Kenny Smith's open letter to Charles Barkley:

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

It's his homie so I can kinda see why he didn't. But there was no reason at all to stroke his ego the way that he did. All that best PF shyt wasnt needed.

Kenny was toeing the line something serious. Should have outright said Charles was wrong than all of that

I agree with you.

shyt started off like he was introducing him at the Hall Of Fame and shyt.

shyt sounded like he was bout to drop that thang on him. Usually when you do a good news-bad news buffer, that's what one would succeed with - a total strip down, demoralization of what they've said (although I didn't expect him to start giving him Procyon characteristics), but he just tip-toed his way through all that. I appreciate the sentiment from Kenny, cause somebody on Chuck's level needed to check him. It just wasn't enough to fill my gut.

 

[superunknown23]

I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.

— Charles Barkley

 

[The Nigerian]

Athletes are soooo pvssy.

 

[JahBuhLun]

Kenny was toeing the line something serious. Should have outright said Charles was wrong than all of that

But in that last paragraph, you can tell he wanted to go there, its like he typed "remember when you were throwing people through windows, spitting on lil white girls and driving drunk?" but decided to delete it.

 

[FLORIDA BOI]

Kenny is from NYC, they were taught not to fear the white establishment and speak out. Chuck is from Alabama, they were taught to fear and be submissive to white power. thats why we saw no protesting in Alabama, Mississippi, and lots of southern states..... Chuck is and always been a c00n

I'm feelin this 100% I'm from florida closer to alabama allot of my Nikkas I grew up with

ain't on the teachings about nothing past we were slaves . So to be able to fukk white hoes and have a

job and make good money is all good to them . NY type Nikkas more of them are up on game as far as

the real power structure and challenging it than my southern folks IMO.

 

[NYC Rebel]

But in that last paragraph, you can tell he wanted to go there, its like he typed "remember when you were throwing people through windows, spitting on lil white girls and driving drunk?" but decided to delete it.

Lol. Yup. Lots of ambivalence throughout the entire joint

 

[Mr swag]

Gonna be awkward tonight on TNT

 

[pete clemenza]

Letter is just to get nikkas to keep watching after Charles Barkley took a shyt on black folks

Exactly.. Barkley could be f*ckin' with Kenny, Shaq's, hell even Ernie's money by runnin' his mouth like this. Alot of black and brown folks f*cks with Inside The NBA. Gotta make sure they stay tuned in despite Charles runnin' with the tea party

 

[No1]

Gonna be awkward tonight on TNT

Not tunin in so I will not kno

 

[bzb]

just watched these dudes on tnt. i'm very disappointed in how kenny backed down from the points he made in the open letter. he had an opportunity to address the issue head on and back up what he said, but he just ho'd out.

they are all avoiding the discussion of how excessive force is disproportionately used against minorities by police. none of them kept it real.

 

[FukyourFort]

they all c00ned hard as hell...lost a lot of respect for shaq and kenny

 

[Da King]

Had me til he said this isn't race related

c00ny Smith doesn't want to upset his white sponsors

Only an idiot or a liar would say it's not a race issue

 

[Versa]

Interestingly enough, Charles said he knows nothing about slavery when he has been sounding like master's pet for years now.

I had it recorded it on the phone, so I'm watching now and I'm already expecting Kenny and Shaq to be on some cowardly shyt.

 

[AVXL]

they all c00ned hard as hell...lost a lot of respect for shaq and kenny

Shaq didn't really bring anything fresh to the discussion, but Kenny referred back to the letter...it's about building trust between our community & the police and there is none. I had no problem with the looters/rioters personally b/c like Kenny said people are going to react to that type of situation in many ways (doesn't always make it right, but whatever). I thought Kenny & Chuck had a good debate and even if you don't agree with what Chuck said, I thought it was well put together by TNT to allow them to talk about it on air for 10 minutes with no distractions

 

[pete clemenza]

Wtf was Kenny saying ? Nicca sounded like Yosemite Sam or Mushmouth