We can’t get past worrying about disagreement, so we don’t have meaningful conversations to make a difference. I think people want to do better, I really do. In I Might Be Wrong, Barkley says, “The hardest but most important thing is to get a dialogue going on racial issues.
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They gave us a little fish, instead of teaching us how to fish.” All the liberals have done is give the black man an inferiority complex. He’s achieved true greatness.” Many years ago he said, “I look at all my old friends in the ‘hood, and they’re in the same place they’ve always been. After spending four hours with Clarence Thomas, he said, “I think I’m smart, but I was learning on the go talking with him. I was asking her, ‘Why are we Democrats?’ She said, ‘Republicans are only for rich people.’ And I said, ‘I’m rich.’ And she hasn’t given me a viable answer.” The person he’d most like to meet is Colin Powell. I made a joke with my grandmother one time. Quizzed by Robert Novak on CNN’s Crossfire as to whether he was a Republican or a Democrat, Barkley said, “I’m not either, to be honest with you. But now he can contradict himself every other day or every other game or every other sentence, can recharge the moment with meaning, whether it’s a pick-and-roll or a racial incident. If Barkley were ever to run for political office-he’s repeatedly threatened to run for governor of his native Alabama as a Republican-he’d be constrained by certain ideologies. I mean, that is the ultimate good-old-boy network.” Not exactly The Fire Next Time.
Most of the golf courses I play have no black members, a lot of them don’t have Jewish members, and some of them don’t have women. But I’m smart enough to know that it’s just comedy.” Asked whether women deserve to be members at Augusta National Golf Course, Barkley said, “No, because it’s a private club. I wish they hadn’t said the thing about Dr. Belafonte also.” Asked about characters in the film Barbershop making fun of Rosa Parks, Jesse Jackson, and Martin Luther King, Barkley said, “I had no problem with the movie. On CNN’s Talkback Live, asked for his response to Harry Belafonte calling Colin Powell, in effect, a house nigger, Barkley said, “Well, it’s unfortunate, because I love Colin Powell. When pressed on matters of politics or race, he inevitably settles for the medium-range jumper. Barkley has nothing in common with such ideologues, but it’s instructive that the press release would compare him to someone on the right and someone on the left, since Barkley’s appeal is, precisely, that he transcends political labels, that for all his storm and noise he’s resolutely middle-of-the-road. Where Keyes is confrontational and humorless, Barkley is the NBA’s reassuring rebel, the candid huggy-bear, a weird admixture of Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.īarkley’s new book, I May Be Wrong, but I Doubt It, has just been published by Random House, whose press release compares him to Bill O’Reilly and Molly Ivins. And Barkley in no way resembles Alan Keyes. Barkley’s monster ups deserted him years ago: He now weighs 300 pounds.
Sports Illustrated recently called Charles Barkley, the power-forward-turned-TV-host, “Alan Keyes with monster ups.” This gets him exactly wrong.
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