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Former NBA star Charles Barkley seems to have come a good distance from 4 years in the past when he was primarily siding with Kentucky Legal professional Common Daniel Cameron in defending the cops who killed Breonna Taylor. Now, the person who’s all the time one off-color comment away from sounding like a Black conservative lapdog himself is threatening to punch MAGA-loving Black individuals within the face if he catches them out in public repping their orangey-white supremacist messiah.
Throughout a latest episode of Barkley’s present with Gayle King on CNN, the retired energy ahead responded to Donald Trump counting on racist stereotypes and pretend solidarity with oppressed Black individuals to woo Black voters. As we beforehand reported, final month, Trump was talking on the Black Conservative Federation Gala in South Carolina (which unsurprisingly had a largely white viewers), the place the man who spearheaded the propaganda-reliant assault on crucial race concept and DEI mentioned Black voters will align with him as a result of he too has confronted injustice by the hands of our authorized system, and since he has a mugshot and he thinks Black individuals love mugshots for no matter purpose. (As a result of he’s racist. That’s the explanation.)
Effectively, Barkley was having none of Trump’s two-faced white nonsense.
“If I see a Black individual strolling round with a Trump mug shot, I’m gonna punch him within the face,” Barkley informed King.
Barkley mentioned this in response to Trump’s insistence that his mugshot on a t-shirt has change into well-liked with Black individuals, which is delusional. But when a Black individual was seen in mentioned shirt—and bonus factors if additionally they had a pair of Trump’s “Air Treason” sneakers to match—then yeah, that individual can get punched within the face. (I’m joking. We at NewsOne don’t condone violence in any type, but when a Black man in a Trump mugshot t-shirt occurred to journey over his Trump sneaker shoelaces and fall face-first into somebody’s fist, I’m simply saying that’s what I name a “completely satisfied accident.”)
King tried to push again on Barkley’s menace to assault Black individuals in Trump mugshot apparel saying, “You actually can’t say that, as a result of…you don’t imply that.” She additionally famous that Barkley can be arrested, to which he merely mentioned he would “bail myself out and go have fun.”
“If I used to be at that convention, I might have gotten up and walked out,” Barkley continued, including that Trump’s comparability of precise Black historical past to “a billionaire” who’s being prosecuted for “stuff he did mistaken” was insulting to Black individuals.
Exterior of the truth that Trump has but to be discovered responsible in a court docket of legislation, which King identified, Barkley isn’t mistaken. Trump is a rich white man from a rich white household who is barely being held accountable for his personal actions. Simply because the commander-in-losing-and-lying views that because the equal of Jim Crow doesn’t make it so. However the actual insult is that Trump is citing systemic racism in opposition to Black individuals as a self-serving frequent floor narrative when he spent his presidency pretending systemic racism in opposition to Black individuals doesn’t exist and promoted laws that reinforces that white denial.
“I obtained indicted for nothing, for one thing that’s nothing,” Trump mentioned final month. “And lots of people mentioned that’s why the Black individuals like me, as a result of they’ve been damage so badly and discriminated in opposition to, they usually really seen me as I’m being discriminated in opposition to.
Right here’s what I wrote about this beforehand:
This proper here’s a significantly manipulative type of racism that needs to be likened to a slave grasp gaslighting slaves by pretending to share of their lack of freedom. Once more, Trump is the orangey-white nationalist who made CRT-bashing well-liked with Republicans and white conservatives. He additionally issued an government order banning range coaching within the office throughout his presidency, and even now, he’s promising to finish all DEI applications throughout America if he’s elected once more. So, out of 1 facet of his neck, Trump is pretending to search out frequent floor with Black individuals as a result of we “have been damage so badly and discriminated in opposition to,” and out of the opposite facet, he’s promising to place an finish to each effort to appropriate racial discrimination, which he has all the time denied or downplayed the existence of till now when it advantages his marketing campaign.
I’m not saying we should always punch them, I’m simply saying they’re very punchable.
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