Black conservative Ty Smith claimed that slavery wasn’t racist while appearing on FOX News on July 13, according to The Independent. Smith agreed with the host who challenged the fact that the country is systematically racist and was founded on racism. Then he said that slavery wasn’t a racist thing.
The YouTube host falsely told FOX host Martha MacCallum that the country was not founded on racism. Furthermore, he claimed that slavery wasn’t racist.
“It’s absolutely absurd because nobody really wants to get the real history of it,” said Smith. “America was not founded on racism. Don’t get me wrong. Yeah, there was slavery going on, but slavery itself was not initially a racist thing. It never was about race initially. So to sit there and take it like America was founded on racism is a complete lie. Yeah, there was slavery going on, but slavery was going on in all the world. It never was a race thing, so why are we making it a race thing now?”
Fox Guest: “There was slavery going on but itself was not initially a racist thing it never was about race… It never was a race thing so why are we making it a race thing now?” pic.twitter.com/9oBLZwQDQa
— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) July 13, 2021
Smith was seemingly unaware that the FOX News anchor was finished speaking with him as soon as she got what she wanted, a token Black person agreeing with her Republican ideology. As soon as Smith co-signed and said slavery wasn’t racist, she thanked him for his service.
The conservative was roasted on social media for his dumb comments.
Leave it to @FoxNews to put this fool on the air https://t.co/wF7Dux1KdE
— rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) July 13, 2021
How is kidnapping and enslaving an entire race of people, not about race? https://t.co/oSJG91yZmq
— Joe Madison (@MadisonSiriusXM) July 15, 2021
Guess slavery was a option as well huh Ty Smith?
— Brandon (@BA2210) July 15, 2021
Radio Host Ty Smith Says Slavery Wasn’t Racist
If that was true then those fields would have be full of
White People so Ty Smith is
ignorant and full of DUMBFUCKERY https://t.co/jz8bUPQzjb— lawana gilbert- (@Kaygirl8Lawana) July 16, 2021
Sometimes it’s best to let people talk. If @FoxNews and Ty Smith want to preach that slavery didn’t involve racism – let them do it and make fools of themselves. It’s a stupid overreach targeting a miniscule audience of idiots and delegitimizes their entire anti-CRT argument.
— David Fisher (@daveopining) July 14, 2021
Smith has appeared on FOX News before protesting the country’s history. He said that critical race theory was nonsense. He also falsely claimed that it made young people hate other races.
“To me it’s a whole bunch of nonsense, virtue signaling, playing off people’s emotion. The only race there is the human race,” he said.
Those who would like a true account of slavery in the country can read the 1619 Project.
