Controversy has never deterred Stephen A. Smith in the past and he isn’t backing down from it now. In his latest rant on the black community, Smith makes some statements that might not be accepted very well.

The ESPN host and analyst believes every black person in America should vote Republican one time. Not one time in their life time, but all during the same election. He believes this would send a message to both parties that our issues cannot be taken from granted, our votes matter and our issues must be dealt with as those of the Jews, Irish and white people in general.

Speaking Tuesday at the Impact Symposium at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Smith says, “What I dream is that for one election, just one, every black person in America vote Republican.”

He goes on to explain:

From what I’ve read, Barry Goldwater is going against Lyndon B. Johnson. He’s your Republican candidate; he is completely against the civil rights movement. Lyndon B. Johnson was in favor of it — civil rights legislation. What happens is, he wins office, Barry Goldwater loses office, but there was a Senate, a Republican Senate, that pushed the votes to the president’s desk. It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation — the southern Dixiecrats. So because President Lyndon B. Johnson was a Democrat, black America assumed the Democrats were for it.

Smith believes blacks voting for Republican Party would be a way to get both parties to pay attention to our issues and be forced to do something about them.

Smith believes blacks voting for Republican Party would be a way to get both parties to pay attention to our issues and be forced to do something about them.

Smith continues:

Black folks in America are telling one party, “We don’t give a damn about you.” They’re telling the other party, “You’ve got our vote.” Therefore, you have labeled yourself “disenfranchised” because one party knows they’ve got you under their thumb. The other party knows they’ll never get you and nobody comes to address your interest.

Smith went on to say when someone is shopping for a car or a house, you don’t just look at one. We need to do the same with our politics in the black community.

Smith said:

“We don’t do that with politics,” he lamented, “and then we blame white America for our disenfranchisement.”

There is no doubt the black community votes democratic and most of us know why. The Republican party has had a terrible history with our issues, but I wonder does Smith have a point?

SOUND OFF: What do you think of Smith’s wish for Black America to vote GOP? Does he have a point?

Source & Audio: Mediaite