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If a white singer dominating at the MOBOs wasn’t bad enough, now the same dude wants to lead a crusade against racism.

Sam Smith took to Twitter on Tuesday night to share his friend’s ordeal at being the victim of racial abuse.

Now this in itself isn’t a bad thing. It’s good that Sam is outraged that there are horrible people in the world that think it’s okay to attack and ridicule others just because of the colour of their skin.

Just experienced my friend getting verbally abused racially in London. I am absolutely SPEECHLESS. — Sam Smith (@samsmithworld) January 20, 2016

The problem is, Sam seems to be under the misconception that racism in London had suddenly vanished after Leona Lewis won the X Factor or something.


I never ever ever ever thought that would happen here. Absolutely speechless and hurt. — Sam Smith (@samsmithworld) January 20, 2016

He also shares just how ‘hurt’ he was, thus making the issue of racism about himself, not his mate, the actual victim of abuse.

I feel like I have to shine some sort of light on it. The police were so unhelpful in the situation and its deeply shocked me. — Sam Smith (@samsmithworld) January 20, 2016

And now he’s taking it upon himself to be a white knight and ‘shine some sort of light’ on the issue, as though hundreds of thousands of people haven’t been doing this for years.



For anyone unsure of the term ‘whitesplaining’, Smith’s tweets are a perfect example.

Thanks for finally tuning in to the cause, Sam.

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