December 11, 2025
Pleasure Reid joined Rep. Jasmine Crockett in calling out Stephen A. Smith for his repeated assaults in opposition to Black ladies.
Pleasure Reid fired again at Stephen A. Smith’s for his remarks about her MSNBC exit, saying he unfairly criticizes Black ladies for the leisure of white audiences.
Months after Smith blamed Reid’s February MSNBC firing on her scores, Reid addressed his sample of criticism on Bare Sports activities with Cari Champion.
She highlighted Smith’s current targets—Michelle Obama, Champion, Jemele Hill, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett—and challenged him to indicate the identical depth towards his longtime rival, Michelle Beadle, who’s white, as he does towards Black ladies.
“They’re paying you, not in your quantity, my buddy. They’re paying you since you are prepared to say the nasty issues about Black people who they need to say,” Reid stated of Smith’s media offers. “You’re prepared to take their denigration of Black ladies and put it within the mouth of a Negro. And since you’re prepared to place the denigration of Black ladies particularly right into a Negro’s mouth, you now suppose that ‘Oh, I have to be a freaking political genius.’ However simply be clear, you’re not being paid in your numbers, you’re being paid for what you’re prepared to do to us for white individuals’s leisure.”
@carichampion Half 1 of two. The dialog deserves 2 episodes. On this episode of NakedSports- @Pleasure Ann Reid joins me to debate all things- her time after MSNBC. Her ideas on the place we’re headed as a rustic. She additionally shares her ideas on the #Diddy documentary! And lastly- her phrases for Stephen A Smith. She stated what she stated. @Black Impact Podcast Community ♬ authentic sound – championcari
On the subject of scores, Reid stated Smith has no floor to critique her numbers.
“He stated I bought fired for scores, and I’m like, ‘Excuse me, sir. You bought 100 million {dollars} for a present with half my scores at my worst,’” Reid quipped. “I needed to actually Google his numbers. I’m like, ‘How many individuals take heed to his present? Is it like 4 million individuals?’ Dude, that’s like common CNN. That’s not that prime.”
Reid’s remarks got here weeks after he responded to common sports activities radio host Dan Le Batard’s declare that Smith was being “used as a really useful gizmo by the proper.”
“I’m very conscious of what’s happening, I simply don’t care as a lot as you do, Dan Le Batard,” Smith stated on an episode of his Sirius XM present, Straight Shooter. “I don’t care as a lot as different individuals would possibly care as a result of guess what, I don’t really feel the way in which that you simply really feel, and I don’t share your politics.”
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