Donald Trump defeated Hall of Fame basketball player turned Hall of Fame broadcaster Charles Barkley.
The most outspoken, funny and politically incorrect athlete since Muhammad Ali has been transformed into a black gatekeeper at the forefront of the secular, globalist elite who hold the purse strings. Sir Charles is more likely to share pronouns that support the Alphabet Mafia than to say anything that will stir up Trump-haters.
This week, Barkley, sitting alongside fellow Black gatekeeper Gayle King, threatened to beat up any Black person she saw wearing a T-shirt with President Trump’s mugshot on it.
Like all good gatekeepers, Berkley believes that black people are cornering the market with a sense of victimhood. It’s a simple worldview. But it permeates throughout modern American culture.
Berkeley argues that Donald Trump cannot experience injustice because he is rich and was elected president.
Let me give you a little context. In his stump speech, Trump boasted that he felt black voters could empathize with and like him because the criminal justice system was unfairly used to punish him. Many black experts have argued that President Trump committed serious racism by comparing himself to a black person. As far as I know, Sir Charles is the only commentator to threaten violence on this issue.
“If I were there [rally], I would have gotten up and walked out,” Barkley continued. “That was an insult to all black people. … That’s not a fair comparison. He’s a billionaire. He’s had a great life. He’s been president of the United States. He’s been discriminated against for years. It just pissed me off that they would put black people in the same category and insult them.”
President Trump’s public identification of himself as a victim is worth fighting for in the minds of black Americans, who have embraced victimhood as a unique and important identity. Mr. Trump committed some kind of cultural appropriation or identity theft.
It is our mission to be victims. That’s how we claim power and justify special treatment. We frame any injustice we experience as a result of “discrimination.”
If the Bloods or Crips killed your cousin, that’s a byproduct of the slavery some of our ancestors experienced 160 years ago. If a white man kills your cousin, you can petition the court for racial enhancement penalties. Your deceased cousin’s legacy is determined by the race of the murderer.
Murder is a form of injustice. We have made “discrimination” the golden rule of injustice. It is dishonest, divisive, and counterproductive.
I don’t know if Mr. Berkeley really believes what he’s saying. It’s certainly illogical.
Berkeley argues that Donald Trump cannot experience injustice because he is rich and was elected president. got it. Please describe John Kennedy. Was President Kennedy wronged on November 22, 1963? Kennedy’s father was one of the richest men in America.
Injustice has no color. It can and does attack anyone.
Mr. Barclay is likely to argue that Mr. Trump has not been wronged. Are you okay. There are people, including me, who do not believe that George Floyd was wronged on May 25, 2020.
It’s all just an opinion. Everyone has one.
Trump and his supporters believe he is being unfairly targeted by his political opponents. That belief is shared by a growing number of black people. Mr. Berkeley wants to threaten violence against black people. They are not allowed to think as they please. They must adopt Berkeley’s view of Trump.
Berkeley is the gatekeeper, the watchdog of the black heart.
why? What has changed?
In 2015, while serving as an editor at ESPN, I oversaw and edited a major profile article about Berkeley written by Jesse Washington. The article explained Berkeley’s habitually nonconformist views about race and America. In the first section of the profile, we analyzed and discussed Barkley’s MLK His Day comments on the set of his NBA Studio His Show on TNT that same year.
“Civil rights mean a lot to me, coming from Alabama,” Barkley said. “And my grandmother, who is the greatest person in my life, always told me, there are a lot of people doing the heavy lifting to make you successful. , one thing you don’t want to do is mess it up.
“One of the problems we have in the black community is there’s a lot of self-harm. You can’t do that.”
It was typical Charles Barkley before Trump took office in 2016. The profile article argued that Berkeley’s worldview was shaped by the legacy of Booker T. Washington, a black American educator and author of the late 1800s and early 1900s who founded Tuskegee University in Alabama. Washington’s autobiography, “Recovering from Slavery,” was the inspiration for the title of a profile article written about Berkeley. “I’m from Leeds.”
Barkley grew up in Leeds, Alabama. He attended Auburn University. His worldview was strongly influenced by Washington.
Berkeley’s worldview is now shaped by Trump’s derangement. I’d like to call it self-inflicted, but I don’t think that’s accurate. Berkeley is just doing what he’s told. To protect his huge paycheck, Berkeley gave up the perspective that made him unique and must-see television and resonated with working-class people of all skin colors.
Berkeley was Trump before Trump beat him.
