ESPN’s Paul Finebaum slammed fellow sports talker Stephen A. Smith for Smith’s “terribly unfair” decision to make the issues surrounding the future of Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin all about race.

Smith threw the race card on Wednesday’s First Take when the panel was discussing whether Kiffin should bow out of Ole Miss and get in the running for a coaching position in the SEC, or Florida, or LSU.

Kiffin’s Rebels are at 10-1 right now and are no. 6 in the College Football Playoff rankings, but Smith saw a way to shoehorn race into the issue, according to the New York Post .

“Let’s get this out of the way. Now, listen, ladies and gentlemen, I’m gonna say it. Y’all can’t say it. Don’t you dare say it, Paul. Don’t you dare say it, Doggie. Don’t you say it, Shae. Leave it to me. I’ll say i

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