Sir Charles Barkley versus Kenny Smith: Who is "The Blackest" One of All? What is "Black" in America Today?
From Kenny Smith's perspective on why he is so offended by Sir Charles Barkley's comments, he would know from personal experience as an expert why he himself epitomizes everything alongside the vastly left-wing media what Barkley stated to be a fundamental truth. He lives to perpetuate stereotypes that as he turns his head to the opposite end, the media refuses to accept and will openly employ it to trigger racially-charged conflicts of interest for the sole purpose of selling out his own racial demographic for political expediency. It is not Sir Charles who is wrong, and he at least admits he is no role model for America's youth. It is Kenny Smith the hypocrite who epitomizes why black men and women always have to be "Uncle Toms" if they strive to leave the Democratic Party's plantation of morbid poverty from cradle to death, if they manage to survive the mother's womb through abortionists' targeting.
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| Former NBA Stars and Current TNT NBA Analysts Kenny Smith (Left) and Pro Basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley (Right) |
Per Kenny Smith's own words from the article, where he retracts his own statement twice while simultaneously backpedaling:
"The body of work that our Black Civil Rights leaders put in by planning, executing and activating does not justify you being in the conversation. While your body of work on the court very few compare to nor should be mentioned when you are giving your expert analysis. Again, I respect that you have an opinion on Ferguson. And here’s mine.
The question must be asked: Why is there so much distrust in the police and the legal system from the African American community? Without manifesting what the effects of slavery still have today, Dec 1st still marks only 59 years since Rosa Parks sat on that memorable bus. Many of our parents and grandparents have lived through those times and have passed those stories on to all of us. Those civil rights changes were at one time the law! They were not illegal."
These charges by Smith, incendiary and among the most hypocritical I have ever read or listened to on television, attacked Sir Charles' claims as printed by The Washington Post directly from his interview on CNN, a noted left-leaning cable news network:
“Them jackasses who are looting. Those aren’t real black people, those are scumbags. The real black people, they’re not out there looting. I just watched on CNN where a bunch of folks, really amazing folks wouldn’t let them burn down an establishment. It was a great story. I was in Philly this summer when I saw four black kids who left money in a store when there was nobody in the store. … We only put the negative black people on television. We don’t put the good, hard-working black people. …
There’s a perception among some black people that if you’re not a thug or hood rat or if you don’t war your pants around by your ass, you’re not black enough. They’re always holding us back, plain and simple.”
Barkley had stated the following on October 28 printed by Sports on Earth in a far more brutal indictment of the racial divide exploited and expanded by the Obama administration and the Rev. Al Sharpton:
"It's a dirty secret in the black community. If you're not a thug with a criminal record, or just a jackass, people think you're not black enough. If you're doing well at school, you're acting white. If you speak intelligently, you're acting white. That's bullshit. That's why we, as black people, are struggling. We don't have great respect for each other. Russell Wilson was black enough last year when they were winning. Now that they're losing, he's not black enough? I don't think he changed in six months."
Sir Charles wins this match off the hardwood as well; and Kenny Smith, in employing an age-old cliche, is the pot calling the kettle black in order to advance his own social and political agenda. If he wishes to sell out the black community, to promote the gangbang culture the media is intent to only cover in order to boost ratings, he is as guilty as Sharpton for undermining the spirit of the American Dream by decrying the sins of our ancestors and forefathers and demanding that the white community of the 21st Century pay dearly with our blood. By what Smith asserted, the white community will forever be epitomized as a generalization as entirely racist in the dubious tradition the Ku Klux Klan, Simon Legree and Jim Crow birthed. The American Dream is based not upon the judgment of the color of one's skin according to Martin Luther King, Jr., but by the content of one's character. Sadly, Smith lost touch with that very critical lesson while he rose to fame and wealth through his own basketball prowess and now profiles Barkley publicly as an "Uncle Tom", whether or not the inference was intended.
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