Charles Barkley: Off The Leftist Plantation

Charles Barkley: ‘Unintelligent’ Blacks ‘Brainwashed’ To Keep Successful Black Men Down

"NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley spoke candidly about the problems facing the black community when appearing on a Philadelphia radio station, accusing “unintelligent,” “brainwashed” African-Americans of keeping successful ones down.

While appearing on “Afternoons with Anthony Gargano and Rob Ellis,” Barkley was asked about a rumor that Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson was getting criticism from his black teammates for not being, quote, “black enough.”

Barkley went on a long monologue on the subject: ”Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we’re never going to be successful, not because of you white people, but because of other black people. When you’re black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It’s a dirty, dark secret; I’m glad it’s coming out.”

Barkley said that young black men who do well in school are accused of “acting white” by their peers. “One of the reasons we’re never going to be successful as a whole, because of other black people. And for some reason we are brainwashed to think, if you’re not a thug or an idiot, you’re not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don’t break the law, you’re not a good black person. And it’s a dirty, dark secret.”

“There are a lot of black people who are unintelligent, who don’t have success,” he continued. “It’s best to knock a successful black person down because they’re intelligent, they speak well, they do well in school, and they’re successful…”

“We’re the only ethnic group who say, ‘Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.’ It’s just typical BS that goes on when you’re black, man.”"

It's not possible to know from the outside exactly what the motivation for peer suppression is. But the effect of it is to maintain the Victimhood status of the group. If too many blacks escape the group boundaries it makes obvious the fact that all, or at least most, of the group could escape as well. That would destroy the comfy codependent relationship with the Messiahs which provides for them, with foodstamps, welfare checks, cheap abortion and now healthcare, all on the Man. (Also cheap entry level into home ownership, which leads to disaster including housing/credit crises.)

"Street Cred" follows this model perfectly: prison is oppression and the imprisoned have been oppressed, but are toughened by the experience. Being maintained in this ethnic condition by the injection of minimal support from the whiny Messiahs who weep for them when in the spotlight more than do anything for them, the Victimhood group members are congealed into an anti-group: anti-character, anti-employment, anti-"white", anti-everything "whites" stand for like education and law and consequences. And the term "white" morphs to include blacks who don't stay on the leftist plantation. The at least partly self-imposed plantation.

The first book I read devoted to this was "The Big Black Lie", by Kevin Jackson. He, along with other blacks who leave the Victimhood class, was "not black enough" either. Barkley will get his share of that, shortly. Others who have spoken against the Victimhood process include Thomas Sowell and the niece of Martin Luther King, Alveda King. Some, like Bill Cosby, seem to flit on and off the plantation without notice. Others like Obama never were anywhere near the plantation which he maintains without apology, including his own relatives.