks like to acknowledge is the content is someone's character
and that person because of the way he stood up,
just murder them, just just murdered the same way. But
that wasn't the intention. So again I don't I don't
stand down. Also don't put I don't mean to put
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him down, Brett Ford. But at the end of the day,
as a father, Brett said something that again southside his wheelhouse,
he knows nothing about being a black man. He knows
nothing about dealing with some of the stuff. And guess what,
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I know nothing of the sort of being bred Farb
in Mississippi or being bred far But I do know.
If Brett Farb gets pulled over and I get pulled over,
I know, damn l my black ass gets the short
end of the straw. And I'm not pulling straws with
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when it comes to my life based on my color
of my skin and bread fat would never have that.
So again, like I said, he is privileged and I am.
But his privilege of who he is saves his life.
Some of these folks walking around here that's a different
color their privilege. It's not always the same outcome. So
appreciate your time. I hope that this conversation was informative.
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If it wasn't, if you're part of those people that
are gonna slide in our dams again, either way, we're
gonna step, we're gonna keep rolling. We're gonna talk about
things that are important. And just because you're listening a
little a little bit of rap music, don't emulate the people.
It gets your ass put on a T shirt. I'm
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telling you, don't do that. God bless you. Keep on
keeping on. Yeah, Yeah, cut to It with Steve Smith.
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They's getting down to do it. Good do a good afternoon,
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Good afternoon. What's up? Hey, what's going on? Jas are
you man? I'm good? How was your weekend? Man? Weekend
was good until oh man? Yeah, the streets have been buzzing.
I'm talking about buzzing, buzzing, so, uh if if, if
you aren't aware, if you've been keeping track. Of course,
last week there was the Derek Chauvin George Floyd trial,
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and uh probably a few days ago, Brett Farve on
his podcast Bowling with Farv made a comment that, uh,
he quote, I find it hard to believe. And I'm
not defending Derek Chauvin in any way. Find it hard
to believe first of all, that he intentionally meant to
kill George Floyd. And just because of such the social
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media outroar that has come about, I want to make
sure I give what he said. He also said that
being said his actions were uncalled for. I don't care
what color the person is on the street. I don't
know what led to that video and that we saw
where his knee was on his neck, but the man
had thrown in the towel. So then you know, of course, uh,
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we have a cut to its social media account. And
so Smithie uh came back and said, what from the
I'll give straight from the horse's mouth. So I said
to Mr brat Fad, which I respect. Um, he's a
he's a he's a man that um admired. He threw
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to one of the greatest wide receivers I believe to
play in the NFL. Um uh sterling shark and should
who should be in the Hall of Fame even though
his career was cut short because of a neck injury. Um,
and just basically saying that, you know, for me, I
I really felt it was appropriate to say something about
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Brett saying something because Brett had also mentioned two or
three times and said some things that I believed to
be out of character, which he talked about how so
many people were tired of politics. He said that the
week previously, or a week a week too, or we
you know, whenever, and then the next week or two
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weeks later, you know, it's all recorded. Um what he
stated it was he doesn't believe it was intentional, that
what was happening, you know, in the trial. And I
understand you never you know, when you do something wrong,
that whatever the result is is never the intent in
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which happened. Whatever happens, I don't leave that, Brett mean
to come off come off insensitive. But it was from
from the vantage point from the vantage point of there
was a trial in which an because it was a
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trial in which your conviction and a man lost his
lost his life, whatever the circumstances are. And also the
police officer form police officer went to jail, and so
two families are now devastated. Again, I didn't say one.
I said two families, because there is a cause and effect. Now,
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what is disturbing is there's a gentleman on our Instagram,
uh Kobe or Cody. And I'll read you what he
said at on Saturday at six before you read Cody's response.
Here's here's here's what you said on social media. I
find it hard to believe and I'm not defending there's
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shoving in any way. This is that's what Brett Forbes said.
