Steve Responds to Brett Favre

you aren't aware, if you've been keeping track. Of course, last week there was the Derek Chauvin George Floyd trial, 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 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, 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 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 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

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 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 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, 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 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, 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

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. 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, 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 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 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 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 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, 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.

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

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, 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 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,

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 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 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 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

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 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 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.

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 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. 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. 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. 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 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

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 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

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 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. 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

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, 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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

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, 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 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, 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, 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 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

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, 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 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 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, 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 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 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?

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 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 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

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 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 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

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, 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 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.

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 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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