Kenny Smith's open letter to Charles Barkley:

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Glad Kenny wrote this. I was waiting for him to say something after Trayvon Martin stuff last year and Barkley's comments.

i really hope they bring this up on inside the nba. i know they supposed to talk and joke about basketball. but ill take an hour of the inside the nba crew talking about this topic right here. SOME ISSUES ARE BIGGER THAN SPORTS.
Nah, at the end of hte day they are a basketball show. None of those dudes are qualified to talk about this. They need to focus on basketball.

I don't want any of them really commenting on this either.
 

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Yep. The conservatives punks like Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck are going to frame his comment into a deflective weapon to deflect racism, and used Chuck's opinion as a pass to commence racial diatribe on black people. Speaking from my suspicions, I often think that Chuck is unaware that he is being use as a pawn by conservative media. Kenny as a true friend notice the tactical scheme by the right media and stepping in to slow down Chuck from spewing asinine opinion in regard of racial issues. I hope Kenny could convince Chuck to stay away from the media if the discussion isn't related to sports.
I get that but at the same time who is Kenny to tell another man what he should and shouldn't do? F*ck Barkley and his c00nin' azz but seems like he's been tryin' to get his conservative right wing spokesmen on for a minute now. He's a Republican who lives in Arizona and is married to a white woman. He's been on this sh*t for a years, this ain't an overnight thing with him. He's aware of what he's doing and with the media. He's no dummy. Kenny says he's not qualified but were in a age where qualifications are literally thrown out the window. Every other chick is a model, every other male is an artist, everyone is a fashion designer, ceo, or expert on something, etc. Its a different world now. Sh*tting on fellow black folks is profitable in today's media for turncoats. Ain't nobody puttin' a mike to his face or inviting him on shows if he's stickin' up for us. But if he goes down this route he's gotta keep tap dancin and stay in good favor or else out comes the skeletons and they'll 'Bill Cosby' is azz
 

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Props to Kenny, he kept it as real as he could without throwing chuck under the bus...I like how he basically called out those fox clowns for using Chuck's opinion as a political weapon for their agenda...I honestly don't think Chuck realizes what he says is being taken seriously in the world of politics but that's still not an excuse for some of the shyt he says...
 

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Kenny's letter is beyond stupid. more woe is us. We poor. We ain't got nothing better to do, so we act like ignorant a$$holes. GATWTFOH with that bullshyt. Hold your self accountable first.
 

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Glad Kenny wrote this. I was waiting for him to say something after Trayvon Martin stuff last year and Barkley's comments.


Nah, at the end of hte day they are a basketball show. None of those dudes are qualified to talk about this. They need to focus on basketball.

I don't want any of them really commenting on this either.
What kind of stupidass shyt is that? What makes you fukktards "qualififed" to talk about anything, yet yall do. Charles, Kenny & Ernie are allowed to have opinions. Fucck Shaq though. What makes anyone qualified to speak on anything?
 

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its a shame he has to explain this to a fellow black man :smh:
He didn't explain anything. he talked a bunch of nonsense. The fact that youd idn't have rights and that you could be thrown in jail for simply being black so have given blacks more pride, but these new niglets don't give a fukk about shyt and want to blame everything on poverty and racism. It's a bullshyt copout.
 

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What kind of stupidass shyt is that? What makes you fukktards "qualififed" to talk about anything, yet yall do. Charles, Kenny & Ernie are allowed to have opinions. Fucck Shaq though. What makes anyone qualified to speak on anything?
well I for one will not be asking @Danny Up his views on the latest trends in neuroscience.

The Social Sciences are in fact science. People actually do real research on this stuff and have great insights that they actually found through their studies. Thats how people get qualified.

None of us are qualified to speak on race. We can speak on OUR experiences but we have not done any research on this.

Now if you want to comment on neuroscience, physiology, or microbiology, then go for it. If you have done research in those fields, then sure. But I have a sneaking feeling you havent.


Barkley and Smith are experts in basketball. Let them talk freely about that, instead of being on eggshells about a topic they are not experts.
 

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well I for one will not be asking @Danny Up his views on the latest trends in neuroscience.

The Social Sciences are in fact science. People actually do real research on this stuff and have great insights that they actually found through their studies. Thats how people get qualified.

None of us are qualified to speak on race. We can speak on OUR experiences but we have not done any research on this.

Now if you want to comment on neuroscience, physiology, or microbiology, then go for it. If you have done research in those fields, then sure. But I have a sneaking feeling you havent.


Barkley and Smith are experts in basketball. Let them talk freely about that, instead of being on eggshells about a topic they are not experts.
Ain't nobody an expert on shyt. It's all opinions and theories.
 
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