You said, I have so much respect for your career,
Hall of Fame, awards, etcetera. However, on this subject, Mr
for s T F you, which shorthand for shut up
up respectfully, real talk privileged as So that's what that's
what was sailed on. And people are saying I'm privileged,
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and we'll get to that response, and then let's just
talk about the second. This gentleman who doesn't follow us,
and he's you know, his twenty five followers, and because
he has ben kind of all the sports people are
put uh running it. So someone he some someplace or
someone he follows. He saw my response and here's what
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he said. At six am. Hey nigger, do yourself a
favor and shut the funk up and go cry a
fucking river somewhere where George Floyd can George Floyd can
swim and fucking I out of here with your black ass.
That's what he said. And it's a number of those emails.
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It's a number we got over. It's over. You're right,
she said, Bread is right. No one goes to work
intentionally harming someone. Now I like that email. That's I
like that. Damn that's she said. Okay, Well, I don't
agree to disagree. Um, you know you be quiet. Hey nigger,
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Hey nigger, Hey nigger, your clown. I'm a privilege this man.
It's so you know, it's so disappointed. Even someone says,
pull up, give me, give your give you, because I
think this is really important because people someone says you're
a clown. You you shut the funk up. You privileged
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as bitch. That's what someone said, Christopher L. Whatever his
last name is. And I'm sorry that you feel that
strongly about my statements that you're willing to list risk
your life on social media to come at me on
social media when I say privilege. Let's break breakdown, because
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here's what I think you're calling him white privilege in
our world. I'm not calling him privilege. I'm calling privilege
in this regard. If you look up the true definition
of privilege, having or enjoying one or more privileges, Well,
here's one or more privileges that we all have. George
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Floyd has no breath in his lungs anymore. So we
all have that. We all have that we can comment
on this because for George Floyd, he didn't get the
privilege of due process. He was judge, jury executioner while
he was down on the ground for non places, and
that happened other definition not subject to the usual usual
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rules or punishment or penalties because of some special circumstances.
I have some privilege. We all, what's the example that
we talked about. We talked about this the fact. Here's
the privilege I have because of who I am. I
do get the privilege of seeing both sides of the fence,
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being both sides of the fence of a black man
who has a name. So when I get pulled over, hey,
that's Steve. We know he's not doing anything illegal. So
I have gotten that privilege. I've also got the privilege
of being stopped in Monroe by a police officer who
called me boy, who told me get from around here.
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So I've had the privilege of seeing both sides of
the coin. I've had the privilege being pulled over with
my child in the back seat and the police officer says,
who's that. I had to look back like, who is
he talking to? Whose sounds like that's my child? What's
his name? You don't if you run his prince, they
ain't in a database, but you know, so I've experience
(08:00):
and seeing some of that. But I also think that
in this subject that we're talking about with Bret, Brett
farb does not having the understanding or ever has to
deal with being pulled over and dealing with what George
Floyd may have experienced. And guess what, unless I do something,
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I don't have that either. And that's the facts. But
I'm not gonna act like because you guys don't like
because I'm picking on your favorite player. He's one of
my favorite players too, But in being one of my
favorite players, I personally try to stay out of this
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game because I don't always experience some of what other
people experience. But I have watched the trial and I
did think a Hall of Famer who has such a
huge platform probably should not talk about something that he
doesn't experience in his little bubble in Mississippi. Let's be honest,
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Brett is from Mississippi. I'm from l A. There's things
that I know I have never experienced in l A
that Bret has and vice versa. But again, I'm not
gonna act like the odds of him being stereotyped his
in his bubble are severely ri and and and where
I know you were going was the way that you
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mentioned privilege was not that Brett has white privilege. I didn't.
Although that term has exist, that's not what But go ahead,
privilege doesn't equate the wealth because now everyone's firing back
on you and say, oh, you're rich. Doesn't say this.
Let me say this to all the dumbass people listening
to this. Hey, stupid asses, google me and look at
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my wife. I'm not racist. My wife is. You don't know.
You have to, but I want to because I think
that I think the ignorance of my wife is Caucasian.
