Black Publication Calls Charles Barkley a ‘Black White Supremacist’

Last week, Charles Barkley claimed that too much attention has been paid to Confederate monuments and that he hasn’t once thought about them in his 54-year life.

The Root writer Michael Harriot argues that those comments prove Barkley is a “black white supremacist” in an article published online this week.

Unsurprisingly, Barkley, whose viewpoints consistently coincide with those of the oppressors of black America, decided that the best way to solve the race problem in America was to make a space on his national platform for white supremacist Richard Spencer.

But it was the second part of Barkley’s comments on Thursday that really raised eyebrows and tightened anuses:

What we as black people need to do, we need to worry about getting our education. We need to stop killing each other. We need to try to find a way to have more economic opportunity and things like that. Those things are important and significant.
Apparently, Barkley believes that black people aren’t worried about “getting our education.” He parrots the same perspective as white people who interrupt every black liberation argument with, “But what about black-on-black crime?” He obviously believes that black people miss out on economic opportunities because we are in the club “making it rain” or buying big rims for our shiny new cars.

Here’s an important piece of advice: Whenever anyone begins a sentence with “What we as black people need to do is … ,” stop listening immediately. What is sure to follow will either be:

1: A platitude you can get from any corner barbershop like “Unite, and trust in Jesus”

2: Something very Hotepish that combines the wisdom of ancient Egypt with jailhouse logic

3:White-people solutions

You’ve heard white-people solutions before. “White-people solutions” are the Caucasian answers to all black problems: “White people circulate their dollar 120,333 times in the white community before it leaves their neighborhood.” “White people start reading to their kids when they are still a sperm.” “White people invest their money in stocks, pork futures and private prisons.”

To be clear, these aren’t solutions for or by white people. Instead, they are the imaginings of black people who are white supremacists. Black white supremacists believe that the only correct way to do things is how they envision the white man would do it. A black white supremacist could never find anything wrong with a white man’s methodology, so he or she continually contorts him- or herself to end up on the Caucasian side of the argument.

And this is the difference between independent thinkers and black white supremacists. Most independent thinkers sometimes have legitimate disagreements with the accepted opinions of black America, but black white supremacists never find fault with white America, which means that everything ailing black people is black people’s fault. For them, nothing—not even the monuments of white supremacy—is the fault of racism. We’re just doing it wrong.

People like Harriot, who would rather attack white America than criticize his own community, are the people who are standing in the way of black advancement — not Barkley.

Of course, Harriot was willing to condemn one black individual. His article about Barkley was filed under the tag “stupid negroes.”

Source: The Root