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.
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