Some People Say That Stephen A. Smith Is A "Buck Dancer": Comments From Various YouTube Podcasts About Stephen A. Smith's Appearance On The Sean Hannity Show & His Subsequent Apologies

Roland S. Martin, April 19, 2024 #RolandMartinUnfiltered #BlackStarNetwork #BringTheFunk

Roland Martin deconstructs Stephen A. Smith talking Trump on Fox News' Hannity.

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Edited by Azizi Powell

Latest revision - April 30, 2024

This is the third post in a three part pancocojams series about the African American disparaging definition of "buck dancing" and tap dancing.

This post showcases a podcast reaction video about sports celebrity's Stephen A Smith's April 18,2024 comments on Fox News' Sean Hannity's show. 

This post also presents selected comments from the discussion thread of that podcast and from a six other African American podcasts. The African American host/s of these podcasts address Stephen A. Smith's appearance on Sean Hannity's show and his (Smith's) subsequent apology videos. Most of these comments include references to the African American disparaging meaning or connotation of the term "buck dance", "tap dance", or "shuckin and jivin".
  
Click  https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/04/why-african-americans-equate-tap.html "Why African Americans Equate Tap Dancing With Shuckin' And Jivin' & "Uncle Tomming" for the first post in that series. 

Click for the second post in that pancocojams series.

The content of this post is presented for historical and cultural purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to all those whose podcasts associated with the YouTube podcasts that are embedded or linked in this post.

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
This pancocojams post and Part III of this pancocojams series document a small sample of the numerous online negative comments from African Americans about African American sports commenter Stephen A Smith. My focus in these post is to document a small sample of comments that use the disparaging meanings of buck dancing or tap dancing which allude to or directly use those dance terms as metaphors for acting like a clown, acting like a fool, and/or shuckin and jivin, and/or "tomming".

Except for parts of these selected comments, neither of these two pancocojams posts present the reasons why commenters pictured or referred to Stephen A. Smith negatively as a "buck dancer" or as a "tap dancer". People who are interested in learning more about some of the reasons why so many African Americans commenters have such negative opinions about Steven A Smith are encouraged to view these showcased videos and read their discussion threads.

That said, for the record, among other things, I strongly agree with the many commenters in 2024 who lambasted Stephen A Smith for his comments comparing Trump problems with the United States criminal justice system and African Americans' treatment by the United States criminal justice system. 

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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM VARIOUS AFRICAN AMERICAN PODCAST
This pancocojams post documents the use by African Americans of disparaging meanings of "buck dancing", "tap dancing", and "shuckin and jivin" for historical and cultural purposes. As it happens, the viral nature of the Stephen A Smith's recent controversy provides multiple online examples of the disparaging meanings of these words.
   
These are only a small sample of comments from six African American podcasts/vlogs on YouTube that have been published since April 18, 2024 about Stephen A Smith's comments on the Sean Hannity show and his subsequent apologies about those comments. To say that this subject has gone viral on the internet among many African Americans would be an understatement. Most of the discussion threads for these videos include disparaging references to Stephen A. Smith buck dancing or negatively refer to him as a buck dancer or tap dancer, or shuckin and jivin. 

The links to the six YouTube sources for these selected comments are given in no particular order and are numbered for referencing purposes only. Based on their African American hosts and their focus on African American cultural issues, my assumption is that most of the commenters in the discussion threads for these videos are African Americans.

All of these comments were published on YouTube between April 18, 2024 and April 28, 2024.

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VIDEO SOURCE #1
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQxCbhq2kzc

1. @Chris-po8if
"SAS BEEN Buck dancing since he came on the scene. I can't believe people are just realizing it."

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2. @missa7562
"his shucking and jiving for his friend sean hannity cost him our respect."

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3. @yennev
"Steven A Smith bugging his eyes out , Bobbing His head and Neck , Tooting out His Lips. May work on your Sports Station.! That doesn't work outside of sports.! Not a good look.!

Chucking ,Jiving , Handkerchief Head Wearing

With your LoGo behind you getting free advertising on FOXNEWS.. Sean Laughing at you. Bad look you can't take back.!"

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4. @55YoLefty
"Add SAS 2 the list of buck dancin', "yes massah", step n fetchin' ninjas.  He said what he said.  He should've stood on it.  Shame on him.  It was already hard 4 me 2 watch him on ESPN's basketball coverage.  I'll never watch that dude again."

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5. @herminaedwards5242
"Good for you! Let the buck dancers dance by themselves, no props from the real black people!"

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VIDEO SOURCE #2
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK_SODSVetA&t=7s [This is the video that is embedded in this post.]

1. @Marie70272
"Stephen A Smith is a step- n- fetch it ..Roland broke it down for Mr. Step-N-Fetch it. Thank you Ro.

Stephen A. Smith is nothing but a “ talking head”..nothing significant comes out of his pie hole”

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2. @Async45
"He knows what he was doing"

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3. @zeezee-6
"@Async45 Yep, tap dancing for some bags"
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“Bags” here means “money”.

