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Hall of Fame member Charles Barkley has indicated that he would like to punch some black people in the face who support Donald Trump. Barkley was responding to comments made recently by the former president that suggested the black community would embrace his infamous mugshot.
“When I took the mug shot in Atlanta, that mug shot is No. 1,” Trump said at the Black Conservative Federation’s annual Honor Gala. “You know who embraced it more than anyone else? The black population.”
“It’s unbelievable. Black people walking around with my mugshots!
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Trump received applause at the Black Conservative Federation event for his remarks. NBA analyst Charles Barkley, however, didn’t appreciate the message.
And he downloaded.
“First of all, I’ll just say this: If I see a black person walking around with a Trump mug shot, I’m [gonna] punch him in the face,” the original Dream Team member told CNN’s Gayle King.
King’s gentle reminder that he would face assault charges was no deterrent to Barkley.
“I’ll save myself and go celebrate,” he joked.
“If I see a black person walking around with a mugshot of Trump, I will punch him in the face.” – Charles Barkley pic.twitter.com/g8sbf4AEMy
— Terrible announcement (@awfulannouncing) March 4, 2024
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There is some truth in Trump’s statement
Barkley continued his tirade against Trump for the mug shot remarks.
“If I had been at that conference I would have gotten up and left. It was an insult to all black people,” she insisted. “Compare the history of black people, when we were discriminated against, to his situation: first of all, he’s a billionaire and they’re prosecuting him for things that he did wrong.”
Luckily, those in attendance at the gala aren’t as easily triggered as Charles Barkley seems to be. Furthermore, there is an element of truth in what Trump said.
Craig Scott, a man freed from prison in 2019 under a criminal justice reform bill signed into law by Trump, said the Republican’s mugshot gives him more “street cred” among those who have dealt with deal with the justice system.
In a Newsweek op-ed Scott, who described himself as a ‘Black Robinhood,’ supported Trump’s “repeated run-ins with the law, and what appears to be an unjust obsession with catching and disproportionately punishing him for his so-called” crimes,” reminds many of us of what was done to us.”
“He has literally been in my shoes. No other president can boast that,” Scott added. “And believe me, he will brag about it.”
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