QUOTE TO REFLECT ON FOR TODAY by Charles Barkley: On a Philadelphia radio show, Barkley spoke about the dirty little secret of how “when you’re black you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people.” When black kids succeed in school, he explained, “the loser kids tell them you’re acting white.” In general, there are too many blacks who think that “it’s best to knock a successful black person down ’cause they’re intelligent, they speak well, they do well in school, and they’re successful.” “We’re the only ethnic group,” he added for good measure, in characteristic Barkley style, “that says, ‘Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred. ” READ MORE nypost/2014/10/27/barkleys-brilliance-slams-acting-white-idiocy/
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:35:19 +0000