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4. @greatday1752
"Clowning for the GOP...HE DRANK THE KOOL AID!!!"

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VIDEO SOURCE #3
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLT2xx2L6zA

1.@Godfather-rn6rb
"Excellent narrative CoachD! Stephen A has long been an overpaid lip smacking Minstrel Act buffoon used for Entertaining WS."

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2. @micheleadamson9867
"Its not that he doesn't get it, he doesn't want to get it because he enjoys being a Bojangles.*"

*This is a disparaging referent for an African American tap dancer. 'Bill Robinson (1877–1949), a well respected [African ]American dancer and actor, known as "Bojangles" 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Robinson

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3. @titusnixon
"When they get a head scratching, We sick boss Buffoon, they get a real one. Stephen Smith is the buck dancing champion, he’s out buck dance Jason Fatlock*. Isn’t it funny how these two buck dancers can’t stand each other. That because they both want to be that go to Ninza** that the racist can point to as their friend"
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*This is probably a purposely putdown of Jason Whitlock’s last name. Jason Whitlock is an African American conservative who Stephen A. Smith has argued with and criticized on Smith's ESPN series.   

** "Ninza" is an accidental or purposely respelled form of the word "ninja". Since at least 2003, the word "ninja" has been a substitute in the United States for the "n word". Read the 2012 article entitled "Ninja: A Short History of a Less Troublesome Word" 
https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/ninja-a-short-history-of-a-less-troublesome-word/  by by Alex Pappademas for information about what that author believes is the earliest use of this custom. 

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4. @ronaldrheinhardt3679
"Stephen A and Whitlock are racing to get into Uncle Tom’s Cabin where Justice Thomas has doors locked."

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5. MelvinHouston-ir2vj
"I lost all my respect for Stephen fetchit"

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6.  @granvellhill2616
"Roland Martin crushed SAS and his nonsense as hard as the coach just did!!! SAS doesn't represent the black community he's too busy tap dancing for fox & hannity smh!!!"

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7. @benniegossett9006
"the tap dancer has always been a shoe shiner'

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9. @vallen9879
"Stephen A. Smith a Hit Dog Will Always Holla  keep barking and dancing"

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10. @willkeeping1800
"Stevie boy a is just trying to show his masters that he is behind them and for them buck dancing just stay in sports and not in politics boy"

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VIDEO SOURCE #4
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv5oBscQN3c

1. @justtubing767
"Just go on and tap dance outside a Popeye's, Stephen."
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"Popeyes" is a brand of fast food restaurants that specializes in fried chicken. "Fried chicken" is considered to be a stereotypical "soul food" (African American) dish.

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2. @rafaelwinston1458
"Tap dancer!"

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3. @nonofyourbusiness7816
"Keep dancing sas maybe you'll find someone who believes you."

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4. @TheFragranceDressier
"88 accounts that’s all need to be said and people just ignore it amazing, this guy need to stop tap dancing about the polls. The polls also said in 2016 Hillary Clinton was up substantial and look what happened stop it stop it please."

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VIDEO SOURCE #5
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAhf7sdh6P4

1.@sharon4094
"No, your words were not taken out of context. I heard you and I was so sickened by you [emoji of pale red face] I could hardly breathe [emoji of sick face]  So own up to your words because nothing you said was taken out of context. You went all in. You went there, tap dancing shoes and all SAS.  You embarrassed yourself and made us look gullible and stupid. But, hey, MAGA loved it. Just look at how the far-right is praising you. I'm sure you got some new viewers out of it."

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2. @jeffgulley3261
"That ain't what black people was mad about we were mad because you compared black prosecution in  American to Trump legal battles.  But you what you was doing dance boy dance"

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3. @WokeOne75
"Are those tap shoes tight yet?"

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4. @DontH8DaPlayaH8DaGame
"He's wearing trumps golden sneakers"

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5. @Bdatoolman
"You are forever a sellout Stephen A keep buck dancing for the mouse you're now dismissed forever"
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"The mouse" is a referent for Disney. The "First Take" series that Stephen A. Smith hosts is on ESPN and ESPN is a part of Disney.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjOaHrMY0-w

1. @michaelcostello1485
"Stephen was on Fox and he was buck dancing for that audience. He's a [emoji of a clown]."

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #7
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFuQaiD5cy8

1. @thecrow7483
"If you look closely, Stephen A is wearing a pair of gold tap dancing shoes"

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2. @virgilkennedy6692
"Gold tap dancing shoes ! [followed by multiple laughing emojis and multiple clown emojis] SAS IS A CLOWN SHOW."

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3. @ronaldmccall159
"Sir Steven A has been buck dancing a long time for Masser."

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4. @BLACK7MA
"Steven A is a buck dancing Bo Jangle sell out. let's just be honest."

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