My kids are mixed. I am not black panther, uh,
you know, all of whatever. But I'm just I'm just
saying because some people think they're like, oh, you're racist
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because you said because I use the words privilege, are
using this right At his core is advantage and in
this and this this and then we all have it
or be in front of the doubt and we all
have it. In this regard, everyone that is allowed to
speak has a privilege. Everyone who is allowed to speak
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has this privilege. That George Floyd does not have a
voice a heartbeat, and the other part of it, people
are like, you want you to be quiet? Respect, his
respect his Just a week before, he said that this,
this shot, this, that these two things shouldn't co exist
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while speaking on his own sports podcast. Right, so just
a week before. So now you have the privilege of
changing your mind. I don't. This isn't even like I'm
not I'm not targeting Bread. I just made I just
thought I'll say something that a lot of guys who
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text me feel in the same way. Bro, did you
hear what Brett Farbe said? Bro, there's two weeks in
a row. Bret Farber says them out of pocket stuff,
and I felt, Hey, Brett fellow alumni in the NFL,
he's Bread Farbs the Hall of Famer, he's this, he's that,
the laundry list of things. But that doesn't mean not.
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I tried, respectfully to just say this out your wheelhouse, bro, sir,
just like there's things out of my wheelhouse I will
never speak about. You know why, Because I know this
out of my wheelhouse. I have the privilege of knowing
what's out of my wheelhouse. So all the people that
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slide into the d N and it's more to dismantled
a lot of that stuff that people have said because
it's thousands and thousands of comments, and now it's been
on it's been on USA today, and it's been all
these people got something that all these people have something
to say, Oh, when you assaulted a teammate, when you
did this for that who different problems. I've addressed it all.
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I've been suspended, I've had a I've had a lawsuit
in which I've settled. But guess what, people, there was
never a CNN court played out about what happened with me,
So you can bring it up and guess what, I'm glad.
(12:46):
I'm glad your little fat fingers can take great I
didn't kill anybody. And again, I still have not said
anything towards Brett was out of pocket. I felt what
Brett said was insensitive and ultimately he's he's doing his opinion.
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But your opinion is not void without criticism, much like
anyone else's. And and going back to what you said,
like bro, you, I appreciate you explaining your position and
what a lot of people say about you, but the
fact of the matter is whatever you did or you
didn't do, you face consequences for that. You know. One
of the things that's most upsetting about how people are
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quick to call out things if they don't like what
you said, right, and all these people talk, you know,
it's it's tough to sit there and look at the
social media and all these people, Uh, well you got
thirty or forty people in our in our d m
way more than that with derogatory remark oh you need
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to your this and calling me all this everything. And
people are using I said, white privilege actually excuse as
arming that and gives them validation to basically just come
at me and say of what they probably already thought
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before you even made a comment, correct, and they're just
saying things. I'm like, who said that? Again, privilege is
not exclusive to people who played in the National Football League.
Privilege is when not a particular certain groups of people
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based on economic situation is based on privilege of it. Yeah,
it can't be of erace, but it also has to
do with especially if we're talking about an individual that
lost their life by someone else's action, the privilege of
the person that lost their life doesn't have the privilege
to voice their paying about what they experienced that cost
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them their lives. Yea, and it again, this is not
me really coming at Brett far about race is coming coming,
it's going. I'm bringing it up to Brett Farb in
this subject of the way you're talking about a breath.
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Farb would be like me trying to say that I
understand what a woman deals with in birth. Brett Farb
knows as much about being a black man as much
as I know what a woman deals with physically a
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birthing a child. I've watched it four times now. Even
with my eyes, I cannot grasp the pain that my wife,
who had our last child because the epidure didn't take natural,
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the same way that Brett Farb doesn't no exactly what
George Floyd was feeling or what Chauvin was feeling when
he realized that George Floyd was no longer locked. And
to make the comments again, it's it's not to come
at break, but it's to come at the situation. And
(16:25):
I think what he spoke, it's not like I'm just
picking U out of the thing there. So that's gonna
go to where he spoke. After twelve jurors had already
concluded that he was guilt and all charges. Let's he didn't.
