Walt S.I. article eviscerating Charles Barkley and his embrace by the media

[714562]

Good substance in the article, but Walt needs to go easy on the punctuation. The text is cluttered with em dashes and parenthetical explanations. Gotta cut that shyt down. Otherwise, I really enjoyed reading.

 

[tuckgod]

Click the X

 

[dagodmcizme]

Good fukking read.

 

[Clayton Endicott]

I'm just gonna let the smilies do the talking

 

[Edub]

You can never go wrong by using James Baldwin to open a story.



Will America ever tire of Charles Barkley’s clumsy act?

Will America ever tire of Charles Barkley’s clumsy act?
T.D. Williams
If both of you can laugh, you have a lot to laugh about. On the other hand, if only one of you can laugh, one of you, inevitably, is laughing at the other. — James Baldwin

Two decades ago Charles Barkley infamously cautioned us he was not a role model. He has made as much clear again and again and again and again and again over the course of his careers as a professional basketball player and an NBA analyst. He’s a notorious (and arguably proud) drinker, an avid gambler, and an ill-tempered putdown artist. He has spit at a fan (and, inadvertently, on a child), thrown a man through a plate-glass window and — as he subsequently lie bleeding — suggested that the man deserved to die,threatened police with violence, and driven drunkenly in search of a repeat performance of the best fellatio he ever had from a prostitute.

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(And I didn't even read the article yet)

 

[Majestyx]

@Walt

 

[Art Barr]

Damn, Walt......

Destroyed Charles Barkley into particles like zaxxon.

Art Barr

 

[verbaltelekinesis]

@Walt

I'm so gawd damned proud!

Salute to you my nikka!

 

[larsattack]

Or whether his intended audience will ever realize that, much like the minstrels of pre-civil rights era America, Barkley functions merely to reassure his audience — barricaded inside a pen of their own innocence — of its outstanding credit rating in the midst of moral bankruptcy

 

[LEEeveryday]

Just read it @Walt

"As a thinker, he is even lazier than he was as a player, but with none of the God-given gifts to counterbalance his intellectual indolence."


"Basketball is the one thing in life Sir Charles had a true talent for, and yet somehow he still can’t produce any legitimate insights for his audience about the game."


"Sadly, when what we most need is intelligence, insight, and moral guidance, TNT’s sanctioning such an uninformed, polarizing, and counterproductive voice to quarterback a show about race in America is unforgivable."


"In Barkley’s case, you get the sense he has played the clown for so long, and has been so handsomely rewarded for it, he long ago lost the border between the self and the costume. "





If I'm Charles Barkely, we'd just have to fight breh....that shyt was

 

[EndDomination]

@Walt

 

[Rekkapryde]

This is part of it. If you are black and have no issue with criticizing black people in public they will have no problem putting you on TV

Raven Simone
Wendy Williams
Stacy Dash
Barkely
Etc

I just don't believe Barkley is conscious of how out of touch, wrong and ignorant he sounds on a lot of these issues. He's just emboldend by his popularity

Yup, he's being used and is too blind to see it

 

[MrFettuccinnePockets]

Great article @Walt

 

[Brozay]

Who are you flexin at? The Discussion is noted about me or me and I never got the memo.



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Im not duck or frontin for nothin.

This dude really thinks the notifications are about him

 

[DJDONTNOBODYPAYME]

This dude really thinks the notifications are about him

Because im legit and I scare some of you. That's why