Megyn Kelly is on the roasting table on the socials as she’s been trashed and branded as a racist for saying the Black National Anthem didn’t need to be sung at Super Bowl LVIII.
Well, someone is here to jump into her defense and that’s controversial sports analyst Stephen A. Smith. According to Smith, he doesn’t see Kelly’s statement to be racist as people claim.
This is what Kelly wrote after Andra Day’s rendition of the black hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing”;
“Does not belong at the Super Bowl. We already have a National Anthem and it includes EVERYONE.”
And here is Stephen Smith’s defense to Kelly’s statement;
“I don’t know Megyn Kelly at all, OK? I don’t find her statement to be racist,” Smith said on Monday’s episode of “The Stephen A. Smith Show.”
Yesss Andra Day sing that National Black Anthem so beautifully ☺️😌😍🖤🖤🖤 #SuperBowl2024 #SuperBowl pic.twitter.com/piXVA06All
— BlackBird444 (@Aye_Yo_Jo33) February 11, 2024
“I find it to be, in her eyes, patriotic. I find it to be, in her eyes, self-righteous. I find her to be a bit detached from reality being faced by black Americans everywhere. I got that part, but I can’t go in the way that I wanted to go in about her when people are out there — from my community — just throwing out the word ‘racist,’” Smith added during a monologue earlier reported on by Mediaite.
“You don’t know that about her.”
He continued: “I’m sick and tired of folks out there — particularly in the black community — being so quick to throw out the word ‘racism.’”
“When you throw out the word ‘racism,’ do me a favor: have more evidence before you do it so it can’t be dismissed via plausible deniability or something else.”
What about the White National Anthem? Hispanic? Asain?
— Big Daddy (@BigDaddyLCL) February 12, 2024
Still, “Megyn Kelly, if you’re watching, you’re listening. I don’t like what you said at all. I think it comes across as highly insensitive,” Smith said, adding that he had “profound respect” for the former Fox host.
Fans also had this to say about Megyn Kelly’s tweet.
One fan said the hymn was created “to cause division.”
“100%!! People are trying to bring segregation back.. Dr. Martin Luther king is rolling in his grave,” a third chimed in.
“Truly can’t fathom being this miserable a person,” one user wrote.
We have only one country therefore we only have one National Anthem.
The creation of a so called "Black National Anthem" is an attempt to divide this country further.
Sad how you all fall in line and do what you are told.— Maximus FedUpWithUS (@Steamman19) February 12, 2024
“She’s live tweeting observations about a game she supposedly hates everything about,” another said.
It’s Megyn Kelly’s opinion yet she’s getting branded a racist and trashed for it. That’s not fair and I think Stephen A. Smith jumping to her defense is in the right direction.
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