re: C Barkley for the mf win ...

I'm not on a plantation

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Easy for Barkley to say coming from Mt. Richmore.

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Isn't that kind of the point though? It isn't a racial thing, it is a socioeconomic thing.

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It isn't a racial thing, it is a socioeconomic thing.

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This seems to escape most people.

Barkley also said that he wasn't sure if chattel slavery was really that bad for black people.

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“The only problem I had with Kenny’s, umm, open letter was, umm, I don’t think anytime something bad happens in the black community we have to talk about slavery. Listen, slavery is, uh, well, I shouldn’t say one of the worst things ever, because I don’t know anything about it other than what I read or what my grandmother told me.”

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LINK

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Barkley also said that he wasn't sure if chattel slavery was really that bad for black people.

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Except he actually didn't say that at all

And he's kind of right. He doesn't know how bad it was outside of what is said. He never experienced it firsthand, he never was a slave. To use it as a crutch and refer to it for everything would be disingenuous to the people who did suffer from it.

Got denied something? Well my people went through slavery! It's kind of ludicrous

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And he's kind of right. He doesn't know how bad it was outside of what is said. He never experienced it firsthand, he never was a slave.

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Well the ignorant Alabama hick should not comment on anything outside of his experiences,but that doesn't stop him from routinely giving his opinions on most things.

Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup & the thousands of other slave narratives are available to Chuck.