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| Charles Barkley says politicians 'divide and conquer' based on race to 'keep their grasp on money and power' |
| 2021-04-04 |
| [Washington Examiner] Charles Barkley says politicians seek to divide people based on race to "keep their grasp on money and power." Barkley, a former athlete who is an analyst on Inside the NBA, said he finds "most white people and black people are great people," but politicians benefit by pitting them against one another. "I think our system is set up where our politicians, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, are designed to make us not like each other, so they can keep their grasp [on] money and power," he said during a CBS broadcast prior to Saturday evening's March Madness games. "They divide and conquer." Barkley said politicians don't have to live with the consequences of racial division because they don't live in the neighborhoods affected by their actions. "We are so stupid, following our politicians, whether they are Republicans or Democrats, and their only job is, 'Hey, let's make these people not like each other. We don't live in their neighborhoods. We've all got money. Let's make the whites and blacks not like each other. Let's make rich people and poor people not like each other. Let's scramble the middle class.' I truly believe that in my heart," he added. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 Just what Russia needed at that point, fer shure. Deals with the Devil end badly. |
| Posted by: Thiper Thise9679 2021-04-04 22:10 |
| #12 Funny how you can wear/display a hammer & sickle or Ché all day every day, but a swastika? No way in Hades. Both repulsive. Time for a Black Book of Communism mention. |
| Posted by: Clem 2021-04-04 22:01 |
| #11 Communist Party candidate Zyuganov Hardline Communist who didn’t want to give up the Soviet Union, chairman of the Communist Party, came out of the propaganda department. Just what Russia needed at that point, fer shure. /sarc. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-04-04 21:06 |
| #10 Who would prefer a communist over anyone? Communists are mass murderers. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2021-04-04 19:51 |
| #9 Last time I went to an NBA was Dominique Wilkins going up against Barkley as a 76 at the Omni What a show! |
| Posted by: Beavis 2021-04-04 18:41 |
| #8 Charles speaks the truth. It's all about greed for money and power. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2021-04-04 18:41 |
| #7 I used to watch the Suns. back then, a young Barkley made the news by saying "I'm not a Role Model, I'm a basketball player" He has always been true and he is the funniest man in sports. |
| Posted by: newc 2021-04-04 16:48 |
| #6 The man speaks the truth. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2021-04-04 15:44 |
| #5 Barkley is pretty smart in the way he goes about saying what he thinks. He's been pretty vocal for years now about common sense things. |
| Posted by: Chris 2021-04-04 14:46 |
| #4 He's not wrong. It's really pretty simple, actually. Look at the collusion and the conspiracy -- that's the word that TIME magazine's scribe chose to describe it -- of this nation's wealthy and powerful to destroy Trump last year. Four individuals spent about $1 billion out of their own pockets to ensure that - third-world and Tammany-style electoral shenanigans would evade scrutiny and rig the count for Biden in dozens of Democrat-dominated big cities -- this was the aim of Zuckerberg's $500 million spend - tens of thousands of released felons would have their fines paid and then be registered (and instructed) to vote for Biden in Florida, supposedly tipping the balance there and in the Electoral College -- this was the focus of Bloomberg's $200 million spend - over $100 million spent by Soros to elect far-left, pro-criminal, cop-hating Communist DAs in dozens of major US cities - $200 million blown by Steyer on attack advertising against OrangeMan A BILLUON DOLLARS. From just four individuals. That level of spending to pervert the democratic process has never happened in our history. The only remotely comparable precedent is from post-Soviet Russia in 1996, when the billionaire oligarchs who looted that country during We've become more corrupt than even Yeltsin's Russia. "Unity" - LOL |
| Posted by: Percy Clamp4497 2021-04-04 10:15 |
| #3 Sir Charles! |
| Posted by: Clem 2021-04-04 10:08 |
| #2 I always liked this guy, even though he played for the Sixers! |
| Posted by: Raj 2021-04-04 08:41 |
| #1 Everything is about 'money and power' and the struggle is not limited to politics. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-04-04 07:56 |