“Black on Black crime,” is a pejorative myth weaponized to pathologize Black responses to interlocking systems of oppression such as residential segregation, persistent poverty, hyper-policing, and poorly funded/resourced public schools.
I wish someone would’ve told Chuck this.
I wish someone would’ve told Chuck this.
Listen to Barkley spew all of this vacuous nonsense. It’s not just his ignoring the systemic oppression that undergirds violence in Black communities, and work being done to combat it. Or that his whole lecture was soaked in respectability politics.
It’s that NOBODY checked him.
It’s that NOBODY checked him.
#Reminder: Charles Barkley called Black folks involved in the Ferguson Uprising some “scumbags.” He used Ferguson and the death of Mike Brown as an opportunity to justify police racially profiling Black folks. And Barkley agreed with the grand jury in not indicting Darren Wilson. 
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