# Don Lemon’s Race-Baiting Meltdown: Attacking Stephen A. Smith for Defending an ICE Agent’s Righteous Shoot

In a jaw-dropping display of identity politics run amok, ex-CNN hack Don Lemon has lobbed a baseless accusation at ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, claiming his defense of an ICE agent’s use of lethal force against Renee Good—a wanted illegal alien who charged at him with a knife—is nothing more than pandering to white people. For context, this stems from a viral incident where Good, a Honduran national with a rap sheet including assault and resisting arrest, lunged at the agent during an arrest attempt in Maryland. Bodycam footage clearly shows the agent issuing repeated commands to drop the knife before firing in clear self-defense—a textbook good shoot that any reasonable person (or jury) would back. Smith’s sin? Calling it out for what it was on his show, emphasizing that ICE agents deserve the same Second Amendment protections as any law-abiding citizen facing a deadly threat. Lemon, ever the race-obsessed grifter, twisted this into cozying up to white people, ignoring the facts to score cheap racial points.

This isn’t just celebrity infighting; it’s a microcosm of how the left’s gun-grabbers weaponize race to undermine self-defense rights. Lemon’s smear sidesteps the core issue: Good wasn’t some innocent victim but a violent criminal illegally in the country, knife in hand, forcing a split-second decision. By framing Smith’s support as racial betrayal, Lemon echoes the same playbook used against 2A defenders in high-profile cases like the Kyle Rittenhouse trial or the Waukesha parade massacre—where self-defense is recast as white supremacy to erode the Castle Doctrine and stand-your-ground laws. Smith, a black man who’s built a career on straight talk, rightly pushed back, but the damage is in the narrative: it conditions the public to view armed self-defense, especially by law enforcement on the border, as suspect if it doesn’t fit the oppressed minority script.

For the 2A community, the implications are crystal clear and urgent. This rhetoric bolsters the anti-ICE, open-borders crowd’s push to disarm agents and citizens alike, painting legitimate force as racist vigilantism. It dovetails with Biden-era policies slashing ICE funding and releasing violent migrants, leaving agents—and by extension, all Americans—more vulnerable. Pro-2A warriors should amplify Smith’s take: arm ICE fully, train them rigorously, and defend their right to carry without apology. Lemon’s tantrum proves the left fears armed patriots protecting the homeland—because a knife-wielding thug dropping in self-defense shatters their mostly peaceful migrant myth. Stay vigilant, stay strapped, and keep calling out the race-baiters. The border is our border, and our rights don’t bend to CNN sob stories.