Rep. Jasmine Crockett has spoken out about how Stephen A. Smith‘s recent comments about her were disheartening, given that she’s fighting the Black community and others.
During a recent episode of journalist Don Lemon’s self-titled show, The Don Lemon Show, the topic of Black men speaking negatively about their own women came up. Joining him in the discussion was Crockett and Joy Reid.
Although the callout was for all Black men who come for Black women, it was clear that the message was aimed for Smith. As Blavity reported, Smith recently made headlines for critiquing the way Crockett conducts herself as a Congresswoman, particularly when it comes to opposing President Donald Trump.
Don Lemon and Joy Reid slammed Stephen A. Smith for how he criticized Jasmine Crockett
Lemon shared a snippet of his conversation with Crockett and Reid via Instagram.
“Can we get some of these bojankity, tap dancing, ignorant brothers out here? Black men stop attacking Black women publicly, especially when they don’t know what the F they’re taking about,” Lemon can be heard saying in defense of Crockett. “We need to be supporting each other. And if you’re going to come at somebody, come at them with some real information.”
He added, “Stop going around criticizing Black women because the s**t just ain’t right.”
Reid agreed with him: “Everybody saw the movie Django Unchained. Remember the name of the person who cared more about the love of the slave master than he did about the love of his people, or the care for his people? His name was Stephen. And Stephen was somebody who was willing to sell out his fellow African enslaved people. So, what I would say to the Stephens who are in our world today, ‘Understand that the master will never love you.'”
Jasmine Crockett said Stephen A. Smith’s criticism of her ‘does hurt’
Crockett then expressed her thoughts about the backlash she received from Smith.
“There are the people who have taken the time to understand that I always keep at the forefront the people that elected me to D.C.,” she said. “What you see if you’re not in my district may not necessarily be all the substance that also comes with me, but there is plenty of substance and if anybody ever wanted to ask, just like anything else, I always have receipts for the work that I have done.”
Crockett then thanked her fellow Black Americans who have come to her defense.
“I will just say that I appreciate the community and the culture because this is something I never even had to address or deal with, because the community decided to speak up before I even knew what was happening. So, I appreciate you,” she said.
Crockett went on to say that two people should be able to disagree with one another as long as there’s a level a respect.
“It does hurt because it’s like I expect more and better,” she noted. “And frankly, I am always down for a real conversation. I really am. I mean, but I haven’t even experienced that type of stuff coming out of even Black men on the other side of the aisle in Congress. They even have enough respect to say, ‘We disagree on this policy’ or whatever, and we’ll go back and forth, but they have not tried to do what somebody else tried to do.”
She concluded by saying, “It’s all good when you know that you’re walking in the purpose God has put on your life. I’ma keep doing me and the world will continue.”