Posted on 02/19/2008 5:19:44 AM PST by abigail2
Charles Barkley Must Apologize For ‘Fake Christians’ Remark Or Face Suspension, Says Rev. Peterson
Former NBA star and TNT basketball analyst Charles Barkley attacked Christian conservatives Friday on CNN’s The Situation Room news show, referring to them as “fake Christians” and “hypocritical” people. Barkley has endorsed Barack Obama and has a problem with conservative Republican stances against abortion and homosexual marriage. He repeatedly told CNN anchorman Wolf Blitzer “I’m pro-choice” and “I’m for gay marriage.” Conservative radio talk show host Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is calling on Barkley to apologize for his bigoted remarks or face pressure for TNT to suspend him.
“If a white conservative Republican commentator called liberal Christians who support Obama and Hillary ‘fake Christians’ he would be publicly repudiated by the liberal press,” said Rev. Peterson. “Barkley is getting a pass because he’s a black liberal Democrat attacking Christian conservatives. The man is a bigot and has no moral character. He should apologize for his remarks.”
Since the early 90’s Barkley has had a checkered record. In two separate incidents he was reportedly arrested and charged with assault and disorderly conduct for allegedly throwing one man through a plate-glass window and breaking another man’s nose. In 1991 he allegedly spat on a young girl in New Jersey while trying to go after a heckler. He’s also been caught on tape saying, “I hate white people.”
“I can think of at least four white public figures who have been fired or suspended for comments deemed offensive to blacks including: Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.); shock jock Don Imus; Dune “DOG” Chapman; and The Golf Channel’s Kelly Tilghman. Despite making public apologies, all these people were mercilessly hounded and excoriated by the liberal press. So, where’s the demand for an apology and suspension of Barkley for his offensive comments about Christian conservatives?” asked Rev. Peterson.
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is the founder and president of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny. He's also the host of “The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show.” For more information, visit www.bondinfo.org
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You mean like when he wrote that "everyone knows that most of Black America is immoral, dependent and weak"?
Who visits whores and feels entitled to question the faith or morality of others?
Chuck was a fat, lazy, fake basketball player.
Yes!
OK, gotcha.
Charles Barkley, the ultimate blabber mouth.If it weren’t for his God given talent to play basketball he’d be nowhere.
Just ‘cause he can shoot hoops, doesn’t mean he’s professor. Probably got his degree in b’ball.
The guy hates whites. He likes gays. Does he like gay whites?
Just asking.
Rush had mentioned Barkley at some point, probably played golf with him in a pro-am tournament. Along with some Barkley comments and many thought great another conservative celeb. But Barkley was just a foul mouthed NBA player whose biggest claim to fame was spitting on a young girl at an NBA game. Even if he voted republican, you can have him, I don’t want him on my side.
Then you are as big a fool as he.
That would be the DEMOCRAT primary.
Lets see...what percentage of blacks voted for Bill Clinton? I think it was in the 90%’s.......
You may shill for JLP all day long (and often do) but he has zero influence in his own community. Fronting him as a 'conservative' mouthpiece just so you can say that what he says can't be racist because he is Black might make you feel better but it will do nothing but drive Black Americans further away.
JLP comes off as a nut case with insane statements about Jesse Jackson wanting to have him killed and the filing of frivolous (and failed) lawsuits against Jackson. Let's not forget the hugely unsuccessful 'National Repudiate Jesse Jackson Day' campaign.
Your guy is nothing but a sideshow who looks for the spotlight by issuing the odd absurd imflammatory statement.
Abby—wtc911 is an angry man with an axe to grind against Rev. Peterson. He has routinely come on this forum with unsubstantiated, false statements, and arrogantly acts as if he knows the truth about incidents he knows nothing about. He’s never been able to refute anything, except in his own mind. Pay no mind to this disrupter and keep moving forward. You’re doing a great job.
You accuse me of false statements, which ones specifically? I quote JLP accurately.
His lawsuit against Jackson was rejected by a jury (prove me wrong).
He is on tape as telling Hannity that he thinks JJ will try to have him killed (prove me wrong).
He wrote that the 'immoral' Blacks in NOLA turned the Dome into a ghetto rampant with robbery, rape and murder; none of which was true (prove me wrong).
