Barkley said that young black men who do well in school are accused of “acting white” by their peers. “One of the reasons we’re never going to be successful as a whole, because of other black people. And for some reason we are brainwashed to think, if you’re not a thug or an idiot, you’re not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don’t break the law, you’re not a good black person.
Under the bus you now must go, Charles.
A high school teacher told me he praised a black boy for his work. The next day the kid was absent. He had ben beaten by the other blacks. He never again turned in another homework or passed a test.
Blacks are their own worst enemy. Charles, it isn’t a secret. We whites have known about his for decades.
Charles seems to have come full circle on this subject. If I remember right he was at one time considered to be conservative. Then he bought into the progg mindset. Now it appears he has come to his senses.
If so, welcome back Charles. The country needs all the help we can give it.
Sorry Charlie, but we have been told over and over that it is the White man keeping the Black man down.
Chaz is quite a conundrum...an enigma.
He says some really smart things - then follows it up with something just as stupid. He has a conservative instinct, but he beats it back with the assumption that he should be a liberal. No doubt voted Obama.
Not too different from what Dr William Cosby PhD has said many times and been roundly denigrated for an equal number of times. Yet I know that many in their community know it for the truth, it is just that the ‘leadership’ profits from the dark side of ‘plantation ownership’, ‘race baiting’ RAP and Gangsta music and victimhood status. Then again, when the MSM look to Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Oprah as ‘leaders’ and ignore Dr Willams, Dr Sowell and Dr Carson, what can we expect?
How many know what he meant when he said it's like "crabs in a barrel".
Many people love steamed Chesapeake Blue Crabs. It can be fascinating to see the Chesapeake Watermen harvest their crab pots.
They put the crabs from the crab pots into a barrel or more correctly, a bushel basket. Look closely and you notice they don’t secure lids on the baskets but none of the crabs escape.
The reason is that as soon as one of the crabs manage to claw their way to the top and freedom the other crabs pull them back into the basket.
Dang! This is something I never thought I’d see.
Excellent thoughts there Mr. Barkley. You just jumped 25-50 points in my citizenometer.
Wouldn’t it be something if the Black community expanded on this and the ones who don’t seem to consider themselves to be part of the fabric of our nation, started acting differently?
Hey, it’s a start. Now if Charles can just keep his head.
“You can Watusi yo’ ass back to Mutha’ Africa....” —School Daze, Spike Lee