It wasn't after the twelve it's after it. After it
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played itself out to due process and the detail of
and breaking down that other former police officers said of
a doctor said, yes, George Floyd had drugs in the system,
but that was not the cause for him dying. It
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was the lack that it was the fact that he
had lack of oxygen to him caused by the knee
on his throat, and so and everything you just said
on top of all those people who were there that
were part of the due process of of of this
trial were either at the scene or their access to
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things and information coming from the scene. So for for me,
I think the comments are really kind of kind of
two things. One that it comes off and we've talked
about this, it comes off almost very insensitive and apologetic
to to the officer who we just talked about was
on video killing someone. And then the second thing is
that it almost dehumanizes George Floyd, and a lot of
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these comments that we've seen in conversations that is dehumanizing,
as if because he is an alleged criminal or an
alleged drug ad or whatever else you can find on
a person to seem to make it seem like he
got what he deserves. I got a big problem with that.
Here's here's here's the thing. George Floyd had a criminal background.
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George Floyd was arrested for whatever. So does that mean
that he deserves he deserves to die? Because I've been
caught speeding? Does that mean I deserved to the punishment
doesn't fit the crime, doesn't My kids have talked back
to me, Does that mean that they deserve to die?
Or how do you or how do you think these
comments make the family of George Floyd Field or the
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family of Derek like you said, like saying so for
some people try to simplify this, and I get it,
but here we also don't think of the depth of
what the situation is. That the part that is really
simplified to me is you didn't like what I said,
you didn't like the way, or you believe that I
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don't have the I don't I should not have No, no, no, no, no,
let me use the word. I shouldn't have the privilege
to be able to talk to another athletes, especially when
the color of my skin already lowers my ranking right
because you don't want to know the interesting thing about
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all of that, every one of the people in there
are of a Caucasian race, and a lot of them
are calling me a nigga nigger with a hard art. Yep, nigga,
I'm slum, I'm black. Then you know what you know
(19:48):
it's sad is those people probably five years ago was
probably saying it a different way. I'll let that catch
that pass because it was transaction at that point. You
were doing something for them, and there's such a But
here's the other part. Now this niggad and got out
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of pocket and he's speaking about things that he shouldn't.
So now go back out to the yard and for monarchy.
But to be honest, I'd rather have to shut up
and dribble based on some of these dems because just
the way they're saying and we're saying the performative nature
(20:32):
but madness. But these some of these dems shows exactly
why we're at the place we're at in our in
our country, because when they don't like what they hear,
they turned me down and they start with the insults.
But if I come out with the insults, then yeah,
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I was gonna say you're you're there, you'd be the villain.
This so wolf the point of me saying what I
said on our social media to bread far is this one.
I don't stand down. Two I won't change because if
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you really, yes, I got in two fights, I know
the rest of the world has not. I've been the
only person I've ever got in the fist fights, so
I'll fall on that fighting sword. But also too, while
you're looking up my dirt, why don't you go ahead
and look up all the good stuff that that we
do in the communities that you're scared to go into,
(21:38):
the in the communities that we've earned the trust and
trying to change the narrative in which why when you
see a black man with tattoos, you don't clutch your
purse because, to be honest, you ain't got enough cash
in that little ass person. I got my money the clip,
(22:00):
so I'm not gonna take your little tar j purse.
I'm actually if you drop something, I may, ma'am, because
I've I've had that experience where people clutch their purse
that I want to take something. To be honest, ain't
much in there that I I ain't already got or
I can't buy for myself. I've had people closed elevator
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doors before I've I've been pulled over and then and
then profiled right like I've been like the DM we
get I've I've gotten, I've gotten the N word called
it me during football games. And what I find and
I'm in the but but what I find is when
people start to hurl the racial slurs, they've already had
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that made up in their mind. All you did was
give them probably something that goes against the grain of
their PRECONCESI what what what you've done is you've basically
you've given them the written permission to really say how
they really feel, what's in their heart of who they are,
and they've already got a and more often than not,
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it is people who have nothing else left in their tank,
Like that's that's all they got. If you hurl the
IN word at me, that lets me know, we probably
can't have a good faith conversation right now. We can't.
