{"id":387228,"date":"2021-04-04T15:28:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T19:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=387228"},"modified":"2021-04-04T15:28:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T19:28:27","slug":"charles-barkley-politicians-fuel-hatred-between-whites-and-blacks-to-keep-their-grasp-on-money-and-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/charles-barkley-politicians-fuel-hatred-between-whites-and-blacks-to-keep-their-grasp-on-money-and-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Barkley: Politicians Fuel Hatred Between \u2018Whites And Blacks\u2019 To \u2018Keep Their Grasp\u2019 On \u2018Money And Power\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcharles-barkley-politicians-fuel-hatred-between-whites-and-blacks-to-keep-their-grasp-on-money-and-power%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=387228&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-147.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>During the \u201cFinal Four Show\u201d on Saturday, former NBA star and \u201c<\/span><span>Inside the NBA\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><span>analyst Charles Barkley said that politicians intentionally fuel racial divides in order to \u201ckeep their grasp on money and power,\u201d and that the \u201csystem\u201d is designed to foster hatred and to \u201cscramble the middle class.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMan, I think most white people and black people are great people,\u201d Barkley said during CBS\u2019 coverage of Saturday\u2019s March Madness games. \u201cI really believe that in my heart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Barkley then continued to argue that our political system is set up to protect the power and wealth of those in government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut I think our system is set up where our politicians, whether they\u2019re Republicans or Democrats, are designed to make us not like each other, so they can keep their grasp [on] money and power,\u201d Barkley said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey divide and conquer,\u201d Barkley added, saying that people are \u201cstupid\u201d to follow politicians who create issues in communities they \u201cdon\u2019t live in.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI truly believe in my heart most white people and black people are awesome people,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we are so stupid following our politicians, whether they are Republicans or Democrats, and their only job is, \u2018Hey, let\u2019s make these people not like each other. We don\u2019t live in their neighborhoods. [We\u2019ve] all got money. Let\u2019s make the whites and blacks not like each other; let\u2019s make rich people and poor people not like each other; let\u2019s scramble the middle class.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI truly believe that in my heart,\u201d Barkley concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.7325581395349\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Charles Barkley said that politicians are driving racial divisions for political gain.<\/p>\n<p>Fact-check: true. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F7B4YMA5zk\">pic.twitter.com\/F7B4YMA5zk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Haworth (@ighaworth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\/status\/1378549421743468546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>This isn\u2019t the first time Charles Barkley has made statements which appear to counter the political agenda of sports leagues like the NBA. In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/charles-barkley-shaquille-oneal-push-back-on-narratives-in-breonna-taylor-case\"><span>September 2020<\/span><\/a><span>, Barkley \u201c<\/span><span>pushed back on a lot of the outrage that racial activists have been fomenting \u2026 over the death of Breonna Taylor, noting that the case, while tragic, did not belong in the same category as the death of George Floyd.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s bad the young lady lost her life, but, you know, we do have to take into account that her boyfriend did shoot at the cops and shot a cop,\u201d Barkley said. \u201cSo, like I said, even though I\u2019m really sorry she lost her life, I don\u2019t think that we can just say we can put this in the same situation with George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, I just don\u2019t believe that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That same month, Barkley <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/charles-barkley-blasts-fools-pushing-defund-the-police-who-are-black-people-supposed-to-call-ghostbusters\"><span>slammed<\/span><\/a><span> the \u201cfools on TV\u201d who were pushing the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement, saying that black people need police \u201cwhen we have crime in our neighborhoods.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe have to really be careful on these, you know, I hear these fools on TV talking about \u2018defund the police\u2019 and things like that,\u201d Barkley said. \u201cWe need police reform and prison reform and things like that because you know who ain\u2019t going to defund the cops? White neighborhoods and rich neighborhoods.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the \u201cFinal Four Show\u201d on Saturday, former NBA star and \u201cInside the NBA\u201d\u00a0analyst Charles Barkley said that politicians intentionally fuel racial divides in order to \u201ckeep their grasp on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311645,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-147.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Charles Barkley: Politicians Fuel Hatred Between \u2018Whites And Blacks\u2019 To \u2018Keep Their Grasp\u2019 On \u2018Money And Power\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-147.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Charles Barkley: Politicians Fuel Hatred Between \u2018Whites And Blacks\u2019 To \u2018Keep Their Grasp\u2019 On \u2018Money And Power\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}