Stephen A. Smith called out far-right influencer and self-proclaimed white nationalist Laura Loomer on Wednesday, over her recent racist attack at several Black women.
“I mean, can we get to a point where we can get some class? I’m not even asking to emulate Michelle Obama; when they go low, we go high. How about being decent?” Smith said on Wednesday’s episode of his “Straight Shooter” podcast.
Loomer seems to be remaining unapologetic in the face of backlash after calling a number of Black women, including Florida Senate candidate Angie Nixon and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, “ghetto, entitled, race-obsessed, destructive black bitches.”
The far-right influencer, who campaigned with President Donald Trump, said, “I’m going to call out these jihadist Muslims. I’m going to call out the ghetto black bitches. I’m going to call out whoever I want to call out because I’ve already been canceled.”
Watch her comments below.
Smith defended the women Loomer named in her tirade, demanding that she focus on the issues rather than name-calling.
“What’s your real problem? Is your real problem that somebody like Angela Nixon wants Medicaid for all?” Smith said. “Is it a problem for you that she’s about working families and working wages? Is it a problem for you that she wants grocery prices lowered?”
He went on to join others in questioning Trump about his closeness with Loomer in light of her controversial statements.
“So how do you feel about this, President Trump? You cool with that? Is that somebody you want advising you? I’m just asking,” he said.
Smith also challenged Loomer, asking the far-right pundit, “Do you have any idea what a ghetto B woman would do to you if you said that to their face?”
Loomer doubled down in a bizarre social media reply to Smith’s monologue:
“And yes. I would say it to her face. What is she going to do? Is she gon pop a cap in my cracker ass and yank my weave to put whitey in her place?” Loomer wrote in a post referencing Nixon on X. “Or is that too ghetto? You feelz me?”
Smith’s defense of Black women comes after he lashed out at the National Association of Black Journalists for “awarding” him a Thumbs Down for his “recurring public pattern of disparaging public commentary directed at prominent Black women across politics, sports and media.”
The sports commentator came under fire last year for criticizing Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) language as “rhetoric for the streets,” which he later apologized for, but also clashed with former MSNBC host Joy Reid over his remarks about prominent Black people.