We can't have any type of dialogue that means that's
all that you got in your tank. Your your vocabulary
is probably already somewhat slim, so you can't. Sometimes it's
just here's also think I think they're lazy, and it's
(23:27):
a good it's a quick word they can use. Hopefully
they can get a response, right, all these people all
Brett was right. You can't say Brett was right. It's
dead ass wrong. When another man loses their life, individual, good,
bad or in different there's not never a justified CAUs
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And just because that wasn't your intent doesn't negate the result.
So so Chauvin, what that wasn't his and tent, but
somebody dies, somebody. Even the last part that Brett said,
I don't know what led to that video that we
saw where his knee is on his neck, but that
man had thrown the towel hold on that last part,
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the man had thrown in the towel are you talking
about are usually talking about George George Floyd who who died?
That that implies that George had had a fight. There
was no fair fight. This man was already detained his hand,
he was handcuffed again. But here's the thing, because he
wasn't gonna fight. You know, they always treat you like
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this when you have a fake twenty mhm. Right, But
when a guy shoots up a grocery store and all
he has is a bloody knee, that's that's right. Or
someone here in North Carolina, in South Carolina, they drove
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from one state, shot up a church full of folks
and they stopped and got, wow, it's amazing. And I'm
again you can say what you think I am. I'm
not a racist. Do I believe Brett Farb is privileged? Absolutely?
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Do I think Steve Smith Senior's privileged? Absolutely? And also
think everybody listening and the people who d m us,
y'all a privileged to because we all have the privilege
that some of the other people don't have that are
in cemeteries. They don't have the privilege to speak their
truth or speak how they feel. So yeah, we're all
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a privilege. Like you guys said, I'm a privileged nigger,
I'm a privileged clown. I'm a privileged bitch. I'm a
privilege all of that. And I take that privilege very seriously,
in which why the same clown that you now DM
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go to our website and look at what we are
doing in the community here in Charlotte, understanding and and
know what I represent. What I represent is my mother
is Florence Young, my dad is Stephen Smith. Grew up
in Los Angeles, California. We didn't have a lot of money.
God gave me the opportunity to play football. But God
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also gave me the privilege to serve my community. So
my question to you is, as you waste your time
calling me racial slurs, make sure you go serve your
community too, without a tax right off, make sure you
invest in the next George Floyd or the next showing
that we don't have the same consequences and the same
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results happening over and over. Instead of being a part
of the name calling, let's be part of the healing
for this country and for these people. So we look
at each other not because of the color of skin,
but we look at each other for who we are
as as as another gentleman. You guys don't like to
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folks like to acknowledge is the content is someone's character
and that person because of the way he stood up,
just murder them, just just murdered the same way. But
that wasn't the intention. So again I don't I don't
stand down. Also don't put I don't mean to put
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him down, Brett Ford. But at the end of the day,
as a father, Brett said something that again southside his wheelhouse,
he knows nothing about being a black man. He knows
nothing about dealing with some of the stuff. And guess what,
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I know nothing of the sort of being bred Farb
in Mississippi or being bred far But I do know.
If Brett Farb gets pulled over and I get pulled over,
I know, damn l my black ass gets the short
end of the straw. And I'm not pulling straws with
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when it comes to my life based on my color
of my skin and bread fat would never have that.
So again, like I said, he is privileged and I am.
But his privilege of who he is saves his life.
Some of these folks walking around here that's a different
color their privilege. It's not always the same outcome. So
appreciate your time. I hope that this conversation was informative.
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If it wasn't, if you're part of those people that
are gonna slide in our dams again, either way, we're
gonna step, we're gonna keep rolling. We're gonna talk about
things that are important. And just because you're listening a
little a little bit of rap music, don't emulate the people.
It gets your ass put on a T shirt. I'm
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telling you, don't do that. God bless you. Keep on
keeping on. Yeah, Yeah, cut to It with Steve Smith.
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