The Democrats don’t want any of their perceived constituency to wander off the plantation they’ve created.
NBA analyst Charles Barkley drew heavy criticism from the black community this week, simply for refusing to condemn Confederate statues and calling for an end to black-on-black crime.
Michael Harriot, a writer for The Root, blasted the former NBA basketball star in a piece titled, “Charles Barkley Is a Great Example of a Black White Supremacist”after Barkley infuriated the black community last week with his stance on Confederate monuments and flags.
Barkley told a Birmingham, Alabama, news station that he felt time and energy spent debating the viability and necessity of Confederate monuments was a “waste.”
In the same interview, Barkley also attacked black-on-black crime and noted that blacks should get their acts together by uniting instead of dividing.
Harriot’s analysis of Barkley was scathing — in addition to calling the basketball player a “white supremacist,” he begged the question of “Why won’t Charles Barkley shut the f*** up?”
“Is there anyone who thinks that Barkley’s statements about race reveal anything other than his repeated willingness to throw black people under the bus for our stupid unwillingness to assimilate into whiteness?” Harriot wrote.
Harriot said that Barkley’s comments on race serve only to “coincide with those of the oppressors of Black America.” Harriot even went so far as to say that, if a black person begins a sentence with “What we as black people need to do is …,” then people should “stop listening immediately.”
Further, the writer said that too many people believe that the only solutions to black issues are “white-people solutions,” and that only “black white supremacists” find nothing wrong with a “white man’s methodology.”
The end result, according to Harriot, is ending up “on the Caucasian side of the argument.”
Harriot concluded:
Barkley answered a question about monuments to white supremacy by going into a rant about black-on-black crime and insinuating that it somehow had something to do with black people being dumb and poor. Because Barkley doesn’t want to hear logic. He is a true believer in the infallibility and superiority of whiteness.
Because Charles Barkley is a white supremacist.
Via The Blaze