Rob Parker, a former Detroit News columnist,  questioned the blackness of Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III  and claimed he wasn't authentic. "Is he a brother, or is he a cornball brother,"  Parker asked.

"I keep hearing these things. We all know he  has a white fiancée. There was all this talk about he's a Republican." The  bombastic Smith had to put an end to it.

"I'm uncomfortable with where we just went,"  he said. "RGIII, the ethnicity or the color of his fiancée is none of our  business, it's irrelevant, he can live his life in whatever way he chooses. The  braids that he has in his hair, that's his business, that's his life, he can  live his life."