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| Meet Sir Charles Barkley |
Continued Barkley, “the notion that white cops are out there just killing black people – that’s ridiculous. That’s just flat-out ridiculous. I challenge any black person to try to make that point. Cops are actually awesome. They are the only thing in the ghetto between this place being the wild, wild west. So this notion that cops are out there just killing black men is ridiculous and I hate that narrative coming out of this entire situation.”
Barkley called the Ferguson militants “scumbags” for looting and setting businesses on fire after officer Darren Wilson was not indicted in the death of Michael Brown.
“We’ve always had a racial issue in this country and the biggest problem with it is we never discuss race until something bad happens. We never have meaningful dialogue over a cold beer when things are going good.
When something bad happens, everybody has a tribe mentality. Everybody wants to protect their own tribe, whether they’re right or wrong.
We as black people, we got a lot of crooks. We can’t just wait until something like this happens. We have to look at ourselves in the mirror.
There’s a reason they racially profile us at times. Sometimes it’s wrong, sometimes it’s right. To act like we hold no responsibility for some of this stuff is disingenuous.”
Concluded Barkley, “every time something happens in the black community, we have the same cast of sad characters. We don’t have to have Al Sharpton go there. We need some strong black men in St. Louis to stand up and say - hey, let’s handle this situation."
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