Conservative sportscaster Sage Steele once again ruffled feathers last week, when during a public forum she posed that she's experienced more racism from her own race than she has from anyone else.

Steele has been under fire for weeks, ever since she blasted protesters for disrupting her flight plans at the height of airport demonstrations triggered by President Trump's travel ban. During her appearance at New Jersey's The Crossing Church for an event titled "Under Our Skin: A Forum on Race and Faith", Steele saw an opportunity to raise the scrutiny she faced, as a means of characterizing African Americans as hypocritical, seeing how according to her, they constituted the majority of critics who lashed out against her for criticising the protests.

“The worst racism that I have received [as a biracial woman married to white man], and I mean thousands and thousands over the years, is from black people, who in my mind thought would be the most accepting because there has been that experience," said Steele. “But even as recent as the last couple of weeks, the words that I have had thrown at me I can’t repeat here and it’s 99 percent from people with my skin color. But if a white person said those words to me, what would happen?”

It isn't the first time Steele has spoke out about her treatment from African Americans, specifically, when breaking from the general consensus in the black community. Back in November, she gained quite a few critics when she criticized football star Mike Evans for briefly vowing to sit out the National Anthem in light of Trump's election victory.

"We — as people of color — continue to cry for racial equality, diversity and acceptance, and rightfully so. That said, why must we continue to tear down those within our own race? Why must we shun those within our own race who think differently?" Steele said at the time.

Source: theshaderoom.com