Actually, hearing college-educated Black basketball players is a pleasure for me. (Even Charles Barkley, especially Charles with his idiom is intelligent and entertaining). But we have a serious problem now that's only going to get worse. Corporate America is constantly streamlining their employment rolls, even of us underperforming white-collar workers. They have no place for totally uneducated, unskilled labor--they just sub-contract it, outsource it, or automate it.
Illegals, who work with no benefits, no minimum wage, and no Social Security just prove the old adage:
"The true minimum wage is the same as it's always been--zero"
I agree. Listening to someone like David Robinson was refreshing.
Then you get the Commissioner of Basketball saying that the league has a "hood" reputation, and people had the gall to call his comments racist!
HELLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
As for Charles Barkley, I do not agree with much of what Charles Barkley says, I think he is crude and mean, but I also get the impression he is honest, and well spoken. I loved it when I heard him say "I am not a role model. I am a basketball player." It is nice to have both (in hockey, someone like Raymond Bourque as an example, and there are other atheletes who might qualify) and you wish they would all conduct themselves as role models by default, but that is not the case.
I think he was also a conservative at one point, may still be.