Mayne them statues is raycis is about all the justification they need/want to bring them down.
Barkley is an outspoken supporter of gay rights. In 2006, he told Fox Sports: "I'm a big advocate of gay marriage. If they want to get married, God bless them."
Commenting on the Ferguson unrest, Barkley called the Ferguson looters "scumbags"
Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful, not because of you white people, but because of other black people. When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out. 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. And it's a dirty, dark secret. There are a lot of black people who are unintelligent, who don't have success. It's best to knock a successful black person down because they're intelligent, they speak well, they do well in school, and they're successful... We're the only ethnic group who say, 'Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.' It's just typical BS that goes on when you're black, man.
In his response to the controversy generated by the removal of Confederate monuments as highlighted by the August, 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Barkley stated, "I’ve never thought about those statues a day in my life. I think if you asked most black people to be honest, they ain’t thought a day in their life about those stupid statues. What we as black people need to do: We need to worry about getting our education, we need to stop killing each other, we need to try to find a way to have more economic opportunity and things like that. Those things are important and significant. You know, I’m wasting time and energy [if I’m] screaming at a neo-Nazi, or [saying] ‘Man, you’ve got to take this statue down.'”
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I am not exactly seeing the issue with what was said here that allows for such a reaction. Oddly enough, there has been enough word out for the time being that there are witnesses coming forward confirming this is correct; that there was violence by both factions. Unless the President of the United States made some other comment on it that I have either glossed over or did not recognize as being "provocative" for not condemning everything that happened, this is a fairly accurate thing to say.
If anything I believe people are falling prey to the way it is being presented, what is being presented, and their very own emotions in it. Suddenly this is somehow more real because a Nazi drove a car into a crowd of people and killed one. Does it really matter who did it?
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Believe it or not I agree with you. There are BLM peeps who call for the death of policeman. However if Trump wanted to be effective, he should have waited a week or two and provided evidence of radical leftists, rather than pretty much doing what I posted.