Commentator Stephen A. Smith pushed back against Barack Obama’s remarks last week after the former US president chastised a group of young black men over their reluctance to vote for a female president.
While campaigning for Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh last week, Obama chastised a group of young black males urging them to vote along racial lines, saying it was “not acceptable” to refuse to vote for the Democrat nominee simply because she’s a woman.
Smith did not like Obama’s condescending lecture, accusing him of talking down to black men as if they aren’t experiencing skyrocketing gas and grocery prices, while witnessing the federal government handing out thousands to illegal aliens.
Obama jumped the shark.
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“I’m going to say it again. Respectfully, what you said is not acceptable. Not to me. Not to a host of Black men out there – who’s not even thinking about voting for Donald Trump. What you said is unacceptable. What ever happened to disagreeing without being disagreeable, President Obama?” Smith asked on The Stephen A. Smith show this week.
Smith went on to point out many in the black community feel the Biden-Harris administration has contributed to runaway inflation and is prioritizing illegal aliens over black Americans.
“Inflation. The cost of living. The price of gas. The price of groceries. That don’t matter? Immigration and our borders, and this belief that there’s an elevated level of sensitivity towards them [illegals], as opposed to black folks struggling, if not starving in this country.”
He continued, “When the mayor of New York was talking about $53 million in prepaid credit cards for immigrants who came across our borders illegally and having prepaid credit cards for them — and I said, ‘Wait a minute, black folks been starving for years. We ain’t get that!'”
“You don’t think they notice?” Smith asked Obama.
“Is it possible that the only reason some black folks, not me, may not be inclined to vote or they may be a bit disenchanted or dare I say me even be willing to go as far as voting for Donald Trump… Is it possible that it’s policy as opposed to misogyny?”
Following Obama’s lecture, several black men rebuked his remarks, arguing they would not be guilted, shamed, or bullied into voting for Kamala.
Watch Smith’s full segment below: