Stephen A. Smith tells everyone in media or not to act accordingly.
Van Lathan, familiar to many for his time on TMZ and now the host of The Higher Learning podcast with Rachel Lindsay, suggests that this current moment is too important to focus on distractions like listening to Stephen A. Smith. Instead he urges people to “raise their voice” and speak up. Now is not the time to be quiet. Others suggest that Smith’s response to the Jimmy Kimmel suspension is his way of getting a foot in the door to realizing his dream to host a late night network talk show. ABC-TV and ESPN are owned by the same company- Disney. Smith’s motivation and his capitulation is very apparent to those paying attention.