Stephen A. Smith, Max Kellerman and Ryan Clark discuss the importance of honoring Juneteenth.
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Hey, white American and black American and anybody who is between you going stop buying hip hop music that has racial slurs in their lyrics and everybody knows what I'm talking about. If your going after Aunt Jemima Brand lets be fair then need to go after Hip Hop music because if you don't then you are creating a double standard
STEPHEN A SMITH ISN'T ADOS… ALL THIS WE TALK… SMH
I hate it when people talk about history when they no nothing about it
Every celebrity or athlete these days is forced to be liberal otherwise you won't be what you are today… That is sad.
How. Are black people oppressed they make up 75 percent of the nba and nfl
Cousin Max be preaching bro
How you celebrate Cinco de Mayo and St. Patrick's Day, but not Juneteenth? Makes no sense.
considering……imagine being done with a civil war…….but "territories" still allowed slaves…….and the political bs that would have had tied to it as far as running a business or etc and exploitation aspects…..and "texas" role in the year of 1865…….its like a celebration indeed of "added consideration" or an acknowledgement as such…….speaking primarily as a POC not a black man. It strikes a tune of legitimacy much like suffrage in 1920…..little moments where we actually see legitimacy to our nation/failed state. The actual ratification of abolition came later…..yet hasnt really been touched on or made into a hallmark card section……ironically enough…..2020 is the only year this holiday may see coverage……and of the people ive seen circulating their "sentiments" on social media…..theyve proven they are still "co-opting" their effort in the "MOVEMENT" smdh…..more or less a byproduct of the mis-information campaign. But yeah as a POC i feel it should be a national holiday that proves non POC actually have consideration for others etc that in america we do have actual Americans that uphold what the flag stands for….aka the legitimacy juneteenth represents for our failed state……is why it needs to be a holiday.
i think people had enough! it's bullcrap. another black individual got shot since protest, couple more got murdered by hanging, etc. no change at all so why the media, sports media, pro athelete pushing this beloni?
we get off school for Yom Kippur & Rosh Hashanah, but not for Juneteenth?
LOL at this fake holiday that no cared about 2 weeks ago. SAS sure sounds like kurapp today. Its AMAZING how Obama got elected back in 2008 amongst all of the these food companies, statues, flags, police brutality, etc
George Floyd ain’t dead. Congrats just like u fell for 9/11, Covid and now this!
Free Huey!
It's a joke just like BLM
KELLERMANS brother killed by a black man…Butler even he assaulted the winner after he was declared the loser. sucker punch the POOH outta him. you guys can have black history month, juneteenth…
Forget all this nonsense double talk. All these corporate shills refuse to say the most important word… REPARATIONS.
SAS has zero credibility on this subject. Just sayin…
On this topic it’s just hard to take Stephen A seriously because of how much he flip flops
make it easier…take HISTORY out of schools.
SAS ain't going to say too much to jeopardize that blood money
Happy Juneteenth ✊🏿✊🏿
Don’t ignore that even after Juneteenth, we had another 100 years of PEONAGE SLAVERY and JIM CROW SOUTH.
Just made a YT channel & a vid paying tribute to this special day. Happy Juneteenth everyone!
It’s funny how he say he a Christian and that we have to do the research but he didn’t research the religion he so proud to claim
The Emancipation Proclamation is the official date. Juneteenth is just when the last few blacks in Texas found out about it.
In 1800, my grandpa took a knee…..to reach down and grab his whip to smack your grandpa with. Lol 😂
Whats ladies name…research purposes
Whoever disliked this video is racist !
If it's so important, why didn't Obama make it a national holiday?
If I wanted to hear politics there are numerous news channels to watch. I thought this was a sports channel.
Do any of them realize the 19th was mentioned by many scholars before this year? Now people want to recognize it because of the current political climate, it demonstrates black folks haven’t done their job. Many have relied on Caucasian to teach them about themselves instead of researching the information. This is why Caucasian don’t respect you because you don’t respect you. This shouldn’t be a conversation when folks like SAS and Ryan Clark are suppose to be so called black. This is why I say learn your heritage and culture because you cannot rely on anyone to teach you about people that look like you.
The fact they don’t teach you what Juneteenth is in school is beyond me. But they also didn’t teach us about black Wall Street
Blacks are funny – they are big on symbolic stuff, holidays, gold chains, chrome rims…but not substantive things like a two-parent household with fathers sticking around to raise their sons.
I literally learned what Juneteenth was today.
Was next buy G "HUH"
Why not criticize other black people for killing innocent black people
Stephen A . What about retired officer Dorn ? What about 2 elderly killed at a cemetery? Ho I forgot he was looking for a swimming pool
To train for the Olympics. He wasn't jogging? Were is lebron about these poor souls???
Max said it best “Black people aren’t playing about this” THIS IS THE ONE
Honor it by never celebrating it before hahaha what a joke
It’s hard to take Stephen A seriously
Max is just always dropping real talks
Rule #1 don't ask for favors
Stephan A. why bother talking about how racism has affected us? You enjoy racism because you're still fighting for INCLUSION, not LIBERATION!!!
No1 cares… we're just happy it would be a day off work. Let's be Honest!
Only a racist bigot would disagree with celebrating freedom. This is a great day for all of us
None of them even know American history lololol
Jokecenter 2020 is virtue signaling again…. click. Zzzzzzzzzzzz
What does SAS know about this he or his family not even from America. They didn’t even come here till the 60’s
SAS probably will say something dumb, while Max represents us.
Blacks are the real Biblical Hebrews!