Charles Barkley at times has some very good points and then he says something extremely stupid. I agree with him that there are bad apples in every race, but every race isn’t racially profiled for it.
Barkley passes a lot of the blame of death on Eric Garner on Garner himself. Even though it is documented they used an illegal chokehold.
But, even more troubling is his thoughts on racial profiling.
But he also noted that racial profiling does occur, and sometimes it isn’t a bad thing.
“We, as black people, we got a lot of crooks. … There’s a reason they racially profile us at times. Sometimes it’s wrong, but sometimes it’s right.”
No, Charles it is never a GOOD thing to be racially profiled. We shouldn’t be judge because as Barkley says it, there are a lot of black crooks. There are a lot of white crooks as well, but they don’t have to worry about being profile, so why should we? Why should black people be treated differently by cops because of other criminals? That is quite possibly the most asinine statement I have ever heard in my life.
No one should be profiled just because their race has criminals in it, all races has criminals. If a white person robs a store, they aren’t profiling the next white person who is shopping there, so why should I be profiled because a black person robbed a store? It is this type of backwards thinking that make people angry. White people will take Barkley’s comments and think what they are doing is right, when it isn’t and frankly that is sad.
You can watch a portion of the interview below courtesy of Sporting News.