Strange: Charles Barkley compares himself to Paula Deen...
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ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta) – Hall of Famer and current NBA analyst Charles Barkley admitted Thursday to using racial slurs with his friends.
Commenting on Los Angeles Clippers’ Matt Barnes using the “N” word on
Twitter and the Miami Dolphins bullying investigation on TNT’s “Inside
the NBA,” Barkley stated he will continue to use the racial slur around
his friends and that white people should not dictate how he talks.
“I’m a black man. I use the ‘N’ word,” Barkley said. “I’m going to
continue to use the ‘N’ word with my black friends, with my white
friends. They are my friends.”
Barkley compared the current debate to the controversy surrounding Paula Deen, who admitted using the racial slur previously.
“This debate goes back to the Paula Deen thing, where they’re like,
‘Black people use it amongst themselves, it’s in rap records,’” Barkley
said. “Listen, what I do with my black friends is not up to white
America to dictate to me what’s appropriate and inappropriate.”
Barkley has never bought in to the whole "political correctness" thing and for that I applaud him! I find it curious that Barkley does not find the word in question to be vulgar. However, far too often I hear people, men and women of all races, dropping the "F bomb" without so much as a second thought. Vulgar language is vulgar language regardless of who is using it.
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