“When we gonna look at ourselves when it comes to black people being killed in the streets of America? I don’t even want to get into what happened in Chicago, but I have no choice,” Smith said.

According to Smith, there is a double standard in the media about black deaths. When police kill a black person, there is “holy hell.” But there are only crickets when black people kill each other.

“If one black person was killed by the police, we’d raise holy hell, and in some cases there’d be riots in the streets,” he said. “What I’m saying is: Where’s the due diligence when it comes to putting a spotlight on what we are doing to each other?

“This s*** is pissing me off,” Smith screamed.

[Smith’s always interesting. I’d love to interview him and have a real debate. However, he’s wrong on reparations to Japan. The US paid reparations to Japanese-Americans, not Japan, and not for Hiroshima but for their unjust and unconstitutional internment in the US. And in that case, we limited those reparations to only those who had been interned, not all of their descendants. The US still refuses to apologize for the atomic weapons attacks on Japan in WWII and considers them a valid response to Japan’s total-war footing at the time. — Ed]