Charles Barkley attacks the mendacity of blacks who accuse others of 'acting white'

Rich Lowry:

No one to this point had doubted that Super Bowl-winning Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson is black. His great-great-grandfather was a slave emancipated after the Civil War. His grandfather was president of Norfolk State University, a historically black college.

At least no one had doubted until columnist Mike Freeman of the web site Bleacher Report wrote that the source of tensions in the Seahawks locker room might be “that some of the black players think Wilson isn’t black enough.”

Not black enough? This set basketball great and uninhibited sports commentator Charles Barkley on an epic rant.

On a Philadelphia radio show, Barkley spoke about the dirty little secret of how “when you’re black you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people.”

When black kids succeed in school, he explained, “the loser kids tell them you’re acting white.”

In general, there are too many blacks who think that “it’s best to knock a successful black person down ’cause they’re intelligent, they speak well, they do well in school, and they’re successful.”

“We’re the only ethnic group,” he added for good measure, in characteristic Barkley style, “that says, ‘Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.’ ”
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Barkley is demonstrating in that one statement more black leadership than Al Sharpton has in his entire life.  I hope he keeps it up.  There would be more successful blacks if they took his message to heart.  Racism is a disease even when practiced by blacks.