Charles Barkley rants about Russell Wilson being called ‘not black enough’

[BronxBoy]

61. This is what I posted yesterday about this....

I agree with Charles one hundred percent. And I suspect that many, probably the majority, of a lot of our people feel the same way. I think that the majority of people who might get upset with Charles will do so not because of the the substance of what he said but more because he said it "in front of company" These issues do get discussed in Black households as do "thugs", "saggy pants" and the street cred mentality. I'm sure that once my wife sees Sir Charles' comments, we'll be discussing it again.

Someone posted a thread in GD the other day about how we need to really have a national discussion about race. The day was nice and I didn't participate too much in the thread but I did post that I don't think we will ever to that point because it would mean that groups would need to take a hard look at problems in their communities and then discuss them with other groups. This is a good example of that. Not many people want to have this type of conversation in the light of day and potentially subject themselves to some very unflattering criticism.

And Black people aren't the only group that feels this way. I remember reading an article back in the 80's when the junk bond scandals were jumping off. The article had a quote from a wall streeter who was Jewish. They had just released a large collection of indictments and this person recounted the shame and dread he felt upon seeing that so many of the targets of the indictments had Jewish surnames.

So rather than being mad at Charles, I do hope that his comments lead to even more discussion about some of the pathologies within our community