re: Charles Barkley: ‘Unintelligent’ Blacks ‘Brainwashed’ to reject success

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Some back story. Wilson's parents were Ivy League. Therefore, they hung out with whites and stressed academic excellence. Very few gangstas at Harvard.

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Sounds like the Obamas.

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Wilson continued through college to hang out with whites and make good grades and now he's getting the treatment from some of his black team mates.

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Grant Hill had to put up with that same crap when he played at Duke. Even Jalen Rose made some ignorant comments about him.

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Same thing happened with Tiger Woods. He only associated with whites at Stanford and married the whitest woman on earth. Jet Magazine ripped him for denying his blackness. He insisted on calling himself mixed...Cablanasian

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What some Blacks took exception with is when Tiger Woods told Oprah that he's "offended" when people refer to him as Black. How do you think Italian-Americans would have reacted if Joe DiMaggio said that he was offended when people referred to him as Italian? How do you think Irish-Americans, Hispanic-Americans or Jewish-Americans would react if one of their own rejected them?

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His advisers said "Tiger, if you want to keep getting millions of dollars in endorsements...you have to be black." He has since had no problem referring to himself as black. Money talks.

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I heard that Bobby Jindal had a similar talking to when he was hanging out with only White girls: "Son, if you want to go anywhere in politics, you better find yourself a nice Indian girl."