Just like everyone else, Stephen A. Smith didn’t hold back when it came to his thoughts on the BET Awards especially when it came to O.J. Simpson being honored.
Smith can be heard questioning why Simpson would be honored when he didn’t care about the black community. “When that kind of stuff happens how do you think that benefits us and that’s a story we don’t get into nearly as much as we should. I’m not blaming any of the folks there in the audience they didn’t know and even though BET is owned by Paramount, it’s still BET and black folks are everywhere and that’s what we’re celebrating? We as a community are going to be held accountable for that,” the sports analyst said.
The show, which aired Sunday, included an “in memoriam” segment that showed recently deceased icons including O.J. Simpson, who was accused and later acquitted of killing his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in the mid-1990s.
“My attitude is this: O.J. Simpson never gave a s*** about Black people until he was indicted,” Simpson said. “Forget the fact that in memoriam he was celebrated, he was mentioned … this is the BET Awards.”
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