And, he has written that 'everyone knows that most Blacks in America are immoral and weak' (prove me wrong).
If it were not for regular outrageous 'press releases' and folks like Hannity or WND using him to make statements that they are too smart to say themselves, nobody would know who JLP is.
Jesse Lee Peterson tells the truth. He does not hurt the black community, but the immoral behavior of too many blacks hurts the black community. In fact you, by attempting to degrade great Americans like JLP with your petty jealousy--YOU hurt the black community.
There was nothing "failed" about Rev. Peterson's lawsuit against Jesse Jackson/Rainbow-PUSH. The jury deadlocked for three days, and the verdict ultimately went against him aided by the presence of a defense attorney in the jury with sympathies for Jackson, who convinced several jurors to vote against the conviction. BTW, the jury ended up hung on the assault charge against Jackson's son, Jonathan.
The truth about Jesse Jackson and his arrogant, outrageous, thuggish way of doing "business" was revealed clearly in the trial. In fact, Rev. Peterson's legal team, Judicial Watch, published a great expose on Jackson's corrupt shakedown tactics using information obtained at that trial. A "failure" is when you back down and don't fight the good fight. That court proceeding could only be labeled a "failure" by a biased individual with an agenda. wtc, I'm talking to you...
Rev. Peterson indeed told Sean Hannity, a member of BOND's Advisory Board, that he feared for his life after taking on Jackson, knowing Jackson's past modus operandi and dealings with violent street thugs. In addition, Rev. Peterson had received numerous threats during the time of the Jackson trial.
Regarding the Dome, immoral blacks did turn it into a ghetto. Didn't you watch TV during Katrina? Contrast the dependent, lawless behavior of a great many New Orleans residents during Katrina (black) to the Cajun response (the Cajun culture puts a premium on self-reliance, and the response of Mississippi residents to the same storm. wtc--you can only be blind because you refuse to see! You and the other racist apologists for bad black behavior are the reason that things aren't improving much in the black community. You must face your failings before you can overcome them. Perhaps you should start reading a little Frederick Douglas, Dr. King or Booker T.
Re most blacks in America being immoral and weak, it's easily provable: 68% babies out of wedlock, and (drumroll please....) 90% vote Democrat!
You've been refuted, so go crawl under your rock again and wait for Rev. Peterson's next public statement!
Didn’t he used to be a “conservative Republican?”
Barkley has in the past made anti Chinese slurs against an NBA basketball player, and has mocked the Mormon religion...while saying in the same breath that the Imus remarks were “hurtful.”
That’s what I thought, many years ago.
Item two...Nothing failed about your boss' lawsuit against Jackson? Nice spin. Peterson lost in a jury trial. There is no almost won. You pretend that the action was meant to expose Jackson. Strange that a large part of it was a request for money. You claim that the jury was 'persuaded; by a defense attorney (and suggest that he was in the deliberation room with them). The truth is that a jury of Americans did not find merit in your boss' claims and he lost.
Item three...If you don't see the farce in your boss' drama-queen performance on Hannity that Jackson will have him killed ("Sean, if something happens to me let the world know...") then you really are lost. btw...thanks again for admitting that my statement was accurate.
Item four...Your boss wrote without any evidence at all that blacks had turned the Dome into a ghetto of 'rampant rape and murder' (again thank you for admitting that what I said is true and accurate). The undisputed truth is that there were no rapes and no murders. Stating the truth makes me an apologist? Very leftist of you Patrick.
Finally, you state pregnancy stats to support your boss' claim that "EVERYBODY knows that MOST Blacks are immoral and weak" (again, thank you for admitting that I quoted him accurately). You might have a case if MOST Black Americans were young women but they aren't, are they? And your assertion that voting for a democrat proves that anyone is immoral and weak is childish.
Thank you again Patrick for supporting all my statements about your boss. Have a nice day.
wtc—All of your brainpower and argumentative juices given in the service of attempting to destroy the messenger because you cannot handle the message he brings. And at the end of the day you are left with the cold, hard reality that the black community is in a worse position (by far) morally than they were 50 years ago. The one fix for this catastrophe is the truth that will set us free, and good ole wtc has set himself up as the gatekeeper who refuses to let the truth past his gate to the people who need to hear it, understand it, and let it change their lives. What a sad man you must be.
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